To the extent that Hitler’s spirit was naturally inclined to be a sadistic monster, that would have manifested itself even at a relatively young age. Baby Hitler, to my way of thinking, wouldn’t be getting a free pass anywhere.

To the extent that Hitler’s evil was in fact a product of his life experiences–poverty, traumatic experiences in WW1, or whatever–then Adult Hitler’s situation at the final judgment may not be appreciably more dire than would Baby Hitler’s.

–Jim

Infants who die in infancy are deemed to be too pure to need much time in mortality. Many choose maybe to die so that they could change the heart of one or more people to God.

I like your last statement about Heavenly Father winning in the end. It brings to mind Moses 1:39. I envision a Celestial Kingdom with numbers that are as great as the stars in the heaven or the sands on the seashore! All we have to do is believe and we shall not perish (die second death) but shall have eternal life. How many in the end will look and believe? I think it will just about be everyone. Helaman 12:23-26 thinks almost all will have eternal life also, all except the very few who are cast out.

Check out my blog- rockofsalvation.blogspot.com if you want a slightly different take on salvation. I would post more here, but I would be hijacking the thread. You seem interested though!

Also we should be happy that so many of HF’s children are saved in the CK. I think a great deal of the discomfort that one hears about this idea is simply jealousy.

“Its not fair that my life is so hard and that infant who died at age 2 months gets to go to the CK”

I believe it was BY who taught that in the end HF wins and more souls than most of us think will be in the CK.

The “world to come” as mentioned earlier will be the terrestrial kingdom which exists during the millennium. That kingdom/world is specifically designed to allow children to grow and make the choices for their own salvation and exaltation possible. It is also the place where we continue on our path of eternal life by learning how to live Celestial law and becoming perfect.

We apparently don’t understand everything that pertains to this matter. To be exalted, you must be sealed in the temple. Those that don’t have that opportunity on this earth can have it done vicariously. Same with their baptisms. However, we don’t do baptisms in the temple for children who die before 8. I don’t know what this implies, but it seems it should shed some light on our issue.

Moroni (or Mormon) seemed pretty clear on the issue. Children don’t need that ordinance. The atonement covers it. It seems we run into problems when we try to justify coverage of the atonement for certain groups (which we probably shouldn’t be doing anyway). Are we ultimately getting hung up on the justice of some of those souls deserving all the blessings of the atonement, while the rest of us are in danger every day of screwing up our own rights to those same blessings?

If the Lord says “They get the blessings,” then we say “Wait, why? Were they all great souls in the pre-existence? If not, it’s not fair.” We don’t really know what goes into it, and when we try to guess either way, we seem to get stuck. Just my observation.

A terrifying summary of where all of this can take us theologically if we’re not careful.