Do children go to hell?

This text is from a transcript of a talk by David Gooding, entitled ‘God’s Glorious Plan for Creation’ (2007).

I prefer to keep to what the Bible says. God gave his Son to die on the cross that people might be saved, and his desire is that all should be saved and come to repentance (see 2 Peter 3:9). When he was here on earth, our blessed Lord said, 'Let the children come to me, and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God' (Luke 18:16). God will save everybody he can, by definition. 'It is not the will of [your] Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish' (Matthew 18:14). I am in no position to say at what age a child comes to responsibility such that they might decide, just as they might rebel against their parents, to rebel against God. I must say that the Bible is clear about the issue, 'Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him' (John 3:36). It's up to God to decide the individual cases. But we are asked to believe what God says and, if we are Christians, to do our utmost to lead other people to Christ, and parents will want to do that particularly for their children.