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1 | AGE OF ACCOUNTIBILITY | Bible general Archive 1 | Reformer Joe | 28141 | ||
Of course young children have an idea of God's law. It is written upon their hearts: "For when Gentiles who do not have the Law do instinctively the things of the Law, these, not having the Law, are a law to themselves, in that they show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them." --Romans 2:14-15 We do not have to be read the Old Testament to know right from wrong. A child may not know the number of the commandment, but they were given a moral sense which clearly tells them that they should honor their parents. No one truly goes through their whole lives without understanding or excuse, because the existence of God is written on the fabric of creation as well (Romans 1:18-20). No one, from infant to geriatric, is ever without excuse. Romans 2:1 reinforces this as well. --Joe! |
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2 | AGE OF ACCOUNTIBILITY | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 28151 | ||
Joe, in the opening pages of "Mere Christianity" C.S.Lewis makes a couple of interesting points about the 'Law about Right and Wrong' as he calls it. These are the two points he makes. (1) That human beings all over the earth have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and cannot really get rid of it and (2) that they do not in fact behave in that way. "They know the Law (of Nature or Right and Wrong)" Lewis says, "but they break it. These two facts are the foundation of all clear thinking about ourselves and the universe we live in."....... I think what Lewis is saying is consistent with what Paul is saying in Romans 2:14,15. Perhaps scientists today would call it DNA. So be it. We know who made the DNA, don't we? --Hank | ||||||