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How can infants and young children who die, people with special needs, and those who have never heard the gospel be saved?



    
    

Clarify Share Report Asked February 27 2021 My picture Jack Gutknecht

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This question presumes there to be rules for salvation that God must follow. There are no rules for salvation; God does as He pleases. Men of old thought the oldest son was due a double portion of the family estate by virtue of his birth order. That was their custom. It meant nothing to God, who owns it all.. God gave whatever He chose to give to whomever He chose to give it.

Babies who pass from this life having never known anything about anything that has to do with theology, are in the hands of the same God that holds the future of everyone else, whether old, young, or having "special needs." There are no boxes to check with God. These notions only exist in the minds of men.

The scriptures don't offer any rules to be acknowledged for the "right" to live the everlasting life. The commandments given to Moses to give to the people delivered from slavery in Egypt couldn't lead to everlasting life. They were "rules" to live by here in this realm; they couldn't lead to salvation. Without the shedding of blood there is no remission [of sin] Heb 9:22. You can keep the commandments and still die in your sins. It is the shed blood of Jesus on our behalf that God the Father accepted for the forgiveness of our sins. That blood was shed for babies, infants, teenagers, centenarians, sinners of all makes and models.

This notion that you must "accept" Jesus is not the true gospel. The gospel is that Jesus died in place of the souls that the Father will give Him. PERIOD! (John 6:37)

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