@FrLillie Why the sudden interest in this morbid and vainglorious discussion surrounding the incoherent and blasphemous roman catholic doctrine?

@TheThinkerSC Idk. Have my thoughts but they are unhelpful.

@FrLillie Unbaptized infants can not inherit the Kingdom of heaven. Although they don't commit personal sins, they also can not produce any virtues.

@MichaelS1453 It’s not a binary of saved (Kingdom of Heaven) or damned (Hell), there are degrees of reward and punishment to come.

@FrLillie I am confident that all of us promoting the traditional and canonical view of this topic would affirm that we are more sinful and deserving of punishment than any infant who dies without baptism.

@FrLillie As Orthodox, we don't subscribe to original sin (implies that God creates our human nature as evil) we subscribe to ancestral sin. Want to make sure that we aren't confusing the two? Per my knowledge, Augustine is wrong on the topic of original sin, we aren't born w evil nature.

@FrLillie I thought the Orthodox Church did not believe in Original Sin.

@JarrettMiller12 This is an accurate response.

@7thdayvacantist It is in the same vain. God is merciful!

@FrLillie My response to "Whom would you be most surprised to see in Heaven?" remains "Me!"

@FrLillie Yes!

@FrLillie Definitely. And the example is the thief on the cross and the little children ‘for theirs is the kingdom on heaven.’ We do what we can to avail ourselves of all his divine mysteries, and we let God be God for those who couldn’t for whatever reason.

@FrLillie People will call our God the God of mercy, love and grace, then ascribe the most horrid, spiteful judgements in His name

@FrLillie Agreed

@FrLillie and that's the whole truth

@FrLillie @RRR0BYN Every child is innocent and when death comes, the child goes directly to Heaven. Baptism is not required.

@FrLillie Dude are you in Old calendar or New? Orthodox Christian only follow the old calendar

@FrLillie I found some comfort in Genesis 18:25 used in such a context: "Far be it from You to do such a thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike. Far be it from You! Shall not the Judge of all the earth deal justly?"