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How do you know that? The text does not go into a theological discussion. A common teaching among the Jews (sorry, I don't know when it originated but it seems to be an ancient teaching) was that the souls of the dead go to "the place of the dead" (sheol in the Hebrew) which was divided into...

God considers innocent animals--see Jonah 4:11.

You are forgetting about all the innocent animals who died in the Flood--I didn't.

I can see how your theology fits into neat little boxes, whereas mine is probably less restrictive. I think ALL love comes from God since He IS love. (1 John 4:8)

Perhaps we have gotten to the heart of this situation. Love and concern for her baby comes from where?

What if she suspected the baby was ill?

I think you are making arbitrary distinctions. What if I was a young mother, woken by the sound of my baby crying, and I chose to tell myself, "He/she will go back to sleep," and then rolled over and went back to sleep. Tell me, was that a trivial choice that I made or was it a moral choice?

When a Christian dies in an earthquake or hurricane, who is responsible?

I see no difference between them. "Free will" is often the term chosen to apply to moral choices but I see no Biblical warrant for supposing that a human being cannot choose to do good as well as to do evil. Did God force Adam and Eve to do evil? I think we have a "helper" in the Holy Spirit...

No--the New Jerusalem is heaven come to earth--the permanent dwelling place for the Father, and Son as well as all of God's resurrected people. It will be 1,400 miles high, 1,400 miles deep and 1,400 miles wide and its walls will be 200 feet thick. There will be no need for lamps, sun or moon...

I thought Calvinists do not believe in "free agency"? I guess some do and some don't?

No--because I believe that the Blood of Jesus was certainly shed for those who were/are incapable of choosing.

If God "permits" something to happen, He still willed to permit it. See James 4:15 for confirmation of what I have said.

Are you saying that the children of believers are saved from birth?? That turns the gospel on its head.

It is NOT my accusation--it is my observation. (See Job 9:22 for evidence--Job actually calls himself innocent--"blameless" in Job 9:21) God could have prevented the killing of the righteous martyrs, but He did not. He did not contravene the will of wicked men to murder them. The wicked are...

It is hyperbolic to suggest that they were that way from birth. Jesus loved the little children and blessed them--He did NOT scold them for their supposed sin. He wasn't shy about scolding others over their sin, was He?

Yes--Peter was "the apostle to the Jews" just as Paul was the "apostle to the Gentiles" (see Galatians 2:7-8). It is nearly certain that Peter was speaking to the Jewish (and possibly even the Israelite) diaspora of Asia Minor (present-day Turkey) in the opening chapter of 1 Peter (our hint is...

Much of the Psalms take a bit of poetic license otherwise you'd have to believe that newborn babies "lie" and "spit venom like deadly snakes." I never saw a newborn do either of those things--have you? A favorite accusation of Calvinists toward non-Calvinists is that they "take verses out of...

Careful now, since you have judged David's sons, to be fair, you need to judge John Calvin by the same standard. Isn't this what Jesus was referring to when He told His followers to "judge but judge rightly"?

Those who have not sinned are innocent. Every child is born innocent and becomes corrupted by this corrupt world "bad company corrupts good character" (1 Corinthians 15:33). That is why Jesus reserves some of His harshest words for those who would corrupt children--saying that it would be...