Comments on: The Salvation of Infants: An Additional Line of Evidence http://betweenthetimes.com/2009/11/27/the-salvation-of-infants-an-additional-line-of-evidence/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:32:23 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Bryan Rabon http://betweenthetimes.com/2009/11/27/the-salvation-of-infants-an-additional-line-of-evidence/comment-page-1/#comment-10058 Bryan Rabon Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:42:24 +0000 http://betweenthetimes.com/?p=1398#comment-10058 Lew, speaking as one who has lost a child I would rather have hope even without hard evidence than no hope at all that I would ever see my child. I don't think people who have never experienced this loss can truly understand how it feels and how the hope of seeing them again eases that pain. I fail to see the harm in teaching this or believing it even if we don't have a slam dunk defense for our position. Life is more than carefully constructed arguments. Lew, speaking as one who has lost a child I would rather have hope even without hard evidence than no hope at all that I would ever see my child. I don’t think people who have never experienced this loss can truly understand how it feels and how the hope of seeing them again eases that pain. I fail to see the harm in teaching this or believing it even if we don’t have a slam dunk defense for our position. Life is more than carefully constructed arguments.

]]> By: Lew A http://betweenthetimes.com/2009/11/27/the-salvation-of-infants-an-additional-line-of-evidence/comment-page-1/#comment-9928 Lew A Sat, 28 Nov 2009 04:05:27 +0000 http://betweenthetimes.com/?p=1398#comment-9928 I do not really understand why we try to answer a question that we admit we cannot be sure about. Why not just take the position that we can be sure about, which you said, "God both just and merciful and always does what is right, no matter what and even when we have a hard time explaining it." If we are wrong about where infants go when they die and we teach what is wrong, aren't we giving people false hope? I just don't see the sense in telling people something to make them feel better when we are not completely sure ourselves. God Speed, Lew I do not really understand why we try to answer a question that we admit we cannot be sure about. Why not just take the position that we can be sure about, which you said, “God both just and merciful and always does what is right, no matter what and even when we have a hard time explaining it.”

If we are wrong about where infants go when they die and we teach what is wrong, aren’t we giving people false hope? I just don’t see the sense in telling people something to make them feel better when we are not completely sure ourselves.

God Speed,
Lew

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