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Correct. It is really a litmus test of what it means to keep the law according to God's definition rather than the definition of this rich young ruler. The rich young ruler claimed to be "good" claimed to have kept all the commandments and yet did not understand he was claiming to be "good" as God but "there is none good but one and that is God." The command to go sell all that he has and give to the poor" - would require complete dependent faith in God to sustain him since he would have nothing but God if he obeyed this. It would require him to love his neighbor as himself to give all his riches to the poor. To obey the command "come and follow me" would require faith in Christ as His Savior. This test would also determine his TRUE RICHES as well as demonstrate obedience to the first five commandments toward God and the second five commandments toward men. However, lost men are RICH IN SELF WORTH and no man has this capability to turn against themselves any more than a camel can go through the eye of a needle as this is impossible for men because they are totally depraved and it is only possibly by the power of God.

 

You are wrong! Note the words "YOU turn and BECOME LIKE children"


The contextual "YOU" are his apostles. The words "become like" are terms of a simile. Again, he is simply using children to teach spiritual truth about the children of God.

The littles ones were old enough to willingly to come to him, they are not infants. Second, "not....one of these little ones should perish" if applied your way would assume every single one of them eventually embraced the gospel and were saved OR they all died before the age of discernability so that none
rejected the gospel because "NOT.....ONE....should perish."

He is simply using literal children to illustrate the characteristics of spritiual children none of which shall perish.

This does not affirm that ALL CHILDREN grow up and are saved because hell would be empty if that were the case. This affirms that out of that category "of such" there are some in heaven who presumably died as children. Baptists would assume they are those chosen by God, his elect, while not all "of such" which continued to live and grow up as adults were such elect.

 

The same children that were brought to him he says don't forbid them to "come" to him in the very next verse.

Hence, that leaves them in no different category than anyone else.

 

The very same Greek term is translated "damsel" in Mark 5:39 And when he was come in, he saith unto them, Why make ye this ado, and weep? the damsel <3813> is not dead, but sleepeth.

The very same term is used to describe children sitting in the market place who are old enough to talk and mock others:

Lu 7:32 They are like unto children <3813> sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.

I don't think you have any absolute proof that demands this text must mean they are infants. However, the term can definitely include "infants."

 

First 3 classes stayed sinners and lost, only 4th group were the saved by the grace of God...

 

NO! proof that God is saying that JUST as little children trust completely in thier earthly fathers, those of the Kingdom of God need to and will trust completely their heavenly Father to be saved !

 

No, reread his statement. He is saying exactly what I said. The first three represent religious lost while the fourth soil represents only the saved and variations between the saved in fruit production.