#293. Kitchen Table Talk: Infant Faith

Do infants have saving faith? Can they be counted as full members of the Body of Christ?

These are some of the thorniest questions Christian parents and grandparents face, especially since they tend to arise at some of life's most painful moments: after miscarriage, in cases of extreme disability, or when a child has tragically died before Baptism.

In this Kitchen Table Talk conversation, Chaplain Sean Daenzer returns to the Lounge to offer theological hope and comfort for those agonizing over these kinds of questions — comfort based not on human reason or empirical evidence, but on the sure Word of God.

How do infants and young children figure into the Kingdom of God? What role does Baptism play in salvation? How have nonbiblical concepts like “limbo” and the so-called “age of accountability” shaped how our culture thinks and talks about infant salvation? And how, given all that Scripture says about infant belief, can parents from conception onward begin passing on the faith to their prenatal and infant children?

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