tom: We do seem to be speaking past one another.

tom: It seems to me you're thinking Christ wasn't tempted like we are in these matters, that temptation was easy for Him. But it's very likely I'm not understanding you, so perhaps you could clarify.

Then babies and children before the age of accountability do not need a savior.

tom: It seems to me you're thinking Christ wasn't tempted like we are in these matters, that temptation was easy for Him. But it's very likely I'm not understanding you, so perhaps you could clarify.

t:if you could get past the temptation part and say if you think Jesus liked sin.

As one of us He was to give an example of obedience. For this He took upon Himself our nature, and passed through our experiences. "In all things it behooved Him to be made like unto His brethren." Heb. 2:17. If we had to bear anything which Jesus did not endure, then upon this point Satan would represent the power of God as insufficient for us. Therefore Jesus was "in all points tempted like as we are." Heb. 4:15. He endured every trial to which we are subject.(DA 24)

Why does the faith of the parents need to cover the children if they are "innocent" (not lost, according to the LGT)?

Christ blessed the children brought to Him by the faithful mothers. He will do this now if mothers will do their duty to their children and teach their children and educate them in obedience and submission. Then they will bear the test and will be obedient to the will of God, for parents stand in the place of God to their children. {3SM 314.3}

Some parents allow Satan to control their children, and their children are not restrained, but are allowed to have wicked tempers, to be passionate, selfish, and disobedient. Should they die these children would not be taken to heaven. The parent's course of action is determining the future welfare of their children. If they allow them to be disobedient and passionate they are allowing Satan to take them in charge and work through them as shall please his satanic majesty, and these children, never educated to obedience and to lovely traits of character, will not be taken to heaven, for the same temper and disposition would be revealed in them. {3SM 314.4}

I said to Brother Matteson, "Whether all the children of unbelieving parents will be saved we cannot tell, because God has not made known His purpose in regard to this matter, and we had better leave it where God has left it and dwell upon subjects made plain in His Word." {3SM 315.1}

Why does the faith of the parents need to cover the children if they are innocent?

Nobody will be saved without the efficacy of Christ's blood, including children.

He took in His grasp the world over which Satan claimed to preside as his lawful territory, and by His wonderful work in giving His life, He restored the whole race of men to favor with God.(1SM 343)

"The parents evidenced their faith in implicitly obeying the directions given them, and the faith of the parents covered themselves and their children." {3SM 314.1}

Parents chose to obey and they and their children were sealed by the blood of Lamb.

Nowhere, neither here nor elsewhere, does Ellen White ever suggest that Christ's blood covered these innocent children because of their guilty birth-natures.

Sin is in every fiber of our being by nature. We are born in sin, and our life is sin, so that sin can not be taken from us without taking our life. What I need is freedom from my own personal sin,--that sin which not only has been committed by me personally, but which dwells in the heart,--the sin which constitutes the whole of my life. (The Glad Tidings)

1) One person's obedience can be credited to another, resulting in being sealed?
2) If the children are innocent, what exactly did Christ's blood cover?

"The parents evidenced their faith in implicitly obeying the directions given them, and the faith of the parents covered themselves and their children." {3SM 314.1}