There's a ministry (No Greater Joy) with which I have been acquainted for many years. The fella who ministers and runs it had this to say, "Romans 4:15 says, 'Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.' No child is in transgression. No infant—no child—has disobeyed the laws of God and is guilty before God and damned because of their personal sin. (
https://nogreaterjoy.org/articles/what-happens-to-children-when-the-rapture-takes-place/)
This is a great explanation as to why I disagree with the idea that babies and children are lost in eternity. The decision as to placing one's sin upon the cross, or to hold on to their sin and try to atone for them all on their own...
that is the point of when their name is either found or not found in the Lamb's Book of Life.
I didn't even know he believed what I have been saying about this topic, "Now I’m going to give you my opinion. Now, this is my opinion: I think probably one of the main reasons for the Millennium is going to be so that babies and children and mentally disabled who died before accountability can grow to maturity during that thousand-year reign of Christ and be accountable just as you and I are accountable in a natural way, having come to understand the law, being faced with Jesus Christ personally, and being responsible and held accountable for their lives. I think that’s going to happen in the Millennium. I can’t prove it, but I have another passage that hints at something like that."
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https://nogreaterjoy.org/articles/what-happens-to-children-when-the-rapture-takes-place/)
Until just Friday, I was not aware of his thoughts about this, but it's interesting that the application of a systematic application of so many things revealed within scripture can lead to the conclusion reached in this thread, in that babies, young children, and, yes, perhaps even the mentally incapacitated, will all be functional and normal so that they too will reach the point of accountability, as we all have in this realm, and thus fulfill the perfect justice of the Most High.
That's not to say that they will be reset and distanced from the influences of the godly parents they had before passing from the pre-Millennium life within which they had not been able to reach that point. The crack babies, for example, who entered this life mentally maimed because of uncaring and unloving parents, and who therefore died or were mentally damaged as a result, perhaps they will be given that choice for or against Christ in the Millennium.
This topic may indeed be a source of painful reading for some when thinking about their baby/child who had passed before, and who may be required to face that point of decision, but that should not be a reason for consternation and pain. In relation to the suggestions within this topic, I'm not removing them from Heaven if they are not actually there as of yet, I'm simply positing the possibility that they too will be afforded the same decision point through which all the rest of humanity had to pass in order to reach that most important decision point in life, just as all Israel had to pass through the Red Sea parting in order to reach safety on the other side, which scripture describes as a sort of "baptism" as I recall.
In other words, I do not see it as an injustice for that massive number of babies, children and mentally damaged being required to make that choice. It cannot be said that environment is the only factor as to why most reject Christ, and only some embrace His offer of salvation. Something I noticed is how different my four boys were in relation to each other in the arena of personality. They differed greatly, and still do. How that plays into all this I cannot say, but it does bolster confidence in the Lord's economy of perfect justice to think that all will be held to account for the decision they made in this life, whether it be before or after the starting point of the Millennial Kingdom. This scenario provides for ALL to reach that point, and therefore completing the separating out the goats from the sheep.
MM