Posted: May 22, 2015 8:29 pm
Shrunk wrote:
As I read that, what it effectively says is: If we go by the rules as God has revealed them, unbaptized infants go straight to hell. But that would be a real asshole move, wouldn't it? Since God presumably does not want to be seen as an asshole, he will surely find some loophole to spare the infants eternal torture. At least, we hope so."
My initial understanding was more like this. That unbaptized kids went straight to hell.
If ensoulment occurs at the moment of conception, we could be winding up with most souls going to hell before even getting a chance to have been born due simply to the natural rate of spontaneous abortion. Which would basically mean that the Christian god intentionally created a world in which His biological designs ensured that the majority of his beloved children had NO CHOICE but to burn in fire forever.
Bit problematic, that.