Jeremiah 1:4-5
God Knows Us Before We Are Born
4 The word of the Lord came to me, saying,
5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,
before you were born I set you apart;
I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
Matthew 19:13-15
Little Children and Jesus
13 Then people brought little children to Jesus for him to place his hands on them and pray for them. But the disciples rebuked them.
14 Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.” 15 When he had placed his hands on them, he went on from there.
God knows us before we were born, and before we have sinned...We have taken no action and deeds before we are born...Jesus, in this context, said to let the children come to Him, and do not hinder them; for to such children the kingdom of heaven...
God has Middle Knowledge which was talked about many, many years ago...Middle knowledge is a form of knowledge first attributed to God by the sixteenth century Jesuit theologian Luis de Molina...Middle knowledge is so named because it comes between natural and free knowledge in God's deliberations regarding the creative process...
On the question of those children who die at birth and before their birth, William Craig James says this and it has to do with God’s Middle Knowledge...“The middle knowledge solution is not, however, a good one, for the simple reason that a person cannot be condemned for something he has never done...For example, had I been born in Nazi Germany, maybe I would have become a member of the Hitlerjugendand committed atrocities... But God will never judge me for such crimes because I never actually committed them!...We can be judged guilty only of wrongs we have actually done.”...