Thread: Al Mohler: All Babies dying in infancy go to heaven
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Old 07-01-2008, 12:30 AM
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Originally Posted by DMcFadden View Post
(4) Some are definitely saved (such as baptized infants), but we do not know about the rest. This has been the position of some Calvinists, such as FrancisTurretin, Herman Hoeksema, and several of the older Reformed theologians.
I would suggest that this is the proper meaning of the confessional statement concerning "elect infants" as determined by the usus loquendi of the 17th century, and that Dr. Daniel's fifth option is in fact a 19th century sentimentalist view imposed on the Confession.
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