The Age of Accountability and God's wrath
Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 1:35 am
Hi Steve,
You made the following statement on the thread about hell:
I think you and I both share a belief that we are not guilty of Adam's sin, nor any of our own until we reach an age of accountability. Rather than using you as an example, let me use my late sister. She was a good kid, and very much a follower of Christ - a good example of what it means to be a Christian. At the age of twelve, she was baptized into Christ, and was faithful unto death. I would certainly consider a twelve year old as having not reached the age of accountability. Could she have ever been "a child of wrath" or does the "age of accountabily" theory have holes in it?
Blessings, Homer
You made the following statement on the thread about hell:
As I understand your personal testimony, you became a Christian in your youth, seemingly while having not yet reached the age of accountability. So how could you personally have ever been a "child of wrath"?When you say that a person under wrath should not expect undeserved grace, I have to ask what condition you and I were in before we came to Christ? Were we not "children of wrath, even as others"?
I think you and I both share a belief that we are not guilty of Adam's sin, nor any of our own until we reach an age of accountability. Rather than using you as an example, let me use my late sister. She was a good kid, and very much a follower of Christ - a good example of what it means to be a Christian. At the age of twelve, she was baptized into Christ, and was faithful unto death. I would certainly consider a twelve year old as having not reached the age of accountability. Could she have ever been "a child of wrath" or does the "age of accountabily" theory have holes in it?
Blessings, Homer