re: #639 Salamantis

The cosmic cruelty and injustice is in having to spend their short lives in excruciating agony.

What’s a couple of years he would endure anyway when there is an eternity of Bliss following? In Christian theology, life doesn’t end when the body dies.

God would also have to have decided to allow that child’s soul damage to happen,

So what part of free will did you not understand? Over and above the Original Sin, which Jesus will take if asked, sin is a choice that one actively makes. It would be hard indeed for nearly all young children to have formed the intent to sin even if they have the ability.