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Originally Posted by LadyFlynt  Has any one every heard this in the Reformed camps?
"all my babies that died before or at birth are in hell, because they weren't given the chance for spiritual redemption" |
I have never heard this from anyone, let alone someone who is Reformed. God is no respecter of persons, so anyone who is saved must attribute it to mere grace which does not discriminate on the basis of age, sex or any other aspect of life. Spiritual redemption finds the elect at the time and place that God has decreed it. (John 3:8)
Canons of Dordrecht, I:7
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This elect number, though by nature neither better nor more deserving than others, but with them involved in one common misery, God has decreed to give to Christ to be saved by Him, and effectually to call and draw them to His communion by His Word and Spirit; to bestow upon them true faith, justification, and sanctification; and having powerfully preserved them in the fellowship of His Son, finally to glorify them for the demonstration of His mercy, and for the praise of the riches of His glorious grace
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Examples such as David, Jeremiah & John the Baptist indicate that salvation at any age is certainly possible for a sovereign God! (see Psalm 22:9-10; Jeremiah 1:5; Luke 1:44)
And then note these wonderful words in 1 Kings 14:12-13 "When your feet enter the city, the child shall die. And all Israel shall mourn for him and bury him, for he is the only one of Jeroboam who shall come to the grave,
because in him there is found something good toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam”