(04-11-2022, 05:31 AM)Orbit1 Wrote: [ -> ] (04-10-2022, 12:44 AM)K9Buck Wrote: [ -> ]I guess I can get on Google and do my own research but is it YOUR understanding that predestination is the basis of Calvinism? Â
After giving it some thought, I think an argument can be made that predestination is true. What do you think? Can it be true?
I am def not a Calvinist, but it’s not a worthwhile argument to get into. I could list multiple scriptures against it, and could almost tell you what scriptures some might post for it.
Christ died for the sins of the whole world. I’ll leave it at that.
Does everyone that dies in infancy go to Heaven? Â
Does everyone, regardless of anything, go to Heaven? Â
If the answer to the first question is "yes" and if the answer to the second question is "no", then it seems that it's a "good" thing for people to die in infancy or as a small child, right? After all, why risk living a life wherein one can potentially end up in Hell for eternity, right? Â
Does that make sense to you? It doesn't to me. Â
Let me put it another way. Â
Had an infant boy NOT died in a terrible traffic accident he would have grown up to be a Satanist and a mass-murderer. But, since he died as an infant, he gets a free pass to Heaven, right? Â
I'm not so sure. Â
The Bible speaks about there being two types of people, those that are of God and those that are NOT of God. Â
And doesn't the Holy Spirit call "God's people"? Â
It seems that God's people are born, not made. Now I suppose that one may not necessarily know that they are of God, but that doesn't mean that they're not of God. Â
I think it's entirely possible that people who are NOT of God and who die as infants simply cease to exist in the hereafter. To me, saying that ALL infants go to Heaven is sort of like saying ALL people go to Heaven. Â
What some call "predestined" may simply be another way of saying that some people are born of God. Â
I guess I believe that people who were NOT of God and who died as infants do NOT go to Heaven, but I'm willing to be persuaded otherwise.