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jaf said:
With regard to infants who have died going to heaven, I would direct you to II Samuel 12,when David's infant son born out of his adulterous relationship to Bathsheba dies, In vs. 23 David being God's elect says "I shall go to him,(where?)but he will not return to me." I think this clearly states(at least in this case) that an infant that dies will be in heaven. Quite possibly all infants who die are indeed God's elect.
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I for one among many would have to disagree with your assumptions concerning the interpretation of II Sam 12. To be sure there is nothing in that passage which speaks directly to the matter of the salvation of the dead child. May I suggest that David was not implying (at best) that the child was in heaven, but rather he was referring to the fact that the child was in the grave to which he too would eventually go and from which the child would not return. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/Ponder.gif" alt="" />

There has been much discussion/debate on this subject on this Board alone, never mind throughout history. Doubtless, there never will be universal agreement on the subject, if for no other reason than it is a very emotional one. My response is not meant to further the debate, since I have written more than enough on my view here already, but rather to address the exegesis of the passage itself and to offer another possible and plausible interpretation. [Linked Image]

In His grace,


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simul iustus et peccator

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