Peter Sammons and the Reformed View of the Damnation of Infants

  

In modern times parents neglect gospel teaching to their children. They assume that their child is innocent, harmless, and therefore undeserving of divine judgment. But parents ought to be warned this sort of thinking could be very dangerous because the Bible does not give a clear-cut age of accountability. This is not to say that all infants go to hell, but it ought to be a warning that if a child is old enough to be saved then they are most certainly old enough to be damned.

 

There are many children who are saved at the ages of five, seven, or eleven, and therefore it is safe to say that if these same children had not been saved then they would have been damned because all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God (Rom. 3:23). (Peter Sammons, Reprobation and God’s Sovereignty: Recovering a Biblical Doctrine [Grand Rapids, Mich.: Kregel Academic, 2022], 44-45)