Augustine answered this by saying the man revived long enough to make it very clear to Augustine he was extremely unhappy with what he had done. A couple of days later the gentleman died. We assume that everyone wants to go to heaven. That is a faulty assumption.
We Orthodox never had that burden. We never believed that merciful God would simply create people to destroy them or to punish innocent children for not being baptized by sending them to hell! They have no deeds to be judged on, so they are innocent.
As FK once wrote, of the billions and billions of people who have walked this earth, if this was true don't you think you would be able to find a sinless man? Abraham thought for sure there should be some righteous people in Sodom.
But those of the Protestant/Baptist sola fide persuasion believe that, in order to be saved, one must believe. Thus, unbaptized children, by necessity, must go to hell because they cannot believe.
There are all sorts of Protestant/Baptists with all sorts of ideas. THIS Reformed Baptist believes that God saves people according to His will and good pleasure. He saves them by His grace and mercy alone and justify that salvation based upon the death of His Son. Whether you're an aborted baby or a 95 year old man who, on his death bed accepts the Lord, everyone comes to God in the same fashion. We are instilled with His faith and mercy through grace.
Pride is a terrible self-destructive thing.
As FK once wrote, of the billions and billions of people who have walked this earth, if this was true don't you think you would be able to find a sinless man? If he did, then he is wrong. Unbaptized infants who die are innocent because they never get to walk on earth and do evil things.
Abraham thought for sure there should be some righteous people in Sodom
There was — one.
THIS Reformed Baptist believes that God saves people according to His will and good pleasure. He saves them by His grace and mercy alone...
You mean by His loving grace and mercy?
Whether you're an aborted baby or a 95 year old man who, on his death bed accepts the Lord, everyone comes to God in the same fashion. We are instilled with His faith and mercy through grace
Infants have no faith, so they cannot be saved. You basically proved my previous observation that Protestants/Baptists by necessity believe all infants who die (whether baptized or not) go to hell. Isn't that the so-called Reformed theology, HD?