Where do babies' souls go when they die? (I do not believe in purgatory)?
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As far as anyone can tell, there is no such thing as a soul.  When you die, you cease to exist.  End of story.\n\nADDENDUM:  To anyone who answers this question from the perspective that souls exist, you ought to justify your assertions with verifiable evidence or valid argument, not just make unsupported claims, otherwise your response is essentially worthless.  Oh, and quoting from the Bible or the Qur'an constitutes neither evidence nor argument...  :-)\n\nIt is a fundamental principle of rational thought that if you claim something exists, and you want people to believe you, then the onus is on you to provide argument or evidence to support your claim, not on other people to refute it.  The default position is non-belief, in other words.
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There is no scientific evidence that souls exist. The conservation of energy doesn't dictate what form the energy takes. The heat of decay of a body is sufficient to satisfy that law.
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I testify to you that the following words are TRUE and you can find out for yourself by asking God in the name of Jesus Christ. having faith and real intent.\n\nDeath is not the end. Death is really a beginning—another step forward in Heavenly Father’s plan for His children. \nSomeday, like everyone else, your life on Earth will end and your physical body will die. But your spirit will not die. At the time of physical death, your spirit will go to the spirit world, where you will continue to learn and progress. \n\nDeath is a necessary step in your progression, just as your birth was. Sometime after your death, your spirit and your body will be reunited—never to be separated again. This is called resurrection, and it was made possible by the death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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No one goes to heaven when they die.  Only Jesus has ascended to heaven.  All dead, whether saved or unsaved, "sleep" until the resurrections, respectively.\n\n"And why dost Thou not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust..." Job 7:21\n\n"So man lies down and does not rise. Till the heavens are no more, they will not awake nor be roused from their sleep." Job 14:12\n\n"If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, till my change comes." (Job 14:14)  Here we see that Job had some knowledge of the resurrection.\n\n"Consider and hear me, O LORD my God; enlighten my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death..." Psalm 13:3  David compares death to sleep.\n\n"As for me, I will see Your face in righteousness; I shall be satisfied when I AWAKE in Your likeness."  Psalm 17:15  David was aware that the dead IN CHRIST are changed in the twinkling of an eye to become LIKE CHRIST...incorruptible and immortal...when the first resurrection occurs at Christ's return.\n\nThis verse tells us that all dead sleep until the resurrections: "And many of them that SLEEP in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt."  Daniel 12:2 \n\n"NO MAN HAS ASCENDED TO HEAVEN but He who came down from heaven, that is, the Son of Man who is in heaven." (John 3:13)\n\nEveryone else will be resurrected, each in his order, babies included.  Through the miracle of resurrection, God brings back to life those who have died. (Revelation 20:4-5, Ezekiel 37:1-14, I Corinthians 15:20-54, I Thessalonians 4:15-16)\n\nSince Jesus Christ is the only way to the Father, an opportunity to hear and believe and be saved awaits those who resurrected after the millenium (the Great Last Day of the Feast, John 7:37-38, Revelation 21:6) \n\nAll will have the same opportunity to respond to God when all is said and done.  Many have already done so in this present age in which we live.  Some have believed and some have rejected.
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You're thinking about the Catholic Church cult, not actually biblical Christianity, with regard to babies dying before being baptized. You go to heaven if you believe in Christ, and if you are a child, then you will go to heaven because you are below the age of accountability. Focus more on the Bible and not the Catholic Church's contradictory dogma.
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There were also many, many other children born on the same day as your child.  Why should her spirit have necessarily come into yours, and not one of those many others?  I think that's part of where you uncle is wrong.  \n\nSecondly, people's spirits do not linger around this earth.  So in that sense, your uncle is completely wrong.  Once a person dies, their spirit (or soul) goes either to heaven or hell.  This depends on whether they had a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, and accepted Him as their Savior and Redeemer.  If they did, then their soul has gone on to heaven.  If not, then they're in hell.  I don't believe that a suicide automatically goes to hell.  It is all still dependent on the relationship with Jesus.  \n\nAs for your son, don't worry about what your uncle said.  It is superstition to believe that a dead person's spirit would linger around and inhabit the body of a new child.  What would the purpose of that be???  Just put your trust in Jesus Christ, and He'll reveal to you the truth.
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1.  "Free will".  God doesn't punish them.  They get placed in a caotic place where Free will reins.  This free will can be exercised wrong by one of us, causing harm to the little one (ie abuse, abortion, uneducated people caring for them)\n\n2.  Nature.  The other way infants go straight to heaven (they do not pass go or collect $200.00 either) is in natural events.  Again, sometimes it's God punishing us, but mostly, it's a product given by the earth, and we see God in the aftermath...in the peoples faces who are devestaed, and their neighbors faces helping them.\n\n3) Sudden Death syndrom...I'm tired of thinking, so I'll get back to u on this one.\n\nPeace.
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That is something that I have wanted to know for a long time myself~\nBut, there are just things that we will not know until we are there. There are alot of speculations on the subject, and they are understandable but there is no way for us to know exactly. Only Our Father knows that and knows what is going to happen,  even if they don't have souls, I hope there is a special place for them as God has made them so special to us on Earth.
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Everyone in heaven or on their way to heaven are saints. You, me, my deceased grandmother, Mary the mother of Jesus, and Mother Teresa. \n\nCatholics and many other Christians believe in the Communion of Saints where all saints are intimately related in the Body of Christ, a family. When you die and go to heaven, you do not leave this family.\n\nWith love in Christ.
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He does not wanna send any souls to hell.But he gave us all a choice, which is to love Him, and to take His Son as your savior,then ask for forgiveness(from your heart)then you will most likely be with Him in Heaven and no one knows for sure but you might meet up with your loved ones who have gone on before you.That is a great thought,no?
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Nobody knows what happens to us when we die, or this concept of hell or heaven. Well by catholic mythology, i think as long as you live a good life, christian or not, youll go to heaven, or spend a few years in purgatory at the most, because comon, then over half of the world would be going to hell. Heaven would be like some deluxe snob club where only a few members were allowed in.\n\nBut realistically our concept of heaven and hell has grown out of control, its turned into a huge bribe, but hey i guess it works a lot of the time. The jews (the religion christianty evoloved out of) didnt have a strict conept of heaven or hell, they knew to live life good, and that god would punish them in life for unfaithfulness and sometimes the punishment would carry over to those that were close to them. They had some slight concept of bliss and punishment in the afterlife but it didnt consume all the time and thought as it does in christianity. Actually it sounds like it was tampered with somewhat by rulers and writers.\n\nI dont think jesus wants us to suffer, if anything i think hed give us a redo, in a soemwhat reincarntional concept., then again if jesus did exist and was god's son.\n\ndont worry about it so much and just try to live a good life by the golden rule.\n\ndont take naything form the bible literally, most of its to be taken out of context into your own consideration and recieve a message and apply it to your own life.
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Children who have died without Baptism, can only be entrusted to the mercy of God. Indeed, the great mercy of God who desires that all men should be saved, and Jesus' tenderness toward children which caused him to say: "Let the children come to me, do not hinder them," allow us to hope that there is a way of salvation for children who have died without Baptism. All the more urgent is the Church's call not to prevent little children coming to Christ through the gift of holy Baptism. \n\na baby is a person created by God and a baby who's died did have a soul. God, if He is truly the God of love every Christian believes he is, would never forsake one who cannot argue for themselves. \n\nSt. Therese once said "Knowing the loving God that I know, I believe hell is empty"\n\nBy the way, what I've mentioned above is actually Catholic Doctrine. Whatever people may say about limbo is the doctrine stretched to extremes, usually catechists who're not sure about things just exaggerate...I'm a student of theology and this has been one of the topics I'm doing in my thesis...
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All persons are composed of 3 parts, a body, soul, and a spirit.  The body is what you can see now, the soul is the thinking part of you and your spirit is the part that goes on after the body dies.  The spirit is the part of you that experiences heaven or hell.  Some people think that the soul can be reborn into different bodies.  I haven' t determined what I think yet, I'm just gathering evidence from different sources.  I don't think anyone knows for sure exactly.  I think it may be a blend of everything.  I am sure that we are spiritual beings having an earthly experience.
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That question has many answears depending on your believes. You can go to heaven, you can reincarnate in something else, or become nothing after your life cycle ends. There is really no answear to a question like that, for no one knows the answear
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How can someone answer this question if there not even 100% correct.People are giving answers from what they are told to believe. My answer to you is I don't know where someone goes when they die.
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So many people say somany things but it hardly matters if we know the truth, AS u have parents in the similar way God is the universal father of all souls, the live force energy inside ur body is u, when u leave this body this body is treated as dead, when u r inside this body its u doing everything, thinking, seeing eating..etc u look thru this eyes, think with ur mind etc. so u r a soul not this body, this is ur real identity, And God is father of all souls, he is also called as supreme soul(Param athma). When we die we won't go anywhere we again take birth here only. not as animals or anything else other than humanbeings. U only asked where do we go...when we die that means u also know u dont die, u go somewhere, u r a soul, but u forgot ur identity so u put the question with answer in it, It proves soul doesn't die.
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Yes,Of course! According to various religious beliefs, there is definitely a new life after death. The bodies, after death, will be disposed off, but the life in the body, that is the soul, will be born again in another form, either as an animal or a human being again!. there are various instances wherein,some children have spoken of their earlier life with details,as to what he/she was in the previous birth, the location, parents, aquiatances, etc. On physical verification by impartial bodies, these have been found fully factual, and correct.