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Does God Send Babies to Hell?

One of the reason I love Bible study with children is because they move you places where you would not have otherwise thought.   Today while speaking of the Gospel one of the teens asked the simple question “ If sin is inputted on us from Adam Romans 5:12   then where does a newborn baby go when they die ?” This question was spoken under the pretense that a just God would not send an innocent child to hell. However if sin is inputted to us while still in the womb of the mother Psalm 51:5 ,  58:3  than even a newborn is guilty before God.  And since salvation is found in no one else other than Jesus Christ, Acts 4:12   and a newborn is incapable of understanding the gospel and therefore cannot make a decision for Christ, That being so  wouldn't  it reason that all newborn babies that die will go to hell? My answer is unequivocally NO! However, I am making this statement from the issues of my heart, not from scripture. Fac...

Created Unto Good Works

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For we are his workman ship, created in Christ Jesus unto good work s, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them Ephesians 2:10 Prayers in Pursuit of God Part 11 of a 11 If the only rea son we desire to get closer to God is to keep Him for ourselves, then we are not worthy of this closeness. To think that God called us to Himself so that we could just be in His presence is foolish. When God calls us to Himself it is never for our own sake but to accomplish His purposes. Therefore we can say just as God called Jonah to His purpose for Nineveh and Moses to His purpose for Israel, He has called you and me to accomplish His purposes as well. When considering Ephesians 2:10 it is important to understand that the good works of the above passage are the requirement of God; however they are marked different from the good works that man seeks to accomplish which are as Isaiah 64:6 states seen as “filthy rags” in the eyes of God. The Apostle Paul is say...