If a baby or infant died ....he'll become an angel?
Angels are created beings--not dead people. They are created beings.
The only ones who have a promise of the heavenly reward are the faithful consecrated Christian. We are told over and over again that if we endure to the end we get the crown of life, if we overcome the flesh, if we finish the racecourse set before us and so forth.
It is not understanding God's plan for all of mankind which has led to false doctrines like infant baptism. Not understanding that there isn't just heaven and sheol/hades. The purpose of the Gospel Age is to call out a people for his name. That is a church, the Bride of Christ. We are kings and priests in training.
If faithful unto death we will be kings and priests in the Kingdom which we pray for---God's will to be done on the earth as it is in heaven.
The Bible teaches a resurrection of the just (justified, i.e. consecrated Christians) and the unjust (everyone else). All in their graves will hear the voice of the son of God and come forth.
As kings we will rule over these people with our Lord Jesus with a rod of iron, as priests we will help them up the highway of holiness (Isa. 35) and to know the Lord from the least unto the greatest, that they may attain the full resurrection (that is a standing before God--which they lost when Adam sinned)
Jer_31:34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
Babies don't go to heaven, they come back in the resurrection with the rest of the world.
Here is something to think about. Read Hebrews 11. Then explain what the last verse means where it says, "They without us cannot be made perfect, God having something better for us." And also think about Jesus' own statement that John the Baptist is not in heaven.
Jesus taught about the resurrection of the last days--churches no longer preach this and that has lead to all this confusion.
The only ones who have a promise of the heavenly reward are the faithful consecrated Christian. We are told over and over again that if we endure to the end we get the crown of life, if we overcome the flesh, if we finish the racecourse set before us and so forth.
It is not understanding God's plan for all of mankind which has led to false doctrines like infant baptism. Not understanding that there isn't just heaven and sheol/hades. The purpose of the Gospel Age is to call out a people for his name. That is a church, the Bride of Christ. We are kings and priests in training.
If faithful unto death we will be kings and priests in the Kingdom which we pray for---God's will to be done on the earth as it is in heaven.
The Bible teaches a resurrection of the just (justified, i.e. consecrated Christians) and the unjust (everyone else). All in their graves will hear the voice of the son of God and come forth.
As kings we will rule over these people with our Lord Jesus with a rod of iron, as priests we will help them up the highway of holiness (Isa. 35) and to know the Lord from the least unto the greatest, that they may attain the full resurrection (that is a standing before God--which they lost when Adam sinned)
Jer_31:34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
Babies don't go to heaven, they come back in the resurrection with the rest of the world.
Here is something to think about. Read Hebrews 11. Then explain what the last verse means where it says, "They without us cannot be made perfect, God having something better for us." And also think about Jesus' own statement that John the Baptist is not in heaven.
Jesus taught about the resurrection of the last days--churches no longer preach this and that has lead to all this confusion.
