Help with my teacher!

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In history, we’ve been learning about the Second Great Awakening and Deism.

Well my history teacher, a very nice, funny guy asked this question: “I’ve really never understood how you could say that an infant who dies or how a poor person who never heard of Jesus could end up in hell. Does anyone have any explanation?”

Okay, I know that sounded like he was acting in a rude away. But he wasn’t. Like I said above, he is very nice, very FUNNY, and everyone likes him. He acted very serious and concerned with this question.

(I really don’t remember how we even got to this. He was talking about deism and about how they had valid claims for using reason and not the bible, etc.)

WELL the rest of the entire period consisted of students raising their hands trying to answer. And the teacher talked about other things like religion being very personal, and we shouldn’t judge…etc. He even talked about evolution and science.

So I went up to him at the end of class and said that I would find an answer for him (about the infant and poor person—could they go to heaven?) I even mentioned invincible ignorance and barely explained that. But I guess it was okay enough, because he said “now that’s the best answer I’ve heard yet”

**SO…MY QUESTION. Can anyone point to a good article that explains invincible ignorance, non-Christians being saved, how an infant could be saved, etc.?

I’ve searched Catholic Answers but the articles have more to do with the “No Salvation Outside the Church” controversy.**

THANK YOU!
 
Just tell him that God is neither an idiot, nor an impersonal “force” - nobody will go to Hell who doesn’t actually deserve to go. Everyone who dies is held in His loving and capable hands. 🙂
 
Here is what the Catechism says:

1261 As regards children who have died without Baptism, the Church can only entrust them to the mercy of God, as she does in her funeral rites for them. Indeed, the great mercy of God who desires that all men should be saved, and Jesus’ tenderness toward children which caused him to say: "Let the children come to me, do not hinder them,"64 allow us to hope that there is a way of salvation for children who have died without Baptism. All the more urgent is the Church’s call not to prevent little children coming to Christ through the gift of holy Baptism.

God’s Peace
 
Thanks so far.

But are there any article* suggestions? Any online resources?

Thanks
 
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