There is a lot of strange theology about the Lamb's Book of Life. Like no one has ever read the word of God on it. I challenge you to do the work. Google or take your Strong's out and read every single word in THE WORD regarding this issue. Then after you have done so... you will come to the same conclusion I have:
Every person's name from the time they are conceived is written in the Lambs Book of Life. Every One.
This will help explain the question about dying babies and the aborted eternal fate.
Baptism of babies does not help (nor hinder) any eternal destiny any more than a dedication to God of a child does. It's tradition mostly for the parents and grandparents who were badly taught.
After sin entered the earth, we are all born in iniquity, not sin. We have a tendency in our flesh to sin. That's what iniquity is. A tendency to be twisted (the real meaning of iniquity). Sin is not misbehavior. We teach our children badly when we tell them this. Sin is a conscious act of disobedience against God. One that distances you or me from God. One that without redemption has the capacity to trap us and drag us away from Him until our heart is hardened.
Our sins were already been paid for on the cross. Our capacity to enter into this redemption is not accepting Christ, but coming to grips with the sin in our lives and the hopeless state we are in. At that point asking for Jesus to Forgive us and entering into our salvation. After that is a walk of faith that takes years. One that requires much soul searching. One that means we have to find that place in God that makes our sonship sure (or daughtership if there is such a word). Working out our salvation. We are just as saved, but we must stay diligent.
Since your name was already in the book of life since the before the earth was formed.. he declared your name, when you come into your salvation it's not RE written. It's just certain.
The only way your name is NOT found in the book is if there is a legal reason for it to be expunged. The one who has the right to claim the expunging is the Devil, Satan, the Accuser of the Brethren. IF there is no capacity for defense (this one's mine) you are blotted out. If he makes the claim that it cannot be there because you have rejected your salvation, there is no hope. Your sin doesn't condemn you. Your positional salvation or lack of it does. It's a legal issue.
Once your name is certain in the book because you have entered in to the best of your knowledge, can you lose your place because of sin.. ? NO Your sin has been paid for. It does have the capacity to rob you of intimacy with God but your position is secure. I know this seems like dangerous ground, but the opposite is actually true, if you are secure in Jesus you WON'T sin. or will try not to.
Can you loose your salvation? YES but it is very difficult (you would have to renounce Jesus and his Price Paid for your sin) and once you are a child of God He will not let you out of His sight easily nor out of His hand...even if He has to kill you beforehand. That has happened.
Your name has always been in the Lambs Book.. not to be expunged as you are reading this that is unlikely.
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If you studied the lambs book of life then you would see two incidents where The resurrected Lord threatens two churches one blotting their name out the other is the greek word for spew forth. Jesus said this no man enters the kingdom unless He be born again. notice He did not say child. those aborted never had a chance and I would say God made provision for that. Those so young they could not develop I would say God had a plan for that. So this is commonly missed in America intermediate judgment- communion. Some may be saved with fear . the phrase not having is to those who received the truth,, hence pauls weeping for those who despise the cross and warning know you not that you are bought by the blood if any man created to be the temple of the holy Spirit him shall God destroy. as dereck prince says destroy is almost always separation from God. any way back to the phrase not having which appears several times in the new testament. I will use several Words connected to several scriptural warning about how we treat the HolySpirit that is the some and just as accurate in the original language but phrased different in English. so grieving vexing resisting treating with contempt or despite. all warnings that accurately define not having in the original language. The apostles simply expanded on what Jesus taught....
21For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not come to know God, God was well-pleased through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe.1 Corinthians 2:14
The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.James 4:4
You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.18For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
2 Corinthians 2:15
For we are to God the pleasing aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing.
2 Corinthians 4:3
And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.
No man comes to the Father unless the Father draw Him. A scary reality
IS YOUR NAME WRITTEN IN THE LAMB'S BOOK OF LIFE? BY STEVE FINNELL
Who will be allowed to enter the great city, the holy Jerusalem, when time will no longer exist?
Revelation 21:9-27..... 10 And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the great city , the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God........27 But there shall by no means enter it anything that defiles, or causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb's Book of Life.(NKJV)
That narrows it down. You do not have to speculate about that which defiles. You do not have to wonder what or who causes an abomination or a lie. If your name is not written in the Lamb's Book of Life you are the guilty one.
Philippians 4:3 And I urge you also, true companion, help these women who labored with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers whose names are in the Book of Life.(NKJV)
Whose names are written in the Lamb's Book of Life? All of those whose sins have been washed away by the blood of the Lamb have their names written in the Book of Life.
How do men get their sins washed away?
1. Faith: John 3:16
2. Repentance: Acts 3:19, Acts 2:38
3. Confession:Romans 10:9
4. Water Baptism: Acts 2:38, Acts 22:16, 1 Peter 3:21, Ephesians 5:25-27
Having your name written on the membership role of your local church does not guarantee that your name will be written in the Lamb's Book of Life.
Your name might be written in the book at the Baptist Church, the Lutheran Church, the Mosque, the Catholic Church, the Temple of Freemasonry, the Methodist church, the Elks Lodge, the Salvation Army, the Mormon Church, the Buddhist Temple, the Community Church, the Christian Church, the Synagogue, etc., however, if your name is not written in the Lamb's Book of Life you will not be allowed into the holy city, the new Jerusalem.
Revelation 3:1-5......."He who overcomes shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the Book of Life; but I will confess his name before My Father and His angels.(NKJV)
Yes, your name can be erased from the Book of Like.
Revelation 13:4-8 So they worshiped the dragon who gave authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast.....8 And all who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.(NKJV)
At the end times all who do not not have their names written in the Book of Life will worship the beast.
There are men today who worship false gods. There are men, even now, who worship the Pope, the Virgin Mary and other dead saints by praying to them.
Is your name written in the Lamb's Book of Life? If not, you will not be entering the holy city, the new Jerusalem
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