(September 15, 2015 at 10:31 am)robvalue Wrote:(September 15, 2015 at 2:54 am)robvalue Wrote: Let me rearrange this question:
For those of you who think dead babies go to heaven, is it in the baby's best interest to kill it before it has the chance to possibly go somewhere other than heaven? Forget for the moment whether or not anyone should actually kill the baby. Just answer from the baby's point of view. If you were the baby, what would you choose? Instant heaven, or this life and only a possibility of heaven?
For those of you who think the dead baby doesn't go to heaven, or has a lesser experience as a result of dying young, I'd be interested to hear what you believe instead.
No one wants to answer this huh?
I don't blame you.
Rob, I will answer. The Bible does not explicitly state this. There are a few passages where one could discern this as highly probable. A baby is incapable of having the knowledge to understand the choices, so I won't play that hypothetical game, but answer from the parent's perspective. Since the ONLY way I know as being described in the Bible for one to be saved and enter the Kingdom of Heaven is to have the knowledge and belief in the work of Jesus Christ, I would say it is not in the baby's best interest to be killed. It may well be the case if that baby dies (by natural or aborted means) that it goes to heaven, but I don't know that. Again, I am not God and I do not have all the answers. As I said before, people don't have children so God can have another soul to win. People have children for themselves. It is in the parent's interest to have the child, raise the child and love the child. They are not thinking about the child's ultimate destiny. Just my perspective.
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