Quote from rcanfiel:
Do all children who die very young go to heaven? Why or why not?
All go to heaven, as previously mentioned. When they go is the question. Children who die go to an awareness that seems like heaven because it is not associated so much with a body. But it is a restricted awareness of Self which is still bogged down with the concept of guilt.
It's important to note that the whole phenomenon of childbirth is not a concept that our Father imposes on us. It is an experience relative to our own concept of guilt, which we impose upon ourselves.
Let me make this clear: Guilt is a really crazy concept. It is conjured up by a kind of insanity. The insanity is invoked by a denial of reality. Really, there is no such thing as guilt. So it is really crazy to insist that you or anyone else is guilty. Sin is simply the denial of reality, leaving the mind to embrace all kinds of crazy concepts, like guilt. Guilt induces fear of punishment...which in turn gives rise to this world which I've called "hell".
And this is the origin of the maxim that children are "born in sin". This is because there would be no such thing as the world, no such thiing as bodies, were in not for the idea that guilt is real, which is really crazy because it denies reality. The "original sin" was the idea that guilt is real, and therefore a world must be built to hide from the inevitable reprisal that must come from God. Pain is a kind of defense against a punishment worse than death. Pain is valued in the same way flaggelents value pain. It is believed to ward off a worse attack from God. The world is a fortified castle to defend against attack for imagined crimes against God, consisting mainly of separation....which is also imagined.
As such, a denial of reality gives rise to a world in which women go through hell to give birth. This phenomenon does not exist in heaven, and therefore does not exist at all except in the minds of those who deny reality.
It's imporant to note that a "child" is an aspect of the mind of Christ which thinks it is guilty. Having denied true Fatherhood to it's creator, mind substitutes Father for "dad", and the phenomenon of family is born. It is a phenomenon born of sin, the denial of reality. In other words, this is all made up in the mind of the Son, who toyed with the idea of separation and guilt, and decided to take is seriously. None of it is real. Therefore, "call no man father".
Children who die simply follow the same patterns as anyone who dies unaware of what is going on. They exist somewhere nice till the concept of guilt comes back around to make them feel aweful. Feeling aweful, each seeks an alternative...some kind of buffer...some kind of hiding place...some kind of salvation. The body serves this purpose well. So the cycle of birth and death continues indefinitely, until at some point the truth sets them free.
Truth breaks this cycle. Death does not. Truth sets free. Truth is accepted or denied. Denial keeps the cycle going. Acceptance breaks it.
Jesus