[Missey_Lucy_Goosey]

This discussion started with the question of how a just God can kill innocent children. The Calvinist solution is that there are no innocent children.

To reject that there are no innocent children is to reject the doctrine of Original Sin. Do you reject the doctrine of Original Sin?

St. Augustine based his belief in paedo-baptism on the reality of Original Sin being inherited by each newborn from Adam through the parents, thus no children were "innocent".

[irishtenor]

I do believe that Calvin taught that children who die before an age of accountability (whatever that is assumed to be)are of the elect and will be in heaven. I know that my pastor and I had some disagreements about this. He felt that it was extra-Biblical. And it may be. I am not sure which way I fall on this.

[D-fendr]

thus no children were "innocent".

And thus a just God can kill babies according to Calvinism.

This was my point.