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Originally Posted by eweissenbach
So what about my nephew who died of SIDS at three months. He did not believe in Christ, or anything else for that matter. Is he destined to spend eternity in Hades? Or how about the person who was never introduced to Christianity, but lived a wonderfully giving and righteous life, are they destined to an afterlife spent in Hell?
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The first link is a Baptist answer, and Rags posted a Catholic reference. The second link here is from R.C. Sproul, Reformed (Presbyterian) theologian.
Do Infants, Children Who Die Go to Heaven?
Are those who have never heard of Christ going to hell?
From what I've studied and have been taught, people go to hell
for rejecting what they have been told in the Gospel.
Babies and people who've never heard the Gospel cannot reject what they have not been told. People are accountable to God according to the knowledge they have received and either accepted or rejected.
Beyond that, Romans 1 states the following about those "who suppress the truth" of God. Babies and untaught people cannot suppress what they haven't been told.
18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness,
19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.
20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.
22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools
23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and….
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage...+1&version=NIV