New Born Deaths

[wcbcdi]

I've been seeking an answer to the following question for quite some time, and can't seem to find it in the bible. Why does God allow healthy new borns to suddenly die shortly after birth? Can someone refer me to a scripture I may have missed?

[zarxs]

I'm pretty sure there are no specific passages on that subject. However it's important to remember that all lives impact our own. God has his reasons and we don't aways see what those are. Sometimes it's as simple as causing you to expiriance and learn from something that will become important to you later in life.

I knew a couple that tried and tried and tried to have a child. She miscarried over and over again. It wasn't until through her grief that she turned her eyes to God and became more than a Christian in name that she stopped miscarrying. Once she got her life God centered she finally had a healthy child who grew up.

Children are a blessing, not just for thier existance, but for life expiriance they bring us. I don't know if this is something you have expirianced but I pray you are blessed in the eyes of God.

[SaintSean]

Billions of babies have died, maybe more than people who hath lived. But to answer such a question would only really just be a branch on the "Gods Sovereignty" tree. God knows all, the beginning and the end. We must trust in this, of course no scripture specifically tells us why God allows baby to die in infancy. But if read with a spiritual mind, a mind subject unto a living, just, Omniscient God would read scripture after scripture telling of God's reasons.

Deu 32:39 See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.

The Devil can’t kill anyone in my opinion, only God(because it is his breath that gives us life) can give or take life. Why did God allow all the babies in the flood to be killed? Why did he allow all the babies to be burned back in Israel’s Biblical times unto Molech as sacrifices? Why did God allow babies to be eaten when famine hit the city?(Read about it in Hezekiah's Reign). The Point is, the same reason he spared the city of Nineveh when Jonah wanted it destroyed(for the babies sake), the same reason he allowed all those children to be slaughtered in Egypt(God saved Moses from this), the same reason he took the lives of every first born baby as a sign to Pharaoe; the same reason he saved our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ from death when Herod ordered the slaying of infants. God is Sovereign, and no one can council him. He just knows better. Imagine if Hitler, or Ahab, or Saddam Hussain had been killed as a child according to God's will?? Many Tyrants have never even made it to walking stage, why? God knows the future, and he is sovereign. And who can plead the cause of the potters clay, except the potter? It is his to do with what he pleases.

When we see verses like this:
2Sa 12:15 And Nathan departed unto his house. And the LORD struck the child that Uriah's wife bare unto David, and it was very sick.

We must also read verses like this:
Exo 4:11 And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD?

Then verses like these for closure:
Eph 1:11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

Being servants of Our Lord Jesus Christ, it is HIS will that shall be done, not ours. And it is with the same faith we professed Jesus Christ as Lord over our soul and life, that we have faith that an Almighty God knows the better for these children's lives than we do. I believe this is why he allows the taking of these children’s lives.
God bless you with wisdom my brother :)

[Daytimeson23]

The answer is simple,

Job 14:5 - Seeing his days [are] determined, the number of his months [are] with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass

1 Samuel 2:6 - The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up

[dill987]

I almost died at birth.But i'm here now

[servant_of_the_end]

There is a purpose for all things that happen. If a man runs in front of a car to push a 3 year old out of harms way and dies while saving the child, the mans obituary will note he died from a fatal hit by a car. The reader will never know that he died saving a child. The death of Jesus on the cross appeared to those who didn't know the Lord as punishment for a crime, but the real purpose was to die in place of us as a sacrifice for sin for the redemption of our souls for reconciliation to God. As with the child there is always purpose but sometimes we can't perceive the reasons for tragedy. But know this, God knows all and you'll have the chance to ask Him yourself about a specific death when you stand before him. That is if you are not there to receive judgement.

servant of the end