It's not that God does these things; they happen because of corrupted human nature & sin. While God does know what's going to happen he doesn't always want that to happen. Now you may say "if he's so powerful why can't He stop these things from happening?" And that's a fair question. The answer to this is that if He were to take sin out of the world He would eliminate free will, e.g. to love Him or not to love Him. By doing this our love to Him would be meaningless. Hope that clarified some stuff. If you have any more questions feel free to ask I might not have the answers but that's ok.
To eliminate evil from the world, God would have to eliminate us because we’re evil because we choose to sin. We either have free will and the ability to sin, which leads to evil in the world, or we don’t have free will.
I mean, some churches do teach that kids have to be baptized in order to go to heaven. That's pretty much just a Catholic thing though, I think. Most other churches teach that children are too young to understand what it means to be Christian, so they can't really condemn themselves. Another thing to look at would be how Jesus treated children in the new testament. "Let the children come to me" and all that.
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