re: God Has A Plan For Your Life

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You've typed and preached a lot but you haven't touched my critique at all.

Do aborted children go to Heaven?

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Of course I touched your critique. Here is what I said:

No one is saved apart from Christ, even unborn children. If God so chooses to save a child murdered through abortion, it is His right to do so, and He would do so by imparting saving grace to the child through His Spirit according to His plan of election.

To answer you more succinctly, the answer is both “yes” and “no”.

To expand further, all of God’s elect will go to heaven and there is no reason to assume all children that die are part of the elect. God can save anyone He chooses by imparting a kind of saving faith, even if we don’t understand it entirely. However the normal means that God saves is through the preached word (the gospel message). There is no age of accountability described in scripture.

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If yes, how is it just to expect one group of people to navigate through life, decipher which religion is authentic, and accept Christ while others are given a free, no fail, pass into Heaven?

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I actually agree with your complaint here. If all children who die before some supposed age of accountability go straight to heaven, then it would be more compassionate to kill all children before they have the ability to reject the gospel. I don’t believe there is a biblical warrant for an AOA in the scriptures and it actually stems from an emotional reaction built upon an Arminian theology.

In terms of what is just vs. what is unjust for God, I would just repeat that all deserve damnation and God would be perfectly just to allow all to perish in our sins and be damned, yet He chose to save some through the propitiatory work of Christ on the cross and the regenerative work of the Spirit in the lives of the elect. It’s all the work of God and He gets all the glory.