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1 | how can we know children go to heaven? | Acts 16:31 | CDBJ | 179166 | ||
Greetings Mark, Here is another train of thought. The only thing that can condemn a person, since the Lamb of God, Jesus, died for man’s deplorable condition, is rejecting God’s plan, which involves Christ and the work that he did on the cross. 1 John 2:2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. The issue for mankind, since the sacrifice of Christ, isn’t a sin issue, per se, but what one thinks of Christ and the work He accomplished. Speaking of the Holy Spirit, Jesus says; John 16:8 (A) And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, John 16:9 Of sin, because they believe not on me; This is the only issue that will eliminate one from entering heaven, i.e. It is in essence, the rejection of God only plan for mankind’s eternal future. Acts 4:12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. What I am saying in effect is, there are those that haven’t come to a point of accountability in their lives; they actually haven’t rejected God’s plan of salvation in Christ. Example: John 1:11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not. Those in the previous verse said no to God’s plan by rejected Christ; the antithesis to rejecting Christ is accepting Him. Do you think this could be a possibility, since infants “haven’t” rejected the plan of God that God is able to impute His righteousness to them? They never made the decision to refuse God’s mercy and grace. It would be like, and this is a poor example, an unconscious person floating in an ocean in a life vest and they are pulled onboard by a rescue ship, in the middle of the night and all this is unbeknown to the one being rescued. Food for thought, CDBJ |
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2 | Numbers 14:29 is this the age of acc...? | Acts 16:31 | kw5kw | 179193 | ||
Ok, Mark you brought up the age of accountability. Here is something that I've been think about, contliplating, and studying some more. Back to the desert where God is dispensing His judgement on the Hebrews who rejected the report of the two spies and took the word of the eight other spies over the word of the LORD. This is something that has really stuck with me... pay close attention to verse 29 in the following excerpt from Numbers Chapter xiv. Num 14:20 The LORD responded, "I have pardoned them as you requested. Num 14:21 Yet as surely as I live and as the whole earth is filled with the LORD's glory, Num 14:22 none of the men who have seen My glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tested Me these 10 times and did not obey Me, Num 14:23 will ever see the land I swore to give their fathers. None of those who have despised Me will see it. Num 14:24 But since My servant Caleb has a different spirit and has followed Me completely, I will bring him into the land where he has gone, and his descendants will inherit it. Num 14:25 Since the Amalekites and Canaanites are living in the lowlands, turn back tomorrow and head for the wilderness in the direction of the Red Sea." Num 14:26 Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron: Num 14:27 "How long must I endure this evil community that keeps complaining about Me? I have heard the Israelites' complaints that they make against Me. Num 14:28 Tell them: As surely as I live, declares the LORD, I will do to you exactly as I heard you say. Num 14:29 Your corpses will fall in this wilderness--all of you who were registered in the census, the entire number of you 20 years old or more--because you have complained about Me. Num 14:30 I swear that none of you will enter the land I promised to settle you in, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun. Num 14:31 I will bring your children whom you said would become plunder into the land you rejected, and they will enjoy it. Num 14:32 But as for you, your corpses will fall in this wilderness. Does anyone take this any further as being the age of accountability? That up until, and I saw this related to in Proverbs somewhere, but at this moment I can't find it to relate it here. Any thought? |
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3 | Numbers 14:29 is this the age of acc...? | Acts 16:31 | mark d seyler | 179206 | ||
Hi Russ, I don't think that there is the Scriptural foundation to apply this generally, beyond the specific event at the time. I know many people have pointed to this passage as an indicator of an "age of accountability", but we can only arrive at that if we presuppose God's reason for choosing age 20 and above for the census. It would be an age of accountability IF God had them number only those who were accountable. But what if God had them number those who were of fighting age? Those who were of "voting age"? We have an "age of majority", where we hold people legally accountable for their actions, and we only allow those people to vote. Maybe this was something like that, and God only held responsible the "voting population", but this was unrelated to whether or not someone was able to distinguish right from wrong, and God's requirement that they do what is right. I'm just saying we don't know, because the information isn't given in the text. What do you think? Love in Christ, Mark |
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4 | May we take another short look at this? | Acts 16:31 | kw5kw | 179337 | ||
Mark, In looking at how frivolous the young people of this, and any generation for that matter, are, how rebellious and how seemingly that many, many of them are remarkably turned around at approximately the ages between nineteen and twenty-one. We have this verse in Psalms: Psalms xxv:7 Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O LORD. Put together with: Ecclesiastes xii:1 Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them; And all of this is reinforced by: Isaiah liv:4 Fear not; [saith the Lord (from verse 1 of this chapter)] for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more. May we really wonder why we should not consider the responsible adult age to begin at nineteen? It's because by that age they have somehow grown out of their childish ways—ways where they test everything, push their limits just to see how far they can go; ways when we teach the right ways and punish wrong behavior before it become something out of control but before it can be held against them because they didn’t know all of the right ways— and become real reasonable, responsible adults. And, if they haven’t learned by then, then they still have the chance of reconciliation by accepting Jesus as their personal Saviour. Does this make sense to you? |
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5 | May we take another short look at this? | Acts 16:31 | anto | 179358 | ||
That make a lot of sense to me.Its like when a mother rase a child she teaches them wrong from right. but if we know no wrong how can we get blame. | ||||||