Those babies who were born of the Amalekites and the Egyptians never would come to know the goodness of God as they would have followed in their fathers footsteps of worshiping other gods. Just like many babies today that are born. There is no difference. This is why God allowed them to be killed along with the adults, but yet spared the firstborn of the seed of Abraham that also lived there.
Do you extend this to ALL infants? Best to kill them rather than have them grow up and follow after their father's way?
Or that these children are therefore liable to some kind of eternal punishment for having been born into a certain family?
Is being Fathered by an Amalekite or Egyptian sufficient reason to condemn an infant eternally than if they were instead born to a Jew or Christian?
Deuteronomy 1:39 these were the children of Gods covenant for a thousand generations.
What?
“And the LORD heard your words and was angered, and he swore,
35 ‘
Not one of these men of this evil generation shall see the good land that I swore to give to your fathers,
36 except Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
He shall see it, and to him and to his children I will give the land on which he has trodden, because he has wholly followed the LORD!’
37 Even with me the LORD was angry on your account and said, ‘You also shall not go in there.
38 Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, he shall enter. Encourage him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.
39 And as for
your little ones,
who you said would become a prey, and your children, who today have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in there. And to them I will give it, and they shall possess it.
40 But as for you, turn, and journey into the wilderness in the direction of the Red Sea.’ Deuteronomy 1:34-40 (ESV)
This is referring to the next generation of Israelites, this is revealed even more so by the statement, "who you said would become a prey." They said this in Numbers 14:3.
Why is the LORD bringing us into this land, to fall by the sword?
Our wives and our little ones will become a prey. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?” Numbers 14:3 (ESV)
God is alluding back to this time when they said this, and he said these little ones, who today (they were alive at that moment) have no knowledge of good or evil shall go in there.
This is definitively proven.
Isaiah 7:16 is speaking about Jesus alone who already had knowledge of good and evil even before the foundation of the world.
You understand that Isaiah's prophecies often had a dual fulfillment. This one in particular referring to Shear-jashub his son. It helps if you read the entirety of the Chapter and the surrounding context.
The fact that people are held accountable for their sins absolutely taught in the Bible.............I agree with this, but there is no age of accountability taught in scripture.
How does a child who is innocent and cannot knowingly commit sin accountable for his actions?
Do you understand what accountability is?
Scripture never specifies any age and is only speculation if we try to. Just because we think it is common sense does not make the truth void in what God has already said. Logic does not take a higher standing over that of what God has already taught us.
We are logically employing the Scriptures, as it doesn't directly speak to the fate of unbelieving infants. It apparently didn't vex the writers enough to include such I think which I believe is because it would have been quite simple for them to work out.
Adam and Eve had no knowledge of good and evil prior to the fall.. did they need a Savior at that time?.................not before the fall, but in their shame as one was already created in God from the foundation of the world and given the name Immanuel, or God be with us.
What?
they cannot be called to give an account for such actions and therefore should not be punished..................
Romans 14:12 begs to differ as it says
all will give an account of himself to God,
In Romans 14, who is the "us"?
Also, how does would one give an account for the actions of an infant.
"Child, why did you steal the cookie from the cookie jar?" the resurrected infant, now adult responds, "uh I was a baby and the cookie jar was put within my grasp and I had no concept of individual property." "NO EXCUSE!!!"
It's like one has to forget everything they know about children in order to embrace this belief.
If a baby has that stumbling block that keeps them from knowing the goodness of God like those babies of the Amalekites and the Egyptians then they will remain separated from God as even if they have the chance to grow they will seek out other gods.
They are GUILTY of being born into an Amalekite and Egyptian family, therefore they are liable to eternal punishment?
Disgusting.