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QUESTIONS - What Do Reformed Baptists Believe About Children Who Die In Infancy?

Theology Applied

Right Response Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9801 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Is it possible God regenerates some infants? I'm Baptist, but I don't totally buy into an “age of accountability.” I also really want to trust God's mercy for kids. What are your thoughts?

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Tor Coffee from Tor Coffee. Is it possible God regenerates some infants? Great question.

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I'm Baptist, but don't totally buy age of accountability. Good. You shouldn't buy it.

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But also trust God's mercy for kids. What do you think? Absolutely. I believe John the Baptist was

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regenerate in the womb. He leapt in his mother's womb at the coming of Mary and Jesus in

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Mary's womb. So that, I believe, would be an example. But more importantly than that, if you are

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confessionally Baptist or confessionally Presbyterian

0:57.6

on either side of the aisle, meaning you're 1689 or Westminster, then by virtue of being confessional,

1:04.1

you must believe that there are occasions of regenerate infants, because that's the position, the reformed position when it comes

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to those children who tragically die in infancy. What happens to children who die in infancy?

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There's some theology that gets into the age of accountability. Again, there are multiple wide

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spectrum. And so people have different, you know,

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different subpoints and nuances and things like that. So some people feel misrepresented by this,

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but I'm just giving a generalization. There are some who hold to an age of accountability,

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and they believe that before a child gets to that age of accountability, if they die in their

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youth as an infant or a toddler, a young child before reaching

1:45.5

the age of accountability, they go to heaven. But if you press them on why, they say they go to

1:50.6

heaven because they're innocent, but not because they have a presence of the imputed righteousness

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of Christ. As far as I can tell biblically,

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