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This is based primarily on [http://biblehub.com/commentaries/mark/16-16.htm Mark 16:16] "'''He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.'''" (KJV) An unborn or a newborn child, infant, babe, child in arms, who does not and cannot understand, does not believe. And that little child shall most certainly be damned by dying because that child did not believe and was not baptized. "Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and ''of'' the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God." John 3:5. Therefore, according to a literalist "plain, simple and obvious" reading of the Bible ''[[sola scriptura]]'', unbaptized infants are damned.<ref>Compare [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+5%3A25-29&version=NRSVCE John 5:25-29.]</ref>

This is based primarily on [http://biblehub.com/commentaries/mark/16-16.htm Mark 16:16] "'''He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.'''" (KJV) An unborn or a newborn child, infant, babe, child in arms, who does not and cannot understand, does not believe. And that little child shall most certainly be damned by dying because that child did not believe and was not baptized. "Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and ''of'' the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God." John 3:5. Therefore, according to a literalist "plain, simple and obvious" reading of the Bible ''[[sola scriptura]]'', unbaptized infants are damned.<ref>Compare [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+5%3A25-29&version=NRSVCE John 5:25-29.]</ref>

[[John Calvin]] in his '''''Institutes of Christian Religion''''' states most clearly that only those [[Predestination|predestinate]] souls [[Eternal security (salvation)|elected irrevocably]] to the blessed glory of salvation by the irresistible grace of the Sovereign Will of God alone will attain heaven and stand in the presence of Almighty God. All others, men, women, children, babies, infants, the unborn in the womb, who die, are destined by their unregenerate wicked nature of total depravity for the ruin of hell apart from the presence of God, because "''Thou art'' of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity". [http://biblehub.com/commentaries/habakkuk/1-13.htm Habakkuk 1:13] Thus, the [[ordinance]] of baptism avails nothing for those who are not already appointed unto salvation, "For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ." [http://biblehub.com/commentaries/1_thessalonians/5-9.htm 1&nbsp;Thessalonians 5:9]. [[Saint Paul]] says in his ''Epistle to the Romans'', chapter 9:{{cquote|¹⁸ Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will ''have mercy'', and whom he will he hardeneth.<br>¹⁹ Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?<br>²⁰ Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed ''it'', Why hast thou made me thus?<br>²¹ Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonor?<br>²² ''What'' if God, willing to shew ''his'' wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:<br>²³ And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,<br>²⁴ Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?<br>²⁵ As he saith also in [[Book of Hosea|Osee]], I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.<br>²⁶ And it shall come to pass, ''that'' in the place where it was said, unto them, Ye ''are'' not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.<br>—Romans 9:18-26 (KJV)}}

[[John Calvin]] in his '''''Institutes of Christian Religion''''' states most clearly that only those [[Predestination|predestinate]] souls [[Eternal security (salvation)|elected irrevocably]] to the blessed glory of salvation by the irresistible grace of the Sovereign Will of God alone will attain heaven and stand in the presence of Almighty God. All others, men, women, children, babies, infants, the unborn in the womb, who die, are destined by their unregenerate wicked nature of total depravity for the ruin of hell apart from the presence of God, because "''Thou art'' of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity". [http://biblehub.com/commentaries/habakkuk/1-13.htm Habakkuk 1:13]{{cquote|Original sin, then, may be defined a hereditary corruption and depravity of our nature, extending to all the parts of the soul, which first makes us obnoxious to the wrath of God, and then produces in us works which in Scripture are termed works of the flesh. This corruption is repeatedly designated by Paul by the term sin (Gal. 5:19); while the works which proceed from it, such as adultery, fornication, theft, hatred, murder, revellings, he terms, in the same way, the fruits of sin, though in various passages of Scripture, and even by Paul himself, they are also termed sins. The two things, therefore, are to be distinctly observed--viz. that being thus perverted and corrupted in all the parts of our nature, we are, merely on account of such corruption, deservedly condemned by God, to whom nothing is acceptable but righteousness, innocence, and purity. This is not liability for another's fault. For when it is said, that the sin of Adam has made us obnoxious to the justice of God, the meaning is not, that we, who are in ourselves innocent and blameless, are bearing his guilt, but that since by his transgression we are all placed under the curse, he is said to have brought us under obligation. Through him, however, not only has punishment been derived, but pollution instilled, for which punishment is justly due. Hence Augustine, though he often terms it another's sin (that he may more clearly show how it comes to us by descent), at the same time asserts that it is each individual's own sin. And the Apostle most distinctly testifies, that "death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned," (Rom. 5:12); that is, are involved in original sin, and polluted by its stain. Hence, even infants bringing their condemnation with them from their mother's womb, suffer not for another's, but for their own defect. For although they have not yet produced the fruits of their own unrighteousness, they have the seed implanted in them. Nay, their whole nature is, as it were, a seed-bed of sin, and therefore cannot but be odious and abominable to God. Hence it follows, that it is properly deemed sinful in the sight of God; for there could be no condemnation without guilt.<br>—Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book 2, Chapter 1, Section 5.8 Definition of original sin.<ref>[https://www.biblestudytools.com/history/calvin-institues-christianity/book2/chapter-1.html Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book 2, Chapter 1 (biblestudytools.com)</ref>}}Thus, the [[ordinance]] of baptism avails nothing for those who are not already appointed unto salvation and do not believe, "and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed" [http://biblehub.com/commentaries/acts/13-48.htm Acts 13:48 (KJV)], "For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ." [http://biblehub.com/commentaries/1_thessalonians/5-9.htm 1&nbsp;Thessalonians 5:9 (KJV)]. [[Saint Paul]] says in his ''Epistle to the Romans'', chapter 9:{{cquote|¹⁸ Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will ''have mercy'', and whom he will he hardeneth.<br>¹⁹ Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?<br>²⁰ Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed ''it'', Why hast thou made me thus?<br>²¹ Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonor?<br>²² ''What'' if God, willing to shew ''his'' wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:<br>²³ And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,<br>²⁴ Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?<br>²⁵ As he saith also in [[Book of Hosea|Osee]], I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.<br>²⁶ And it shall come to pass, ''that'' in the place where it was said, unto them, Ye ''are'' not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.<br>—Romans 9:18-26 (KJV)}}

===They go to Limbo===

===They go to Limbo===