wedrifid comments on Scientific Self-Help: The State of Our Knowledge - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 25 January 2011 05:53:33AM 0 points [-]

A quick google on "do young children go to hell?" led me to this, excerpt:

Therefore, we have been given a specific example in the Old Testament of an infant who died and would live forever in heaven. And Jesus Christ Himself, in the New Testament, stated that little children retain the qualities that make a person eligible to inherit the kingdom of God. We see, then, that infants and small children that die are in a safe state, and will live eternally in heaven.

With such clear statements from the Bible about the eternal destiny of dead infants and small children, why have religious people mistakenly taught that babies go to hell when they die?

(The scripture quotes in question were totally reaching by the way. But that's the whole point of theology.)