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St. Augustine believed that children who died unbaptized were damned. [1] In his Letter to Jerome, he wrote, [2]. Likewise, whosoever says that those children who depart out of this life without partaking of that sacrament shall be made alive in Christ, certainly contradicts the apostolic declaration, and condemns the universal Church, in which it is the practice to lose no time and run in ...
Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven. (Matthew 18:1–10) The word translated as converted in the King James Version [1] (Greek: στράφητε, straphēte) literally means 'turn'.
If heaven is a state of supernatural happiness and union with God, and Hell is understood as a state of torture and separation from God then, in this view, the Limbo of Infants, although technically part of hell (the outermost part, limbo meaning 'outer edge' or 'hem') is seen as a sort of intermediate state.
According to Jewish mythology, in the Garden of Eden there is a Tree of life, or the "Tree of Souls", [1] that blossoms and produces new souls, which fall into the Guf, the "Treasury of Souls".
Lutherans [WELS] believe that babies are conceived and born sinful [64] and therefore need to be born again to enter the kingdom of heaven. [65] Through Baptism, the Holy Spirit works rebirth, [66] creates faith in them, and saves them. [67] Although some deny the possibility of infant faith, the Bible clearly teaches that babies can believe ...
''Offering to Molech'' in Bible Pictures and What They Teach Us, by Charles Foster, 1897.The drawing is a typical depiction of child sacrifice. Child sacrifice is the ritualistic killing of children in order to please or appease a deity, supernatural beings, or sacred social order, tribal, group or national loyalties in order to achieve a desired result.
A baby holding the "Petition of the Unborn Babes", 18th century illustration. After the spread of Christianity, an issue emerged: whether it was permissible for a pregnant woman to be baptised before childbirth, due to uncertainty as to whether the fetus would be cobaptised with its mother.
Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back is a 2010 New York Times best-selling Christian book written by Todd Burpo and Lynn Vincent and published by Thomas Nelson Publishers. The book documents the report of a near-death experience by Burpo's three-year-old son Colton.