The Highway Forums General Discussion Theology Discussion Forum Are those who die young always part of the elect?

I'll grant you that this is probably the most popular way that this text has been interpreted. But it isn't necessarily the only possible one. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/flee.gif" alt="" /> It is just as feasible that the text is saying, that the child is dead and cannot return to life but he (David) will one day die and thus join him, i.e., he too will be put into the grave.

Regardless of which interpretation one chooses, what the text does not teach is the universal salvation of infants who die in infancy. Nor is there any warrant to make David the paradigm of all believers and his dead son as representative of every believer's child. Such interpretations are nothing more than "eisogesis"; a reading into the text of one's preconceived ideas.

In His Grace,