If all babies go to heaven when they die, then how is that fair to people who have lived?
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Heron, I love you, but this is touchy.\n\nI've lost 3 babies.  I do believe that they are in heaven because they are innocent.\n\nAs a mother who has lost them, I see no "great fortune of dying in childhood."\n\nLogically, I know their safety and security is not really your point.  And that you're not really saying that it's good that they died.\n\nThe difference is that babies, and children, don't sin.  They're not old enough to make the decision to seek God or to reject Him.\n\nMy understanding is that God doesn't want anyone to go to hell.  That's why He gave so much for our redemption.\n\nThat He doesn't require those too young to do what is necessary to receive redemption is not only fair, but gracious and merciful.\n\nThat He gave His Own Son to offer us the gift of salvation is not only fair, but gracious and merciful.
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Maybe because there's not enough room on this earth for us all to live. Maybe it's away to weed us out. Sounds like a fair way to me. Of course til it's my time. Then it wont seem so fair. What is time compared to eternity. It's really such a short time. No matter how long we live. It's not how long but how we live while we are here. Our future after death is guaranteed through Jesus if we only have faith as small as a mustard seed. It's so hard to lose a loved one. I believe I will be with mine ,young and old in heaven. Hope to see ya there and maybe laugh about this.When we have a greater understanding. That our earthly minds just isn't capable of understanding.
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Just think my dear freind, why does a just born die, why does a bad person live long, why does some ppl die young and some get tourtured thro out life and why does some get all good things in life, what decides who should be born where & why, how should he/she live. Can we  just say its God who decides it? But what makes him to decide? How can that happen. If there is no concept of rebirth and Karma, why does God gives life to a baby and takes back its life in a day or two, for some its 10-20 yrs, and for some who live 100 yrs, whats the core of this?Its Karma and rebirth which explains the logic of this.
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First - your assumption that life is unfair is not correct.  Our lives are exactly what we make them to be.  We are given choices and if we choose a path that makes it more difficult than we'd like, that is a result of our choice, not some ethereal "unfairness."  \n\nBill Gates has millions of dollars.  I don't.  Is that unfair?   No, he made his choices, I made mine.  I have a life that is worth 100x100 times more than all the money he has because God blesses my life.  I have the most precious things I could have, God as my light, my husband as my life partner and four children who challenge me to be a better mom every day.  Who could ask for more?    \n\nEternity in heaven will be beyond anything our finite minds can imagine.  If you think it is unfair here, then you have to have faith and know that you know that you know it will NOT be unfair in Heaven.  Why?  Because God promises that it won't be.  He wants each of His children to be prosperous and content in ALL things.  My finite mind can only imagine what those ALL things are in Heaven.  Frankly, I can hardly wait.  But God has more work for me to do here, so let's get to it . . . . .
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Now you are free to live and full and happy unimpaired life. \n\nEnjoy it my friend.\n\nAll a person has to do is look at a child and you can blatantly see right there in front of you that the child is innocent. Right from their little toes to the tips of their hair. Seriously...Original sin?\n\nYou really think God (if he exists) would be that mean as to start us off in life with a ticket to hell that can only be reversed by baptism...So what happens to all the babies who die in childbirth, or coat death before they can be baptized...Are they burning in hell?\n\nCause if they are, then that just furthers my conviction that if there is a God, he's a megalomaniac bully with a *cough* 'God-complex'...Yes I did just pull that pun, see me I'm funny...right?
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GOD IS ALWAYS FAIR, YOU JUST HAVE TO KNOW AND HAVE FAITH THAT EVERYTHING ON THIS EARTH HAPPENS FOR A REASON. THE BIBLE SAYS BELIEVE IN ME MY SON, JESUS AND THAT HE DIED ON THE CROSS SO THAT ALL MAY BE SAVED AND REPENT OF YOR SINS. THEN YOU WILL BE DELIVERED NO MATTER INDIAN, WHITE, BLACK ,PURPLE. JEWS OR GENTILE.
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lol babies come from heaven.
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A good question indeed. Why do children die? While asking, why are people born with major disabilities? Why do people constantly suffer in this planet? Why do bad things continue to happen, even though there is suppose to be a loving God? \nThis all depends on your faith. Biblically, God created Adam and Eve in perfection. No diseases, no suffering, etc. They lived in a paradise, with no worries about food and drink. They were told to multiply. So all the newborns afterwards should have enjoyed this fantastic way of life. Unfortunately, because of Satans lies, they disobeyed God, got kicked out of paradaise, would have to toil hard for their fruits, Eve's childbearing pains would increase a hundred fold, and they would "die."  This all came to be true for them. Sure they lived to about 900 years, but they did eventually die. From that point, all their offspring would be imperfect, and be subjected to all forms of misery. \nHere we are today, far from perfect. Our world system is flawed causing great hunger and suffering. Most accidents can be avoided with proper education and direction, but since this is sometimes not practiced, accidents do happen. We still die. \nThe Bible though shows that death is the price we pay for our great sin. Death is also a deep sleep with no memories, no feelings, no concept of time. It's not some netherworld of suffering or delight. In Revelations, God promises a great resurrection of pretty much all those who have died. This resurrection will be in much better conditions, and with new healthy bodies. We will then have 1000 years to reach that state of perfection that God wants. Then we will be tempted by Satan again. Some will follow Satan, even in the best of conditions, and will have to be destroyed for good. The rest will then live in eternity as God had wanted it to begin with. \nSo why go through all this trouble. Supposedly it's to prove to all the angels and people that God's way is the only way. Are we at the last days, I can't really say. Time will tell.\nAnother theory is reincarnation. We came to these bodies to experience life in different ways. We die, then come back later, born again in a new life. Over and over again. Kind of like the movie "the Matrix," were life is like a dream. If you have an accident, get a disease, or are killed, you die and go back to home base, take a break, then come back again when you're ready. Who's to say what's right.
