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Christians :How can you answer this question?

A Mutaliza(islamic sect) and an Ashari (islamic sect) make a conservation

Ashari says:There are three brothers.One had good deeds and died .The second had bad deeds and died and third one died when he was child.What are their situations?

Mutazila answers:The one who has good deeds will enter paradise ,the one who has bad deeds will enter hell and the child will not be punished or rewarded.

Ashari asks:What if child says "Oh Allah why didnt you let me grow so i can have good deeds and enter paradise"

Mutazila says:Allah knew he will have bad deeds so he killed the child for his benefit

Ashari asks:What if the one who had bad deed says " Oh Allah why didnt you kill me when i am child so i wouldnt be a rebelious person"

Mutazila stopped and couldnt answer this question.

So what is your answer christians.What will happen to children?

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    The third child went to heaven

    Source(s): Deuteronomy 1:39, Isaiah 7:16, Second Samuel 12:23
  • 8 years ago

    It doesn't matter if they did "good deeds" or "bad deeds". Unless you believe and trust in Jesus Christ you will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Children are different. They either do not have the chance to sin or they do not understand the Gospel so they do go to Heaven. There is an age of understanding, or accountability, though.

  • 8 years ago

    First, from a Christian's perspective, nobody goes to heaven because of good deeds: a person goes to heaven because of his acceptance of the vicarious death of Jesus in his stead. However, once a person is saved, good deeds are required in order to maintain that state of being saved.

    Secondly, at death, everybody is asleep in the grave (or their final resting place ) until the resurrection : (at the first resurrection) the righteous go to heaven and (at the second resurrection one thousand years after the first) the unrighteous to eternal destruction (total annihilation in a very short space of time).

    If a child is not of accountable age and dies, he will be saved if either one of his parents is saved in heaven (when the first resurrection takes place). If both parents are lost, he will not he resurrected. That is, he does not go to heaven but neither does he suffer hell.

  • First, most of us, good or bad, are not going to heaven.

    Psalms 37:11,29--11 But the meek ones themselves will possess the earth,

    And they will indeed find their exquisite delight in the abundance of peace.

    29) The righteous themselves will possess the earth,

    And they will reside forever upon it.

    Matthew 5:5--“Happy are the mild-tempered ones, since they will inherit the earth."

    Secondly, that there will be a resurrection (to earth, obviously, but when it has been remade into the paradise God meant for humankind, shown when God put the first humans in a paradise)

    Acts 24:15--and I have hope toward God, which hope these [men] themselves also entertain, that there is going to be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous.

    And that some of those who are resurrected to life are among the unrighteous, as shown in this scripture. Now unrighteous here is different from the wicked. The wicked know about God but refuse to follow His ways, actively choosing their own way rather than to follow God. The unrighteous here refers to those who may not have followed God, but special circumstances allow for God to extend mercy to them.

    As examples, there are those who died before having heard the message and being able to decide whether they would follow or not. For example, as you mentioned those children who died before they could make the decision, those who lived in parts of the world that had not received the message before they died, this may also include those who committed suicide (which shows disrespect for God's gift of life) but God can extend mercy in the knowledge that what may have led to their suicide was the pressures of Satan's world (1st John 5:19), or maybe those who were addicted to drugs or alcohol but were honestly trying to clean themselves up and yet failed because they were addicted...then died before they had completed their attempt to cleanse themselves (think maybe along the lines of Whitney Houston, for example).

    There may be others, but you get the idea. In other words, God has promised a resurrection for those who did good deeds, some of those who did bad deeds but under special circumstances, and for this question, children who died before they had a chance to decide to follow God or not. Then those resurrected will have their chance to decide to follow God or not. The child may or may not survive to eternal life, that depends on his choice when he is given that choice in the future resurrection (he will be given some time to learn the message and decide), but he will have a chance.

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  • 8 years ago

    In Romans 7:9 Paul wrote, “Once I was alive apart from law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.”

    Since Paul was physically alive at the time, many scholars (myself included) believe he was speaking of the spiritual death that only unbelievers will experience. That means all children are born with eternal life. In His mercy God does not count their sins against them until they are able to intellectually understand the idea of sin and its consequences. If they die before that time it’s as if they never sinned.

    When Paul said, “But when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died,” he was speaking of reaching the age where he could understand this. At that time he became accountable for his sins and was destined for spiritual death. In Jewish culture this is thought to happen at age 13 for boys and 12 for girls, but no specific age has ever been established in the Bible. By becoming born again Paul escaped this destiny and regained the eternal life with which he was born.

    The same is true for all aborted babies and other children who never reach the required intellectual maturity, whether due to accident, illness, or birth defects.

    At the rapture of the Church children who have died will receive new bodies, while those who are still alive will be transformed from mortal to immortal like their adult counterparts. Paul explained this in 1 Corinthians 15:54.

    As for the adults in your story, no one can get to Heaven by their own works because we're all sinners. A perfect God cannot allow the unrighteous in Heaven. But the Bible says we are made righteous by our faith in Jesus. Belief is the only criterion.

    If you're not sure what Jesus has done for you then listen to this: http://gracethrufaith.com/gift-shop/mp3-the-incomp...

    This too: http://gracethrufaith.com/gift-shop/mp3-from-rags-...

  • 8 years ago

    I'm christian so i believe in Jesus Christ and God so Allah is meaningless to me...

    But if you die as a child (in some form of Christianity younger than twelve and in others before you are tainted with sins) then you will automatically go to heaven. Some people even believe God hears children's prayers before adults.

  • 8 years ago

    I believe in only heaven and Hell. So no child is of developped mind or has lived long enough to commit acts of true evil, I'm going with heaven.

  • 8 years ago

    If we were saved by our works, then the dilemma remains for Christianity as well. Children are saved because they did not know better. GOD wants us in heaven. HE will do all that HE can to save us.

    GOD bless

  • Owen
    Lv 4
    8 years ago

    if allah created that child so that he would die because he would have bad deeds? thats dumb, people have free will. god knows whats gonna happen if we do good or bad

    the good deeds man goes to hell. why? he didnt do the good deeds because he loves god, he did them for himself

    the bad deeds guy died and goes to hell.

    the child is the only one who goes to heaven

    why?

    children dont have discernment, and jesus said "do not hinder the little children from coming to me"

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Allah sucks! Boooooo! Go Jesus Christ! Wooooooo!

    Source(s): This was a message brought to you by the republican party.
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