Question
Our listeners asked: are infants saved from original sin if they die before baptism? For 10 points each:
[10e] We confirmed that it is (emphasize) not Catholic doctrine that unbaptized infants end up in this location, which holds souls that are not damned but cannot enter Heaven. It is sometimes depicted as an outer circle of Hell.
ANSWER: Limbo
[10m] We then checked this theologian’s On the Merits and Remission of Sin, which says that unbaptized infants burn in hell, but less than other sinners. A book by this author of On the Trinity contrasts an “earthly” locale with a community of pilgrims.
ANSWER: Saint Augustine [or Saint Augustine of Hippo or Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis] (The book is The City of God.)
[10h] Finally, we checked the Westminster Confession – most widely used as a doctrinal standard in (emphasize) this denomination – which says that elect infants can be saved without baptism.
ANSWER: Presbyterianism [or Presbyterian Church; accept Church of Scotland; prompt on Calvinism or Nonconformism or Dissenters]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Berkeley | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 6.67 | 33% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 33% | 33% | 67% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU | 01/27/2024 | Y | 10 | 10.00 | 50% | 30% | 20% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska | 01/27/2024 | Y | 6 | 11.67 | 50% | 50% | 17% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 6.67 | 33% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 6.00 | 0% | 40% | 20% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial | 01/27/2024 | Y | 8 | 12.50 | 63% | 50% | 13% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 10.00 | 20% | 60% | 20% |
Data
| Columbia C | Johns Hopkins | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Haverford | NYU A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Vassar | John Jay | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Penn | NYU B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia A | Rowan | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |