How does religion explain infant deaths?
We read about the deaths of babies and children as a result of wars, diseases, or simply human cruelty. What did they do to recieve such a tragic fate? Is there an explanation for this in any religion?
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They did nothing but that is the world full of sin that we live in and the consequences, thereof. That is not God's fault. God does not force people to kill each other. It is the result of sin.
@Renkon
Dear heart, I will try to answer all your questions. The problem is we live in a world that is full of sin and we each do have a choice of whether to sin or not. We do know right from wrong. Little children are not held accountable for their sins. That would be unfair. Yet we are born with a sinful nature and that is because we all chose to sin. That's just our nature. All children who die, go to heaven because they are not yet at the point in their life where they have reached the age of accountability. That is, understanding that their choices can bring consequences. People would have sinned, whether Adam and Eve sinned or not. We're not answering for their sins. We are each accountable for our own sins and we can see from the world we live in, that we do sin. Sin is a terrible thing and God even hates that, but in one way, it is a good thing because we do have free will and without that we wouldn't know the difference between right and wrong. We would be robots and that's not what God wanted. However we must be mature enough to understand that with responsibility, comes accountability. So we are each held responsible for the choices we make. That sounds fair. God does not hate us. He hates sin because it separates us from him until we repent and ask for forgiveness.
There are people who commit sins in our world. But why should a child, who is incapable of thinking for herself or himself, bear the burden of the repercussions of another person's sins? Isn't this unjust?
Dear heart, I will try to answer all your questions. The problem is we live in a world that is full of sin and we each do have a choice of whether to sin or not. We do know right from wrong. Little children are not held accountable for their sins. That would be unfair. Yet we are born with a sinful nature and that is because we all chose to sin. That's just our nature. All children who die, go to heaven because they are not yet at the point in their life where they have reached the age of accountability. That is, understanding that their choices can bring consequences. People would have sinned, whether Adam and Eve sinned or not. We're not answering for their sins. We are each accountable for our own sins and we can see from the world we live in, that we do sin. Sin is a terrible thing and God even hates that, but in one way, it is a good thing because we do have free will and without that we wouldn't know the difference between right and wrong. We would be robots and that's not what God wanted. However we must be mature enough to understand that with responsibility, comes accountability. So we are each held responsible for the choices we make. That sounds fair. God does not hate us. He hates sin because it separates us from him until we repent and ask for forgiveness.