This artlicle is EXCELLENT!!!  Thank you immensely, Ted, for posting it.  What a profound insight and understanding Tony Warren has about the issue of Predestination and Salvation.  He has brought to light certain aspects of this issue that even I haven't yet had the benefit of comprehending.  Through Holy Spirit-enlightened thought, untainted by  assumptions concerning erroneous traditional religious teachings, and an insatiable desire to know the Truth, I have been aware of the Truth concerning Predestination for some time now.  And Mr. Warren explains this Truth very, very well, providing aspects of it that even I haven't yet considered. 

 

How absolutely glorious is God's Pure Truth, and how blessed are those who make it their mission to continually discover it through intellectual humility!!! 

 

Until reading this article, I have been one who believed that a person has to reach a certain age (mentally) in order for God to be able to hold them accountable for their sinfulness.  I believed that a person was innocent from conception to whatever age it is for that particular person that God decides to begin to hold them accountable.  But now I see how this is an impossibility!  I see now how this is contradictory to the general concept of Predestination.  What an awesome point Mr. Warren has made concerning the fact that babies are born as sinners and are accountable for their sins from birth, and that not all children will go to Heaven when they die.  He explains that the only children that go to Heaven when they die will be those who God knows would have accepted His salvation when they were old enough to understand that they are sinners in need of Salvation.  No child is automatically Saved from sin.  God knows which babies would eventually become saved and which would not.  And if they die in the womb, or at age 2 or 5, it doesn't matter.  They will only go to Heaven if they are saved from their sins.  And they are saved from their sins the same way we all are.  It doesn't matter if a particular person is a baby or 72 years old, if they die unsaved, they will not go to Heaven.  If they are to be saved, then at some point in their life they either did or would have made the "decision" to accept Christ as their Savior.  If the baby who dies would have made this decision had he continued living, then this baby will go to Heaven.  If this baby would not have made this decision, the this baby will not go to heaven.

 

Tony Warren explains it in much more detail and shows exactly how Biblical it is.  I challenge everyone reading this post of mine to read his article in its entirety.  It is a long and very detailed article, and necessarily so in order for all refutations to be made null and void.  I know some will simply lash out against the very thought of it without reading it.  This is to be expected.  I would advise you to not post your opposition to it without reading it, though, because others with open minds will read it in its entirety, realize that its the Truth, and see your opposition as premature and ineffective. 

 

I will not be responding to any posts which are in response to either this post, or Tony Warren's article.  I cannot explain it or defend it any better than he has done.  Accept it or deny it, the Truth speaks for itself.

 

The article can be found by clicking on Ted Porter's May 19th post entitled "Is the Age of Accountability Biblical?"