Good Golly Miss Molly.
1) Do all who die before the age of accountability go to heaven? No, all who are conceived in iniquity and unbelief are condemned already.
2) As Shakespeare said, Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive. What if babies who die before the age of accountability do not go to heaven, but are condemned as scripture teaches? Not because they have done anything good or bad, but as a consequence of Original Sin, they were made sinners. They did not become sinners when they first sinned after the age of accountability.
3) This cult like advocacy of child sacrifice to save them is an abomination to the Lord.
I agree with Van on many things, but this is absolute error. Babies are not born dead in sin.
Paul clearly taught he was spiritually alive until he learned the law.
Rom 7:7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid.
Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence.
For without the law sin was dead.
9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life,
I found to be unto death.
11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me,
and by it slew me.
Paul is clearly speaking of learning the law as a young Jewish man in verse 7. He said he would not have known what lust is, except the law had said thou shalt not covet.
Paul shows that sin has no power without law. Therefore sin can have no power over little children who do not know and understand between good and evil. This is clearly shown in Deu 1:39 where God allowed the children of the Jews who sinned in the wilderness to enter the Promised Land.
Deu 1:39 Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children,
which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.
The Promised Land is a figure of heaven. The Jews who sinned in the wilderness were not allowed in, but the children who did not know between good and evil were allowed to go in and possess it.
Back to Romans 7, Paul clearly says he was spiritually alive until the commandment came. This is when he learned the law. Upon learning the law and understanding between good and evil he became accountable and was convicted as a sinner. He spiritually died. Paul could not possibly be speaking of physical death here.
Children are not born dead in sin, and they are not held accountable until they learn and understand good from evil.
You are WAY off here Van.
And no, we should not kill children to get them into heaven, that is murder.
