Mormon Question - If an 8 year old (age of reason) dies before being baptized, will the kid go to hell?
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In Mormon theology, the eight year old and all of those who have responded to this and every other question on Yahoo!Answers would not go to hell.  Mormons don't believe in hell.  Almost all are elevated to degrees of heavenly glory, whether to the terrestial, telestial or celestial kingdoms. (Mormon lore would have it that if you could see the terrestial kingdom, you'd kill yourself to get there because it is so much better than the hell-hole we call earth.)\n\nReally, the closest thing I have been able to come up with as a Mormon version of hell is the inability to progess between kingdoms after death.  It is like this life is where you get your seeding for the March Madness of Eternity (That was a basketball reference) and you don't want to go into eternity as a 16 seed, because you'll never make it out of the first round.\n\nNow, Orson Pratt and Brigham Young fought about eternal progression and Brigham, being the prophet and seer at the time won.  See the website below for more info.  My own personal feeling is that Brigham wanted eternal progression to halt for one reason --  he was stuck in a deseret with a bunch of people and no hell fire and damnation to control them, other than a few Dan-ites.  I'm sure Brigham thought, "I have a theology that some believe gives you all eternity to get it right, where is the urgency and the control that comes with people urgently striving for salvation?"  Thus, cirumscribe the progression between the kingdoms and you regain control.  \n\nThe next theological question is if the lowest kingdom is so cool, people still might not care sufficiently about their eternal salvation and that is answered by what you get to do in the highest kingdom -- procreate.  You can't do that in the two lower kingdoms.  Your eternal sex life is at stake if you screw it up on this earth.  This is what gives the Mormon church such control over its life long and hard won male members, it has them by the proverbial and eternal balls.  It is enough to make the Muslims and their views of paradisiacal harems to nod their heads in theological awe.\n\nSo in answer to your question, the eight year old probably didn't have time to commit enough sin to not sneak into the South Pole of the Celestial Kingdom where he will then have an eternity to work his way through an eternal pubescence, until he reaches full rigidity of his Melchizedek priesthood.\n\nI'm pretty certain that is how Mormon theology views it.
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Son,you know that to be not true\n\nSpare us your stupidity and refrain from making even more of a jackass out of yourself.\n\nThis insult is very lame because an eight year old can come up with something better than this to get attention.\n\n\nI mean,even the heaviest christian bashers on this forum would call this one weak compared to their onsluaght.
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We need never fear about God being unjust. He just cannot be. His mercy and justice are from everlasting to everlasting. I therefore have to conclude, that there will be no children in hell. There will also be no retarded, or otherwise mentally-incapacitated individuals there, those who cannot fully comprehend and understand what Christ has accomplished on their behalf at Calvary.
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Damn...I was searching for this answer too...about 3 years ago...and read it somewhere in an islamic book...yes infants do go straight to heaven if they pass away...thats because their soul is still unconscience...they do not understand what they are doing...cannot differentiate between right and wrong...I think that was it...
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This is a law that man made, not God. There is no way that I believe that a baby went to hell for not being baptized.
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Children who die will go to Heaven. Every child born knows God at their first breath.  Read John 1.\n\nAlso, I believe every ones name is written in the Lamb's book of Life at the foundation. It is written that hell was made for the Devil and His angels.   When one isn't taught who God is they are judged according to land laws and conscience.  Creation itself reveals who it's Creator is.\n\nThe choice to love God or reject God comes when a person hears the salvation message.  Upon continual rejection & rebellion of God, a person may get their name blotted out of the Lamb's book of life.  Upon Accepting God and His salvation plan through the Lamb of God, one gets Spiritually born and everlasting life.
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All go to hell at death including Christians.\n\nI couldn't answer this question any better, so i borrowed it from pontiuspilatewsm . . i don't think he'll mind. but this is what the bible truly teaches about 'hell'\n\nAll go to hell at death including Christians.The original Hebrew word was Sheol and the Greek word was Hades, properly translated they mean: the grave or a pit.Another word also translated as hell was Gehenna(Greek),this is an actual place now known as the Hinnom Valley in Jerusalem. This is a place that always had a fire and they burnt trash, animal carcasses, and live babies were sacrificed to molech the great owl god.Look at a map.In Psalm 16:10, & 49:15 David knew he was going to hell (grave) and would be resurected from it.Many of the older Bibles such as Geneva properly translated these words as grave or pit. It is impossible to have three totally different words and translate them all as hell. In the 1600's when the KJV Bible was made ,the meaning of the word hell was to put in the ground so when they changed the wording to hell they understood what it meant.If you look up Gehenna in Websters dictionary today you will see it tells you the same thing I said. Apparently its to difficult for most Christians to actually look up the meaning of a word, they prefer to listen to the lies that their preacher spews from the pulpit. My God will put you in hell(I worship the true God of the Bible) when you die,the grave, and regardless of your beliefs or how you lived you will be resurected for judgement. To receive eternal life you must know Christ as saviour, if not you will be thrown into the lake of fire Rev. 20:14,this is the second death, and consumed instantly. No eternal suffering and torment.I am a Christian and I think its a shame that churches use these kind of scare tactics to keep people in church.
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yes, those who reject it go to hell. but just because someone doesn't reject the Gospel doesn't mean they are saved. they must accept it in order to be saved and believe in Christ. no one really knows what for sure happens to believers and nonbelievers before judgement day, but i think that they are separated, and then we'll all be judged one day and go to 'our place' eternally. some Biblical whiz probably has a better idea more based on the Bible, but either way, once you die, you'll go to heaven or hell. hopefully you'll/you believe the Gospel and live for God!
