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1 | AGE OF ACCOUNTIBILITY | Bible general Archive 1 | Brent Douglass | 681 | ||
To my knowledge, there is no command that a certain age be considered the age at which someone is held accountable for his or her sin. The only place I know of where God divided by age and punished by age was in Numbers (14:28-30 and 32:10-12), after the spies brought back an evil report and the people violently rejected the faithful report of Joshua and Caleb. All men 20 years old and older, except for Joshua and Caleb who had been faithful, were condemned to perish in the wilderness and forbidden from entering God's rest. I know of no precedent after this, however, for setting this up as some kind of legal age of accountability before or after the time of Israel's rebellion in the desert. | ||||||
2 | AGE OF ACCOUNTIBILITY | Bible general Archive 1 | Darcy | 79250 | ||
Luke 18:16 But Jesus called the children to him and said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. So there has to be an age of accountability I don't think there is a verse that say what the age is. Although I am incline to think it is older than what most people think |
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3 | AGE OF ACCOUNTIBILITY | Bible general Archive 1 | Brent Douglass | 79355 | ||
I'm not sure exactly what you mean. There are 2 separate questions. One question is whether there is a POINT before which people may be given special grace due to a lack of the faculties necessary to exercise faith. It sounds like this is the issue you are considering, and there are varying opinions within orthodox Christianity. This is separate from trying to consider a standardized AGE of accountability. Anyone seriously considering a specific AGE of accountability has already assumed that there is some kind of prerequisite level of cognitive (or other) functionality for accountability to be present (or that God would not be willing to somehow act in advance based on His perfect foreknowledge of what would have happened in the person's life had such faculties been present). The question at that point is then whether we can assign a specific AGE that everyone before that age is considered safe and everyone after that age is considered liable -- similar to a voting age, driving age, age to buy tobacco or alcohol, etc. It's not surprising that the Scriptures are basically silent on such an age. I believe that attempting to set such an age is a dangerous and slippery slope theologically. The most natural fleshly result would be a contrived attempt to identify specific unbelievers as guilty before God while identifying other specific unbelievers as not guilty based on some abiblical calculation. God has not given us a neat formula nor the freedom to make such judgments. |
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