For millions of people, to acknowledge the humanity of the preborn child is to experience genuine remorse over abortion. It creates a thirst to know if and how God can forgive. And it leads to a question, asked with a blood-earnest sincerity, “What happened to my baby?”
It’s often the first question I’m asked when teaching in countries plagued by abortion and a part of most people’s experience. The answer within various traditions of orthodox Christianity spans from heaven and hell, to somewhere in between (limbo). Nowhere does the Bible address this question directly and explicitly. My answer begins with what the Bible makes clear about the eternal destiny of all people and then adds what the Bible infers about babies who die.
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