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There's apparently a big debate about this. If you're part of an older church, then yeah, God would've given the smackdown before rapture. Newer churches take the view of the rapture occurring before the mayhem begins.
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King James of bible fame executed a Baptist for preaching that babies do not go to hell.\n\nIt depends on who you ask. If the doctrine of "original sin" (foundation of Christianity) is correct, babies go to hell.  They are as evil as Adolf Hitler.\n\nComment:\n\nI am an atheist in large part because the bible is a book of mythology and Christianity is nonsense. But, that does not alter the fact I am well versed in theology and bible history.\n\nIf there is no "original sin," then that is proof Christianity is nonsense because that is the very foundation upon which it rests.
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If you use "South Park" as a prophacy tool, then you'd understand that only (mainly) Mormons get into heaven. . .(mainly because they let Kenney in because he got to level 60 on the PSP II; to win the war!)\n\nHee-hee: Ha-Ha: Just JOKING
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I'm not afraid of death, but i don't want to die now because i know if i did i would go to hell.  Believing in God kinda makes it hard to accepting death if you have not turned your life over to him. After i get baptized i can die, but right now being alive is looking good.
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If you knew someone was going to die because of the actions he was taking would you tell him?\n\nMark 16: 15-16\n\n15And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. \n\n 16He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.\n\n\nI don't personally wish for anyone to be damned to hell.  Since I know how to keep them out of it I feel a responsibility to tell them.
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Well, I know what church doctrine says, but only God knows the heart of any one person.  Fact is, we are all just guessing about it.  Noone can do that and come to tell us what happened next, so we will never know.  I can't imagine God punishing someone for dying as a result of mental illness. Church says they go to hell.  However, if it's true that we go to heaven as a result of having faith in God ( specifically in Christ's death in our place)  rather than by our works; then  suicide, which would be works, couldn't keep a person out of heaven
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And I cannot imagine that anyone outside true believers can imagine any of these answers help at all. Children die of horrible diseases in the first year of life, why bother if your answer is that they are going to heaven (of which you have no proof), why not just skip the bit on earth?\n\nAnd the sickest thing is that Christians will say its because someone else has sinned, even the most blind human knows you do not punish someone, particularly the most helpless, because of someone elses transgression.
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Why Must Even Youths Die?\n\n“WHY did my baby die?” the young mother sobbed, grief-stricken at the death of her only child. “He had so many years ahead—so much to live for.”Such parents are not alone in their sorrow. Their pain has been felt by many others. Usually it is a grief known only to a few close friends. At other times the world becomes aware of the loss.\n\nThe only book that truly explains this situation is the oldest book in existence, the Holy Bible. Its writers were inspired by God, and so what they wrote merits our interest. One of those inspired penmen wrote almost three thousand years ago: “The living are conscious that they will die.”—Eccl. 9:5.This same Bible writer who wrote, “For the living are conscious that they will die,” continued that very sentence with a statement that surprises many persons. He said: “But as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all.”—Eccl. 9:5, 10.\n\nThis idea surprises persons who have been taught in their churches that the dead not only are conscious, but are consciously suffering punishments or enjoying rewards. Who has not heard the idea that the dead are suffering in a hellfire or purgatory or are enjoying the blessings of heaven? Yet God’s Word, the Bible, says the dead “are conscious of nothing at all.”\nVerify this for yourself. Get your own copy of the Bible, and read these words in the book of Ecclesiastes, chapter nine, verses five and ten.\nThe Bible teaches that Jesus’ ransom sacrifice opened the way for a magnificent hope for mankind. By laying down his human life, Jesus was offering as a sacrifice the exact equivalent of what Adam had lost—perfect human life on earth. He paid a “ransom” for dying mankind. Now the prospect of eternal life was again open. Thus it was proper for the apostle Peter to call Jesus God’s “Chief Agent of life.” (Acts 3:15) It is by means of this One that God will raise the dead to life in a thrilling resurrection. Concerning this, the Christian apostle Paul said: “There is going to be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous.”—Acts 24:15.\nEven now there are persons who are exercising faith in God’s Son, and they have a wonderful hope ahead of them, even as Jesus said: “God loved the world so much that he gave his only-begotten Son, in order that everyone exercising faith in him might not be destroyed but have everlasting life.”—John 3:16.\n\nMany persons can quote that Bible passage, but few have thought about what it actually says. It does not say that Jesus gave his life that people might “become angels” or so that “all good people might go to heaven.” It says he did so that they might have “everlasting life.”\n\nYou may have prayed: “Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”—Matt. 6:10, Douay translation.Few persons have realized what a change it will make for that prayer to be answered—for God’s will to be done throughout the earth the way it is done in heaven. In fact, it will require that God replace this present system of things, with its wars, corruption and greed. In its place will be a new system that will assure the conditions of peace and life that God originally created in Eden.\n\nPsalms 37:29  The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever. It is possible to benefit from Christ’s ransom, and to conform to God’s instructions. We can take a course of obedience that will permit us either to survive through the coming “great tribulation” or to be resurrected afterward, into a righteous and cleansed earth, now near at hand. What a blessing to be on hand when dead loved ones, perhaps your children, return from the dead!  NO BABIES DO NOT GO TO "hell, or purgatory" THEY ARE ASLEEP WAITING FOR THE RESURRECTION .
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Through Jesus Christ is you only way to Heaven.  The Bible says that only those who are born of the Spirit and born of Water will inherit the Kingdom of Heaven.\n\nAll the people that keep telling you not to worry about hell are very wrong.  Hell is very real and you must fear it.  \n\nJohn 3:16 Whosoever believeth in him shold not perish, but have everlasting life.\nMathew4:17 Repent ye; for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.