This is a touchy subject as I attempt to address it. Ppl readily claim and usher babies into the presence of God at the point of death. They quoted David from 2 Samuel 12 where he said But now that he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I’ll go to him, but he will never return to me.” [vs 23] Now, they claim that David is stating when he dies he will go to be with his child who is in the presence of God. However, they are ignoring what he wrote is Psalm 51:5 Indeed, I was guilty [when I] was born; I was sinful when my mother conceived me. Then also in Psalm 58:3-5 The wicked go astray from the womb; liars err from birth. They have venom like the venom of a snake, like the deaf cobra that stops up its ears, that does not listen to the sound of the charmers who skillfully weave spells. So, why would David contradict himself by saying what he did in 2 Samuel 12:23 when he wrote what he did in Psalm 51 & 58?
Now, let us examine 2 Samuel 12:23. No doubt David loved his son. So much so, he laid in the street, would not eat or clean himself up. No doubt he struggled with God in prayer, begging Him to be merciful to him and his son. It was only after he found out the child had died he got up and cleaned himself up and ate. His fellow companions were fearful of telling him of his child’s death, thinking he might do something drastic. They marveled that he got up and bathed and ate after hearing the horrible news. When you examine David’s words, you can tell he is referring to the grave, not the presence of God. Just like the husband desires to be buried beside his wife and vice versa, like the father and/or mother desiring to be buried beside their child, this was what David meant.
When you examine the Bible, you can read it affirming babies being born dead in Adam. Paul wrote in Romans 5:12 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, in this way death spread to all men, because all sinned. Adam represented his posterity, the whole human race. When he fell, all mankind fell, being in Adam. Paul also wrote in Romans 3:23 For all have sinned and fall short of theglory of God. Everybody was in Adam when he fell. You can see this federal headship teaching in Hebrews 7:9,10 And in a sense Levi himself, who receives tithes, has paid tithes through Abraham, for he was still within his forefather when Melchizedek met him. Babies are born dead in Adam, as his guilt was transferred to them, and are guilty. Romans 6:23a says For the wages of sin is death, so if babies are born sinless, how can they taste death, when the wages of sin is death? They could not die if they are born sinless, yet millions have sadly been aborted, died in infancy, died via a miscarriage, &c. I will also give you For just as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.[1 Cor. 15:22]
Now, let us examine one more place before I close. “Now go and attack the Amalekites and completely destroy everything they have. Do not spare them. Kill men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.’ “[1 Samuel 15:3] God gives Samuel the words to give to King Saul. God tells Saul through Samuel to completely obliterate the Amelikites. To not leave one of their people alive. He even said to kill infants and children. These ‘innocent’ children ppl call them, God commanded them to be killed by His own ppl. If these babies were viewed as being innocent in God’s sight, then He would be cruel to command the slaughter of innocent blood. In other words, God is commanding them to murder ppl. However, seeing babies are not innocent in His sight, they stand before Him guilty. We know that God will do what is right[Genesis 18:25] so if He commanded the slaughter of children and infants, He did what was right.
There is just not enough compelling evidence one way or the other of their eternal destiny. If babies are indeed born innocent, then abortion is the kindest thing a mother could do. They have guaranteed that child’s place with God. However, if they allow them to grow to this mythical ‘age of accountability’, and they die lost…
Ppl who hold to this view that babies go to be with God at their death have just advocated abortion as not being the cruelest thing imaginable, but the kindest act of love. In a roundabout way, they make abortion palatable.
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