Do aborted infants go to heaven?

Albion

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I've always heard two theories:

1) They weren't alive long enough to commit sin so they automatically go to be with God
2) They weren't alive long enough to have a soul, so nothing happens at all.

I prefer to believe the first one. Especially now that some states seem to allow abortions later and later in the process. You can't tell me that my son, when he was like 20 weeks along and I could feel him kick and respond to me....didn't have life and soul.
Yeh. The Bible refutes both points #1 and #2.
 
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All the people who come to Christ and are born again and bear it to the end are going to be saved.Now, I don't truly know about children and unborn babies, I try to give you my opinion, God knows better, let's humble ourselves and trust the Lord because we have no idea of such things.
How is their salvation any different from an infant's?
 
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What does scripture say?

נֶ֫פֶשׁ S5315 TWOT1395a GK5883756 n.f. Gn 49:6 (so even Gn 2:19 Nu 31:28 1 K 19:2 v. Albr ZAW xvi (1896), 42 SS) soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, appetite, emotion, and passion (Ecclus 3:18; 4:1(×2), 2(×2) 13:12; 14:11);—נ׳ Gn 1:20 +; נָ֑פֶשׁ Gn 37:21 +; sf. נַפְשִׁי Gn 12:13 +; pl. נְפָשׁוֹת Ez 13:18 + 13 times; נְפָשֹׁת Ex 12:4; Lv 27:2; cstr. נַפְשׁוֹת Gn 36:6 + 4 times; נַפְשֹׁת Lv 21:11; נְפָשִׁים Ez 13:20 (but read חָפְשִׁים, v Co Berthol Toy); sf. נַפְשׁוֹתָם 2 S 23:17 +; נַפְשֹׁתָם Nu 17:3 +: —
1. = that which breathes, the breathing substance or being = ψυχή, anima, the soul, the inner being of man: a. disting. from בָּשָׂר: מִנֶּפֶשׁ וְעַד בָּשָׂר Is 10:18; הַנֶּפֶשׁ עִם הַבָּשָׂר Dt 12:23; from שְׁאֵר Pr 11:17; from בֶּטֶן body ψ 31:10. b. both the inner נפשׁ and the outer בשׂר are conceived as resting on a common substratum: אַךְ בְּשָׂרוֹ


Brown, F., Driver, S. R., & Briggs, C. A. (1977). Enhanced Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon (p. 659). Oxford: Clarendon Press.
I do not understand your answers, sorry.
 
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How is their salvation any different from an infant's?

I only try to give you my opinion, as I said, I don't truly know, God knows better.

I used to have many similar question, but God made me to understand that I need to trust Him! Now, I am free, no more questions, only faith and trust.
 
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No one else knows the answer to these questions either. God will do what he will do. He did not share with us every last detail about the nature of the afterlife. Get used to it and you will feel better.
I feel good, because according to me, fetus does not exist as a person.
 
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I feel good, because according to me, fetus does not exist as a person.
That's all right. Not everyone is going to agree on everything, come what may.

My point was simply that you were posing a lot of questions about things about which God has not given us the answers in his holy word. So no one should worry over or even waste time pondering these things that do not pertain to our own lives.

In addition, though, the Bible teaches that the fetus is a person and a creature of God, so if any of us chooses to believe otherwise, that might be a problem. It is worth considering, anyway.
 
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King David spoke of how he would join his infant son in Heaven
the OT concept of the afterlife is not this explicit, there is no hell or heaven, regardless of what your bible translates. David spoke of joining his son without mentioning the place saying "I will go to him, but he will not return to me.", Implicitly, however, this place is Sheol, which is an indiscriminate place of the dead where all pass through and the only concept of the afterlife in the OT.

Sheol is an adobe of the dead however biblical speak it is not equivalent to the NT Hades. In Greek mythology, Hades is the place of the dead where all pass through but in the NT it is a term used for a place where people are judged where we can be saved from and it is contrast with heaven. Sheol, on the other hand, is a mysterious place and biblical speaking it is was largely unknown and reflected more of a position of ignorance than knowledge.

A lot of things were unknowns then that are revealed now, The image of Sheol seems like a closed door that no one knows what's behind it but all must pass through upon death. What is behind it is the path of destruction and the path of life; a path that we choose during our life.
 
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The Bible never, ever, in any place or form, refers to small children in Hell. King David spoke of how he would join his infant son in Heaven and Jesus said that the Kingdom of Heaven was made for little children. The Bible very much supports baby's and small children not yet fully conscious of sin going to Heaven.
And that's because unborn, born and little ones and the mentally unable are all saved the same way as all who are cognizant of good and evil---By Grace!
 
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Actually, you're only a fraction of what your ancestors were. The polyploidy would kill you if you tried to be all that your ancestors were. ;)
I take after so and so. Who do you resemble?
 
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I don't believe that children that die before they make a profession of faith in Christ go to heaven
Every conception is a living human and has a soul.. If it is aborted, it goes to heaven. Where else would it go? Do you think that God would deny it entrance to heaven?
 
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I don't believe that children that die before they make a profession of faith in Christ go to heaven

I do.
God created them and saw them while they were growing in the womb. How can a baby/toddler sin against God when they don't know God?

Your thread title mentions aborted babies: these are babies that are sinned against - why would they be condemned for it?
 
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PLEASE PLEASE think of those reading that do not post... you have NO CLUE about them.. and the REAL pain some of these post can cause.

Hmm how would a judge and not just any judge hold someone accountable to a truth they never heard? How do you judge them? If your were BLIND you would have no sin. You say you see your sin remains. ... I agree with what Christ said.

We need to watch our words. As He said.. we WILL answer for ever idol word "But I tell you that everyone will have to give account on the day of judgment for every empty word they have spoken". Who are you agreeing with? You are with them..

Praise GOD glory to JESUS.. we have no say what so ever here. Our Father is life. Everything He does everything He speaks is life is alive. Two things come together.. life as the WORLD knows.. started. And MAN is going to say.. WHEN..it really started? Something is growing. It is life. Be very careful what side you stand on. For.. one does not have to do anything.. just to agree ..that sin.. like it or not believe or not.. will held to your/our account.
 
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Where do you think David was going to go in order to see his son?
Wherever the Lord is.....
Psa 23:6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.
 
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