The Answer is Always the Cross

Why should a 5 year old child get a free pass to heaven? Just because he is a child (at least according to our traditional theology)?

(Besides who in their right mind would ever put up a message like what was attached to this picture)
This is what someone said:
"Scripture is clear that children and the unborn have original sin--including both the propensity to sin as well as the inherent guilt of original sin. But could it be that somehow Christ's atonement did pay for the guilt for these helpless ones throughout all time? Yes, and therefore it is a credible assumption that a child who dies at an age too young to have made a conscious, willful rejection of Jesus Christ will be taken to be with the Lord."

<--- My Response: Close but Why Should this be the case? Why Babies only? Why not the disenfranchised, the mentally ill?

The Answer is the Cross... not because Babies are special and not because we think Babies should be innocent.

Recently a little three year girl died because of a freak accident. It's very sad.

The average traditional Christian theology has no adequate way of addressing whether this girl is in heaven or not, without cognitive dissonance and the type of mental gymnastics I see.

The fact is, ****You are supposed to confess Christ as Lord***, as you are born in sin. Well a three year old, may not have the cognitive capacity to do so. Since she was born in sin, she would not make it. She would be in hell...

So Wait... Why do we recoil at that? What did you say? She would be in heaven? What gave her a free pass? Because she is a child or because she is under some mystical age of accountability (that is no where to be found in scripture)? This is the exact reason why Andrea Yates killed all her children so that they don't have to live in this cruel world and go to heaven. Hey that logically makes sense. If I can avoid hell, why must I live pass childhood. Abortion actually is a good thing from an eternal perspective.

Why stop abortion then? Abortion should save the unborn child and send them to heaven.

I even heard someone say that they would go to hell and then when resurrected, the gospel would be shared so that a choice given before they are annihilated. I am not making this up.

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Well what is the answer? The Cross.

THE ANSWER IS ALWAYS THE CROSS.

"When I am lifted up, I will draw all men unto me"... "The Love of Christ compels me to conclude, that when Christ died, all men died" All Men, including all babies.

Christ is the righteous judge.

Perhaps, some of these questions on how will Christ deal with the billions of people who lived, especially those incapable of free will choice can only be answered, once we look at what He said. Perhaps we can then agree on how powerful the cross is.

Here is what Christ told us and how He was the Righteous Judge...

• Principle 1: Christ Knows Who Would Have Repented if Circumstances Were Different
• Principle 2: Christ Knows Which Gentiles Lived As If The Law was In Their Hearts
• Principle 3: All Judgment apart from the Cross is Based on Works Only. But as we all know, works do not save us...

Christ’s Righteous Judgment at Work

The cross makes all this righteous judgment possible, because when He died all men died in Him and His death dealt with the sin separation problem.

Now He can judged on the basis of:

• Would they have repented if they were given an opportunity?
• Are they physically able to exercise free choice?
• In their ignorance, did they follow their conscience?
• If capable and given a choice, did they refuse to believe?

This demonstrates how powerful the cross is and how righteous God's judgment is. This is why we are to judge or look at no man according to the flesh.

The cross was the Supreme Divine Court Judgment on this world. 

This judgment is not based on works, like all other judgments found in scripture pre and post the Cross. 

It was based on His Work Only.