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Yes I do, although I would not say it that way of course. You may also be surprised at all the places in the world where you could find an ATM machine. It is sort of like the Amish. They maybe low tech when it come to their horse and buggy, but they have cell phones. So the world maybe more connected then you think.
You do realise that this requires the Baby to go to Heaven BEFORE it is saved, yes?
Yes, so? Hey why not have an opinion that gives God the benefit of the doubt? Any biblical reason to assume He does otherwise?So the baby gets sent to Heaven before it is raised in a way to ensure it is saved so it will be sent to Heaven?
Why ask me? Would not things be just fine there? I wonder if good bacteria would clean up messes so fast that it would eliminate the need for diapers, and garbage etc etc??
Who knows? I vote the real deal....
No.
No one deserves Heaven. It is His gift.
Not Him...us. We ought to give Him the benefit of the doubt.
No, it is an important principle. Not by works which we have done but by grace are we saved.
I suspect other moms would be needed since the earth mom was not there for the moment.
Consider the alternatives.
Jocularity breeds confusion, doesn't it?
No.
You can tell when an Internet scientist learns something new, can't you?
That's a controversial amendment, especially as the Bible is at pains to point out that we are all born in sin.
It varies according to mental condition and location (access to the Gospel).
That's right ... I'm a sinner saved by grace [through faith].
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Maybe if you changed it to acquiring accountability, it would make more sense?
God does the accounting.
Like walking on water or resurrecting from the dead?
Not really because the idea of determining whether a person has acquired understanding of the concept and its implications isn't a straight dividing line. There is a very large fuzzy grey area extending deep from within the dividing line region into the 'acquired accountability' side. And that has implications for those who have embraced Jesus but haven't done so with sufficient awareness of what they are doing, or for the wrong reasons or for misunderstood reasons, or for reasons to do with their own psychological problems or mental failings, or simply because they are going through a brief phase in adolescence or are scared out of their wits and will try anything - are they all accountable too? In fact, the whole idea of holding someone accountable for eternity for a decision they make during the brief time they are alive and gawping around in amazement at the world they find themselves born into is beyond absurd. It is fundamentally flawed. And wrong.
Is this the God of the Old Testament or the New? Is that the God who happily commits genocide on a whim or is it the God who is a bit more touchy feely and humane? Or is it a God who actually has a better understanding of the absurd portrait you've painted of Him than you do and is staring at you quizzically with His eyebrow raised? Or is it just the God you desperately want to exist so that you can delegate all responsibility for thinking to Him and don't have to worry about all that confusing stuff yourself any more?
No. Those are described in the Bible.
