Do Babies Go to Heaven?

It appears the answer is Yes, No, Maybe, and that's final. After much thought, consideration and prayer I have decided to blog about this topic. The answers to this question are as varied as the people you ask. No one has convinced me they have been to Heaven, took a look see, and then returned to let us know who is or is not there. Short of this miraculous happening they are all venturing into guess work. First there are who read this blog that have suffered the tragedy of the death of a baby. I have no idea how that must feel but I can imagine it must be heart wrenching. I know two people who have gone through this and I suspect there are many more. The two I am aware of I have become quite fond of over the months here on a Christian forum. To those two and any others I do not know about let me say I am sorry. Not only for your loss and the pain you endured but for your exposure to some of the insensitive statements made by others on that Christian forum. It is my sincere desire that those who have lost a baby will find comfort in this post. There is a Latin term used in the legal profession called pari materia. This simply means of like subject or must be considered together. I believe this is the way the Bible must be read. You can't pick a few verses here and there and not consider the whole. Therefore to reach the conclusions I have come to we have to take the scriptures as a whole. Yes all the way back to the beginning. God created the earth and all in or upon it. God created man(mankind). God looked upon his creation and saw it was good. God being God and therefore perfect saw his creation as perfect. Then and only then did God take a break and rest. Then comes man's fall. The original sin. Man fell prey to the temptation of satan and disobeyed God. Indications are and I believe prior to this they were perfect. Why? Because God would create nothing less. From this original sin came the sin nature we hear so much about. Exactly what is a sin nature. Does having a sin nature mean one has sinned. It does not. It simply means man has the propensity to sin. Man is prone to sin and left to his own abilities will sin. However, to be guilty of sin one must have committed sin. Then there is the sins of our fathers argument. Are we doomed to damnation for the sins of our fathers. There is no scriptural support for this theory. Are we or do we suffer because of the sins of our fathers. Yes and there is plenty of scriptural support for that. But, the suffering takes place here on earth and not in eternal damnation. For example, my great grandfather was born in Tennessee to a wealthy family. One night during a drunken brawl he pulled a knife and killed a man. He fled Tennessee in the middle of the night to avoid retaliation and hanging. He and his family ended up in Alabama. My great-grandfather spent the rest of his life working as a share-cropper on someone else's farm. All of his children and grand-children were share croppers. I believe his descendent's suffered for his sins. Will any of them go to hell for what he did. No. There is no support in the Bible for this kind of thinking. You often hear people saying we must be born again. We must become as little children. What is the significance of this? Don't leave now this is where we get to the babies. A baby is the purest form of human life there is. God formed that baby in the womb. God created that baby. From conception that baby is perfect because God would not create anything less. That baby is born sinless. It has a sin nature but it has committed no sins. So to be born again has a two fold meaning. First being born into the family of God. Second is to become sinless and pure. Think about it. The moment you were saved you were perfect, sinless(because they had been washed away) and pure. Didn't take long for that to change did it. Also Jesus said we must become as little children. What did he mean? We have to return to that pure state. That happens when we are saved. Why did Jesus come to this world? To save the lost. To be the supreme sacrifice for our sins. If we were all like little babies Jesus would not have had to suffer because we would have had no sins. So. God created everything perfect in his sight. That baby was created perfect and without sin. If for some reason that perfect, pure, precious little baby dies where will it spend eternity? Where does anyone perfect and without sin spend eternity. The obvious answer at least in my mind is Heaven. To say anything less is to say God created something that was less than perfect and sin filled. We all know God hates sin. I cannot believe he would ever create something already full of sin. That is something we do ourselves. There is a lot more I wanted to say but time restraints prevent it at the moment. I will probably post more later