@MTMattie take a look at this thread
Thanks... a lot of reading there....
The problem is Calvinism teaches all babies are sinful and born with a sin nature, all are born sinners and totally depraved and dead in their sins.
So its double speak, an oxymoron to say all babies are saved.
I do not believe babies are born sinful and depraved.
My reasons likely come down on the simplicity, if I can call it that, that God provided when humans were first walking the earth.
It seems rather odd that the Heavenly Father would have made man in "their" likeness and told man to "
28God blessed them; and God said to them, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”...
“Be fruitful and multiply, with the very idea that all those who were produced would be sinful and depraved and He would be issuing a punishment that He felt they merited.
That sounds too weird for any reasonable person to believe.
Couple that idea with what Ecclesiastes tells us in 12:7 then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.
A baby is born. And the spirit God gave that baby is born with the baby.
That is not a recipe for an unknowing sinner.
Can young children sin? I believe so, but because of how they are/were raised.
Jesus loved children... Mark 10 tells us 14 But when Jesus saw
it, He was greatly displeased and said to them, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of God. 15 Assuredly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will by no means enter it.” 16 And He took them up in His arms, laid
His hands on them, and blessed them.
These little ones, that as far as we know from scriptures never had a baptism.
But can they sin....? I think God believes so .... Proverbs says Train up a child in the way he should go, Even when he is old he will not depart from it.... So the sin part , IMO, comes from the parents.