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To: Dr. Eckleburg
Absolutely ZERO people on this earth today know with certainty the answer to “are babies saved?”

But doesn't your theology teach that babies in the womb are pre-determined by God as either elect or reprobate. And this doesn't change?

5,419 posted on 09/15/2010 8:59:25 PM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: D-fendr
It makes a certain amount of sense that all those children who die in the womb are elect. John the Baptist was.

Perhaps they're not. You don't know and I don't know. But there is nothing in Scripture that says they aren't, and some that says they are.

"I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's belly." -- Psalm 22:10

The RCC catechism (1250) says that unless a parent baptizes their infant, those children cannot be a "child of God." --

"The Church and the parents would deny a child the priceless grace of becoming a child of God were they not to confer Baptism shortly after birth.51

So you have the parents electing their child, and not God.

I haven't found any Scripture for that one.

5,429 posted on 09/15/2010 9:24:07 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg (("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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