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If Christ's substitutionary death covers original sin as well as willful sin, it seems as if his disposition toward infants would lead one to conclude that infants, dying in infancy, are in Christ Jesus, not under condemnation for original sin and therefore elect.
| But the reasoning is faulty. You are positing a default state of grace for humans that they have to lose by bad behavior. | The elect do have a default state of grace, the non-elect do not. | "Default" is unfortunate language, since all are conceived in original sin. Nobody has a "default" state of grace. The elect are elect "unto salvation", that is, unto grace - they aren't conceived in a state of grace. Quote: Quote:
2 Chronicles 25:4
However, he did not put their children to death, but did as it is written in the law in the book of Moses, which the LORD commanded, saying, " Fathers shall not be put to death for sons, nor sons be put to death for fathers, but each shall be put to death for his own sin."
| | So are you questioning original sin???
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