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1 | Age of accountability? | Is 7:16 | ChildofGod1988 | 204077 | ||
I was wondering if anyone had information, opinions, or ... anything really, in regards to the age of accountability? Thanks for your time. God bless :) | ||||||
2 | Age of accountability? | Is 7:16 | Tamara Brewington | 204084 | ||
This seems to be answered but I wanted to put my two cents in. I believe that whenever a child becomes aware they are a sinner is qualifying as their own age of accountability. My son reached his at age 7 and the pastor was careful to test his statement that at 7 he was saying he knew for sure that he was a sinner who needed salvation and that he was asking Jesus for forgiveness of sins. This testing process took three whole months and included my son walking up to me and saying, Mom, I need to know Romes 10, God is telling me I need Romes 10. So we got down on the couch and I read Romans 10 to him and when I got to the part that say, if you confess with your mouth Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart He died and was raised on the third day, you will be saved, he jumped up off the couch and said, that's it, that's it, that's what I need! The a month later he comes to me and says, Mom, God says I need John 3. So we got on the couch again and read John 3, and when we got to the part that says, for God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life, my son jumped off the couch again and said, that's what I am looking for Mom, I want to get saved! I told the pastor all this, he had been praying how to discern if my son was really taking Jesus for his savior with a true knowledge of what it all means. So he kept taking my son up to the pastor's office and talking with him over the space of those three months. At the end he decided my son knew what he was saying and my son got down on his knees at home without me leading him and asked for forgivness and was baptized at 7 years old and was given full rights as a believer in Christ. It all started one day when the altar call came and he tried to move past me in the pew to get out and go forward and I told him he had to wait to go to the bathroom and he said, "Mom, let me by I need to go to the front becuase I need to get saved". There are no scriptures in the Bible telling you what the age of accountability is. Denominations differ and many say 12 is the age, some say it is 16. But I warn you, God will do whatever He wants to do and if He wants to call someone earlier He will. You have to be willing to be open to whatever God is doing and test that child, you and your pastor, test that child, find out if they know what they are talking about. Be careful, the Bible says in Mathew 19:14, "Let the children alone, and do not hinder them from coming to Me; for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these". God Bless, Tamara |
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