Featured Death before the age of accountability

How many know how many infants have been murdered through abortion since 1973? Answer: 58,586,256*

None of these infants reached the age of accountability, which means none of them knew of Christ and were able to exercise faith in Him.

What does Calvinism do with this fact?

* http://www.nrlc.org/uploads/factsheets/FS01AbortionintheUS.pdf

 

As far as I know that phrase is not used in the Bible, but its principle can be demonstrated.

Paul states that, "where there is no law there is no transgression". Romans 4:15 He also states that, "sin is not charged against anyone’s account where there is no law" Rom 5:13

Now, are infants sinners? Yes. How so? They are self-centered (selfish). The are born, at no fault of their own, "bent-to-self". They are born with a fallen nature.

Now, that being said, they are not transgressors. Transgression requires a knowledge of the law either directly (such as the law) or through the conscience. God's law doesn't charge you with guilt (transgression) without your own volition.

Here's how one dictionary defines "Volition":

Volition is the cognitive process by which an individual decides on and commits to a particular course of action.

We aren't born guilty of Adam's sin, rather we stand condemned because we share Adam's fallen life indwelt by iniquity. There's a difference.

 

Here's more proof:

Romans 3:9 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

Here's another one:

I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. Rom 7:7

 

My position is that all infants who die before the age of accountability are they safe "in Christ". I use two main verses, although there's more to support my position: Romans 5:13* & Romans 5:18**.

My position is that while babies are sinners they are not transgressors* and Christ's atonement has justified these little ones unto eternal life**. They are saved by grace, as we all are, but they can't chose to exercise faith. They are safe in Christ Jesus.

However, I am aware that there are other positions:

1. Since babies are born without sin they will be saved.
2. Since babies are born with the guilt of Adam's sin they will be saved only after infant baptism.
3. Since God knows what choice they would make had they reached the age of accountability,
that will decide their eternal destiny.
4. The eternal destiny of babies depends on the choice of their parents.

 

Yes, and he knows an infant doesn't have the cognitive ability to reason or respond to the gospel call.

I agree....

 

No, Romans chapter five is very clear.

 

Drivel: "silly nonsense"

I would appreciate a little less pretentiousness on your part if you wish to debate me.

 

Actually Adam was saved from the 2nd death, not the 1st death (what you termed "physical death")

The point is people were dying the 1st death because they shared Adam's fallen life indwelt with iniquity. The law, on the other hand, prescribed the 2nd death, which is goodbye to life forever with no hope of a resurrection. To be "under law" brings the 2nd death.....

 

John 11:25 I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me will live (future tense) even if he dies, (i.e., the 1st death)

26 and everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die (i.e., the 2nd death).

 

No, no, no....The "curse of the law" is the 2nd death.

The primary meaning of iniquity is not an act but a condition. As a result of the fall, man by very nature is spiritually “bent,” so that the driving force of his very nature is love of self. Paul defines it as “the law of sin and death” [Romans 7:23; 8:2]. It is this condition that is the basis of all our sinning, and which makes us slaves to sin [Romans 3:9-12; 7:14].

We die because sin brings mortality and death. The 2nd death is God abandonment, which Christ as the Son of Man experienced on the cross. He took our curse, the 2nd death upon Himself.

Everyone who doesn't have Christ is under law....They reject Him because they view themselves as good....