All Babies Go To Heaven!!!!

John 14:6, “Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”

You are on your death bed and you know that in any moment you are going to see God. As a believer this is exciting, frightening and worrisome all at the same time, but we know where we are going.

Upon entering Heaven, you fall down and worship Christ, you are so excited to finally see your Savior face to face. He reaches down and helps you up and you fall into His arms, being enveloped. After what seems like an eternity of being in the arms of Jesus, you finally let go and start to look at your surroundings.

The colors, they are amazing and brilliant. There is every color you can think of, red, orange, maroon, aqua, peach and colors you have not ever seen before. The sounds of music and what seems to be notes that you never heard before in your life. And the smells, what wonderful smells, unbelievable!

Looking around you are just overwhelmed by all that you are taking in through all your senses, it is as if everything you drink in somehow effects all your senses at once. While you are looking, smelling, listening and what seems to be tasting Heaven, you look over to what looks like a grassy field. Are those Angels playing with children?

As you watch and enjoy the beautiful landscape and the amazement of Angels you see a child running toward you. Can it be? Could it be? Is that my child I lost? I never was able to see the child, but there seems to be a deep connection. The closer the child comes into view the deeper the connection seems to be. A joy seems to be overcoming your very being, a joy again that is like a tidal wave hitting your very soul. You almost cannot contain yourself. The child runs into your arms and hugs you and says, “Hello Mommy.” What a joy!! Next to meeting Jesus this is the next best event in your life. Your child is alive and in Heaven and now you get to spend eternity with them.

But wait a minute, back to reality. How do we really know that babies will go to Heaven? That is a nice picture, but babies have not had a chance to accept Christ, so how can we have faith that babies who die are in Heaven? Matthew 18:3 says, “Assuredly, I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.” Or Acts 4:12, “Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”

Can we really believe with certainty that babies are in Heaven? We are all born in sin according to Psalm 51:5, “Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, And in sin my mother conceived me.” I deem that we can, established on the Bible and the person of God. Just as there is no direct statement regarding the Trinity, there is no direct statement that babies go to Heaven, but we can imply it through what is said in the Bible and what we know through the attributes of God.

Probably the best passage of babies going to Heaven is 2 Samuel 12:21-23, “Then his servants said to him, “What is this that you have done? You fasted and wept for the child while he was alive, but when the child died, you arose and ate food.’ And he said, “While the child was alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, ‘Who can tell whether the Lord will be gracious to me, that the child may live?’ But now he is dead; why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.” David knows he is going to lose his baby, and he repents and fasts until the event occurs, as he was hoping for mercy, but he stops once the baby is confirmed dead. Why?

He knows that there is nothing more that can be done, but he makes a statement in the end that demonstrates that David believes his lost baby is with God when he says, “I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.” Meaning, David believes he will be with his child upon his death, and David is loved by God and we know that he will be with God when he dies, thus if he is with God and believes that he is going to his child, then his baby is in Heaven. God is impartial in His eternal person, meaning salvation is the same for all and not one way for one and one way for another. Thus, if David’s baby is in Heaven, then other babies that die must be in Heaven.

1 John 2:2 tells us, “And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world.” Jesus died for the sins of the saved and unsaved, which is the mercy the unsaved acquire, because if we were punished for our sin immediately then none of us would be in Heaven, as the Psalm reminds us that we are in sin upon birth. Meaning, Jesus died for the sins of the babies that died as well, and if they did not have time to accept Christ then their responsibility is not there for accountability and Christ’s death on the cross covers their sins as well. His love covers every sin, but those who can choose and do not find themselves in Hell upon death, where babies do not receive a choice either by natural death, as in Erin’s and my child, or in murder from abortion mills.

Logically we can believe that babies are in Heaven because of what we know about God. 1 John 4:8, “He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.” If God is love then we can believe that a perfectly loving God would do the loving thing when a baby dies, and that is to be with Him. Also, God is the righteous judge, “which the Lord, the righteous Judge,” (2 Timothy 4:8). This means that God’s judgment is virtuous, blameless, and just. Being perfectly just, and blameless and virtuous, we can take comfort in the fact that a righteous God will judge accordingly when it comes to the death of a child. He will demonstrate His perfect love and righteousness.

Where we would have to admit that there is not a direct verse in the Bible that tells us babies go to Heaven, we can certainly build our faith around the many verses that tell us of our loving, perfect, righteous God. Then we can base our faith upon one of the great men of God, David, who believed his baby was in Heaven. Just as we base our faith on the Trinity from implied verses, and as we base substitutionary atonement on verses of the Bible, we can base our faith of babies in Heaven from verses in the Bible.

I relish the fact that God might not have given a straight verse that Tobiah, our lost child, is in Heaven, but that He has given me verses that demonstrate this belief and I can know from evidential support that Tobiah is in Heaven playing with Angels and worshiping God. Those of you who have lost a child and/or aborted a child and wonder can rest assured that our God has called our babies home. Our faith is based on the evidence of things unseen as it says in Hebrews 11:1, “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” One day I will hold and play with my lost child and if you lost a child and know Christ as Savior and Lord you too will be able to see, hold and hug your child. Another reason, though not needed, to long for Heaven!

My belief that babies are in Heaven is based on evidential facts based on Biblical evidence and study of God and His attributes. My faith then based on this evidence can rest assured that I will see Tobiah one day! Again, if you are a Christian you can rest assured as well.

I will end with the words of Paul: Ephesians 3:14-19, “For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height—to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.”