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Animals do not go to heaven because they have no soul. They just cease to exist. Apparently, we do not need pets in heaven since only our souls go there. New born babies do have a soul and go to heaven because they are completely innocent.
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those who hope that they will go to heaven don't feel of death because they are expecting a better life .\nbut those who have no hope at all like being alife
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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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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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I do not believe that heaven exists as a place that you go after you die.  I think that Heaven is a myth based on a desparate desire for people to live forever, like gods, which is part of almost every religion and has been for thousands of years.  \n\nThere is nothing new about wanting eternal life and a semblance of omnicience.  Power and knowledge are the two things that humans want more than anything, so it makes sense taht we would create a myth which involves us living forever and gaining a deep understanding of the universe after we die.
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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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My opinion Only mind u. But Heven, if u want to use what we call politicly correct word. But, Heaven is something that we attain. or is attainable. but its attainable through our actions, dedication and hardwork. Just as jesus did. We live a series of lifetimes. that number can be 1 or infinete. But, the goal is to Reach HEAVAN. the way we do that is...well, lets look at it as SCHOOL. In school the object is to graduate. Heaven exist but its something we all have to graduate too. Now GOD in his infinite wisdom has give all of us the curriculum. that is to do the right thing. follow all the laws. So, since its like a school setup. your preachers or rabbi's or whatever, is the teachers. Its our duty to get up each day go to school follow the lesson plans, follow the rules set buy the schools, follow the creed of the school. do all of our assignments and homework. If we do these things, as put forth. We will graduate to the next grade. If we don't do these things as set forth. Then the consequences is. We get sent back to do that grade all over again. Well, in life we live lifetime like Grades. If we do all the right things as set forth for us. By Both Jesus and GOD. then, with each lifetime we potentually move on to the next grade or level. Assuming that we do this for 12 grades Then. someday we GRADUATE. When we pass on from one lifetime to another. we enter a holding area u may call it. that area is basiclly a holding area of conselors and Tutorers. There we are Consoled and Tutored assuming even there we are paying attention Many or most of us don't pay attention. But, weather u are or not. u will be sent back into another life form. Either as one grade closer or as the same grade. Now these grades or lifetimes can be many, throwing out some number it can be Thousand of lifetime. if u don't know Soul are OLD very OLD. some souls can be over 50 billion years old. But because GOD love us all. and because GOD believe in us all. He give u all the lifetimes to get it right. to graduate. and when u do decide to listen, do the curriculumn and GRADUATE. Then u will enter a place call Heaven. That place is beside GOD. Actaully Co-Creating with GOD. So, Heaven can be here right on earth, But it is an assemelation of the larger picture. And Hell if there is such a thing. is the woe's of not following the lesson plan. Like the punishment u get for not doing the school work or not turning in your homework assignment. and all the ramification of that.  Sorry for babbling. Hope this shedded some light.  Of course this is just my views. and is not to be Believd.
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Yes, because Jesus Christ conquered physical death when he was resurrected, ALL people everywhere will be resurrected too and receive glorified and perfect bodies.  It is His gift to the world.  What happens next to all of us with our glorified and resurrected bodies is the question.  We will then all be judged according to our works.  It will be a perfect judgement based on the amount of knowledge we had and what we did with it.  Then we will all be separated into a degree of glory that we can handle and that we deserve.  There are many layers of what is traditionally known as heaven and hell, and we will all get exactly what we know we deserve.
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Well, Mark, there's no uniform perspective on the afterlife among Christians.  I'll give you my perspective, which is that of an evangelical, non-denominational Christian.  I believe that 2 Corinthians 5:8 tells us the souls of believers will go to Heaven immediately after death and we will retain consciousness at all times.  An unrighteous person who has not accepted Jesus Christ goes immediately to a place Jesus called "torments" after death (Luke 16:23).  The unrighteous dead also retain full consciousness.  At the Rapture of the Church, the bodies of the righteous will be resurrected and reunited with their souls, which are in Heaven (1 Thes. 4:13-16).  Upon being resurrected, these bodies will be made immortal.  These immortal beings will co-rule with Jesus as kings and judges (although some will serve as priests or teachers), over those who survive the 7-year Tribulation and their future children (Rev. 6-19).  Jesus will hold an absolute monarchy, however.  There will be no kings higher than He.\n\nThe souls of the unrighteous remain in "torments" for 1,000 years after Jesus Christ's return to earth; at that time, their bodies are also resurrected, reunited with their souls and they are judged by Jesus according to the works they have done.  This is known as the "Great White Throne Judgement."  Since no one can be justified without faith, all are thrown into the "Lake of Fire," which I believe destroys the person forever; other Christians believe the punishment goes on forever, but I disagree with this.  (See Rev. 20:11-15).\n\nI am very involved with God; I view my relationship with God to be intensely personal and I feel as if He's more than a Master to me -- I feel He's my friend, too; I read the Bible daily, pray many times in a day (spontaneously, not at a set time), and evangelize to non-believers when I get the chance.  I attend Church at least once per week; twice if I'm in need.  I occasionally serve on the telephone prayer line for my Church, which has two nationally televised tv shows per week.  I have a secular job, although I have been praying for a new job with a Christian mission or other type of employer.\n\nI hope this helps.  Let me know if you need more information, I wasn't sure how detailed you wanted me to get.