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To: Dr. Eckleburg; Cronos
Cronos: Calvin does not say children who die in infancy all go to heaven

Dr E:Certainly he does

Calivn says very explicitly that there are babies in hell.

5,652 posted on 09/16/2010 12:32:28 PM PDT by kosta50 (God is tired of repenting -- Jeremiah 15:6, KJV)
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To: kosta50
Calvin says very explicitly that there are babies in hell.

I'll take Calvin at his word...

"I do not doubt that the infants whom the Lord gathers together from this life are regenerated by a secret operation of the Holy Spirit." (Amsterdam edition of Calvin's works, 8:522).

"I everywhere teach that no one can be justly condemned and perish except on account of actual sin; and to say that the countless mortals taken from life while yet infants are precipitated from their mothers' arms into eternal death is a blasphemy to be universally detested."(Institutes, Book 4, p.335).


5,655 posted on 09/16/2010 12:44:48 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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