[Full Court]

The unbaptized baby does not have ordinary means of salvation applicable to him, i.e. baptism. He only relies on the extraordinary mercy of Christ, sometihng we surely hope for but cannot be assured of.

David was sure. Why can't you be sure?

2 Samuel 12:22  And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether GOD will be gracious to me, that the child may live?

23  But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.

[kosta50]

David was sure. Why can't you be sure?

Peter wasn't. Look where it got him.

[annalex]

Quote-a-rama strikes again.

David does not express any assuredness in this verse; nor is pre-Redemption opinion relevant to what I am or am not assured of.

[annalex]

But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me. (2 Samuel 12:23)

David here is expressing the assuredness of death. The topic is assuredness of salvation of the unbaptized. John 3:5 teaches that baptism is necessary for salvation. Are you really arguing that an Old Testament verse that teaches no theology overwrites the direct words of Christ as he teaches the theology of baptism?