SUBJECT:  Babies—dead or aborted

QUESTION:  Will dead or aborted babies be in the Resurrection of the dead?

ANSWER:

As you know, it is God's great master plan to make salvation and eternal life available to every human being who has ever lived or will live in the future. He will resurrect those who die without having had this opportunity.

Mr. Herbert W. Armstrong, late pastor general of the Worldwide Church of God, stated that he felt the spirit in man enters at conception.  This is our firm belief also.  It was the belief and preaching of Garner Ted Armstrong.  If, however, after conception, the zygote has the potential to produce a human life, we would logically conclude that babies who die before they are born will be raised in the second resurrection. We do not know this with 100 percent certainty. We do know with certainty, however, that God is merciful and, with His infinite wisdom, will maintain His master plan.

Some have asked, “Just how do you resurrect an aborted fetus?” “Do resurrected women bear them?”  Actually, we have the answer in both the resurrection and the creation of Adam and Eve.

How did God create Adam?  He gave him a body of a young man (18-30) and He gave him language and lots of intelligence and knowledge.  After all, He had him keeping the Garden of Eden and naming all the animals.  We also know that in the resurrection (Second) everyone gets a new body [either healed and made like new or entirely new].  It will not matter if they lived to be 100 years old or died in an atomic bomb blast (vaporized), they will get a new body.  Therefore, the aborted babies will be raised in young bodies and will have all the needed knowledge and intelligence to function and immediately enter into the Salvation Process.

Remember that at the return of Christ and going into the Second Resurrection we all have a new language (Zephaniah 3:9).  Clearly we will not all go to school to learn this language.  We will be given the absolute knowledge of this language immediately.

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