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I'd be unsurprised to learn we agree very widely in many things -- such as what you said here, preaching to the choir -- once we get past assumptions about what the other person believes.I think the point I was leading to is there is no difference between how one is saved whether competent or incompetent. We are saved by God's Grace.
A baby or even unborn baby or mentally handicapped adult in most cases cannot comprehend Law and Grace. Does that mean they get a special way of obtaining reconciliation with God? No they are saved just as we are by God's Grace. None of our works save us. God initiates the call to salvation. It's by Grace alone we are saved.
Yet some babies do unfortunately die. I asked why do they if Adam's sin is not imputed to them? They die because the wages of sin is death. We all die whether at conception or a long elderly life. We do because of Adam's disobedience.
Yet....."But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them." (Ephesians 2:4-10)
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