I am attempting to understand the Westminster Catechism's teaching on: 'Elect infants, dying in infancy ....'
What happens to non-Elect infants in eternity? Will they be consigned to Hell with other unregenerate, unbelievers?
What purpose can their separation from God serve since they did not (as far as we can ascertain) choose to reject God's grace?
I believe that the Calvinist position and doctrine of predistination of the Elect forces us to conclude that the distinction of the Elect is not limited to adults.
Based on a parable of Jesus in Luke 12:47,48, there will be differing magnitudes of punishment that depend upon the actions of the servants while their Master was absent from them. How could innocent babies be responsible to receive even one of the beatings (of stripes) spoken about in the above passage?
Or, perhaps I am wrongly assuming that the passage referenced above refers to the state of those in Hell?
