After Nathan's confrontation, David and Bathsheba watch their newborn son grow sick and, on the seventh day, die — and David's response stuns his own servants: he stops fasting, gets up, washes, worships, and eats. Stephen Davey uses David's grief in 2 Samuel 12 to tackle one of the hardest questions a believer faces — do babies who die really go to heaven? Working from Psalm 139, he shows David describing his own formation in the womb as the deliberate handiwork of God, and argues that life, and personhood, begin at conception. From there he walks through what scripture does and doesn't say about infants, sin, and salvation, landing on David's own confidence that his son wasn't lost, only gone ahead. "I shall go to him," David says, "but he will not return to me" — and Davey leaves grieving parents with that same hope of reunion.
Do Babies Really Go To Heaven? (Part 2)
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