[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

You had me reading eagerly to this point - then you swipe needlessly to bolster the calvinist position ~~ you if anyone can present a rational argument based on the merits of calvinism alone.

Er... I'm a Presbyterian Layman. I am not the Reverend Baptist Daniel Parks.

Rev. Parks wrote the article; I just posted it.

Does God pardon that original sin in unbaptized infants? -or does He fully pardon the sins of those children despite the fact they have not been brough to Christ as Mark 10:14 so clearly presents as His desire? I ask that honestly and seriously - not trying to be a smart alec

God brings His Own to Himself. If -- as John Calvin believed -- He has elected to salvation all those whom He has ordained to die in Infancy, then it logically follows that He effects His election by regenerating them in the womb (as he did John the Baptist and King David, so we know that there are Biblical examples thereof) prior to their death.

As Regeneration is purely divine-monergistic in every case, child or adult, this Regeneration is surely as efficacious as that created in an Adult (who is, admittedly, able to express his newly-wrought Belief in outward verbal confession, as an infant child is not; but such verbal profession of faith is the result of God's monergistic Regeneration, not the cause).

[Revelation 911]

Rev. Parks wrote the article; I just posted it.

my oops - it seemed out of character for you of late

[SoothingDave]

If -- as John Calvin believed -- He has elected to salvation all those whom He has ordained to die in Infancy, then it logically follows that He effects His election by regenerating them in the womb

Why do you think it is "all" those who die in infancy?

It seems to me the consistent Calvinist idea would be that God may elect some and not others, as it pleases Him. Isn't that what you believe about adults? What is it about infants that makes God decide to elect 100 per cent of them?

SD