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Calvinism on Infant Damnation

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[This is taken from my post  "As evil as it gets: Calvinism on babies and the unreached."   I'm breaking that longer post up into shorter pieces, to focus on one topic per post.  I left the same lettering from the original post.  I'll intersperse  this series  with the  Alana L series .]  Calvinism's teachings on infant damnation: Is it any wonder that they'd believe in infant damnation in light of their views of what babies and young children are like (previous post in this serries)?  (However, to be fair, plenty of Calvinists believe that babies - at least elect babies - go to heaven.  But I think this contradicts their theology, as I'll explain later.) t. Tim Challies   ( "Original sin and the death of infants" ):   "... in an article I wrote last week...[I] expressed my belief that my children (ages 6, 3, and 3 months) are, at this time, likely unsaved and are thus spiritually dead..." u. James White  (listen to the cl...

Things that make you go "Hmm?"

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Alana L.: 3H (bad analogies)

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This series is based on this 14-minute video from Alana L.:   5 Signs Your Loved One is Becoming a Calvinist    [About the numbering of this series: The number refers to which point Alana is on.  The letter is which post it is in my series, one letter per post, but some of Alana's points get more posts/letters than others.] Point #3 Still: H.   Along with the Calvinist idea of "it's fair and just for everyone to go to hell anyway, so we should be thankful that God saves anyone at all," Alana shares two analogies about salvation: The Calvinist One:   God reaches down and only scoops up a few people to save, and then leaves the rest to go to hell.  Calvinists say that hell is what we all deserve anyway for being sinners, that we're all on our way to hell anyway (which contradicts Calvinism's belief that the elect were never on their way to hell at any point in time because they were created for heaven)... and so it's not wrong for God to let the non-ele...