“How Many Little Children Have Died Without Baptism”

Jana Reiss

Mormon uses even stronger language here to declare that little children are “alive in Christ”; not only are they without sin, but they are spiritually attuned and receptive to Christ. Mormon also opines that a God who condemns small children just because they had not been baptized would be a “partial” and “changeable” God, because so many babies and little children die without benefit of baptism.

The Book of Mormon: Selections Annotated & Explained

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