Will babies and young children be taken in the Rapture?
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Asked July 01 2013
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Singapore Moses
✿ It is appointed for everyone to die once and after judgement. Babies and the small children will NOT have judgement as they did not have a chance to live and they will NOT get resurrected at all (Heb 9:27) ✿ And so they will live on this earth as a natural children with out a rapture or resurrection, Those who have died as babies will not get into the resurrection at all. ✿ Death is a blunder and an abortion if there is no resurrection of the body to immortality. Death is real (Heb 9:27). It is an enemy (1 Cor 15:24-28. The vindication of God as a perfect Worker and a just Judge requires life after death. The present is too brief to receive justice and meet opportunities that come. Men merely begin a work and leave it undone. Thousands die in infancy. What incompleteness and waste of life if death ends all. Life becomes a hopeless mockery and an infinite series of abortions under these circumstances. But with immortality, all who desire life and continuation of their greatest plans, find life takes on a new meaning (1 Cor 15:19)
S. Michael Houdmann
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The Bible does not specifically say what will happen to babies, infants, and children when the rapture occurs. This causes many Christians to worry that they will be taken in the rapture, and their...
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Rudolph Ferreira
1 Corinthians 7:14 AMP [14] For the unbelieving husband is set apart (separated, withdrawn from heathen contamination, and affiliated with the Christian people) by union with his consecrated (set-apart) wife, and the unbelieving wife is set apart and separated through union with her consecrated husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean (unblessed heathen, outside the Christian covenant), but as it is they are prepared for God pure and clean. In my opinion only the children of believers will be saved
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