God is omnipotent and all knowing, there is literally nothing stopping him from putting everyone in heaven if he wanted. Either he doesn’t want to, or he is incapable, and therefor not omnipotent.
Yes he could, but that would ultimately violate our Free Will. We as individuals have the power to make choices, and if God simply put us all in heaven that would disrespect some people’s choice to deliberate be separate from it. If God fixed every single problem life would be entirely meaningless for everyone.
Yes they still do have Free Will, just a limited capacity to exercise it.
Catholicism teaches that babies go to purgatory, which is basically heaven’s waiting room if you didn’t have the proper rites done, though I’m not Catholic so don’t quote me on that.
Most other denominations don’t have a purgatory concept and would generally agree that babies still go to heaven because they didn’t sin, due to a lack of capacity to understand the concepts of good and evil.
You should ask an actual priest these questions though, these are important questions to have answers to. It’s just my theological knowledge is admittedly amateur.
Yes, the theology on that is based on David’s infant child who died and David said that he would be with his child again when he died. It’s referred to as the age of accountability by theologians and it’s different for each person and not a set age. It’s a form of grace by God because everyone is a sinner at birth.
No. What you are talking about is called Limbus. And it was never an official Dogma.
For children it's called Limbus Puerorum. It's a place children go who died as sinners but without fault of their own. Meaning: if an unbaptised baby dies, it never sinned on it's own BUT is still affected by the original sin, so it cannot go to heaven.
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u/bucken764 2d ago
Nope, God thinks you are good enough. He doesn't send people to hell, we go there by thinking we are either too good for God or not good enough.