Age of Accountability

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Question

Ultimately in order to be saved will all who have lived as flesh and blood beings need to be changed, for the corruptible to put on incorruption, and the mortal to put on immortality;? Is that true because of the sin of Adam which brought the death to all?

According to the Word of God; When does one put on that which is mortal? When does the mortal put on immortality?

Heb 9:27 YLT and as it is laid up to men once to die, and after this -- judgment,
Acts 17:31 YLT because He did set a day in which He is about to judge the world in righteousness, by a man whom He did ordain, having given assurance to all, having raised him out of the dead.'

Are the dead being judged, today? Or are they raised out of the dead unto judgement?


He did set a day in which He is about to judge the world in righteousness From Acts 17:31
And this one thing let not be unobserved by you, beloved, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day; 1 Peter 3:8 YLT
1 Cor 15:22-26 YLT for even as in Adam all die, so also in the Christ all shall be made alive, and each in his proper order, a first-fruit Christ, afterwards those who are the Christ's, in his presence, then -- the end, ]the end of being made alive] -- the end, when he may deliver up the reign to God, even the Father, when he may have made useless all rule, and all authority and power -- for it behoveth him to reign till he may have put all the enemies under his feet -- the last enemy is done away -- [the] death; / the rest of the dead

Rev 20 tells us this day, those who are the Christ's, in his presence and the rest of the dead ie when last enemy is destroyed is a thousand years.

The day the inhabited earth is judged in righteousness is as a thousand years.

I'm going to let the righteous Judge be the judge relative to myself and those babies.

 

[JD731]

So most of us believe that babies who die - will go do Heaven.
Do you believe the Scriptures teach that?

We have heard the term "Age Of Accountability"
( I know the Bible does not use that term - and it does not mention Trinity!)

So is there a concept of the age of accountability"

If a man still has the brain of a one-year old - would he go to Heaven?

I realize that this discussion can go in several directions - and that is okay

Open for discussion

History unfolds in a dispensational format. Most believe there are 7 dispensation from beginning to end starting with innocence and knowing nothing. Newborn babies sure fill that bill. The wages of sin is death we are told and we know that it is not a sin to be born otherwise Jesus was a sinner because at one time he was a newborn baby.

As the babe matures he becomes conscious of his personhood and he begins to learn of his surroundings. But in this stage he has not learned law and there is a couple more steps before he gets there and becomes accountable. Steps like human government, starting usually with his parents and extending outward and then his responsibilities in a family.

I like to illustrate a man who is no farther along than conscience by comparing him with a man who has matured to the point of law and how God holds them accountable. Stay with me here.

God tells us this in 58 AD.

Ro 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
13 (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam s transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.

Cain killed his brother Abel one day and what God did was this;

11 And now [art] thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother s blood from thy hand;
12 When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
He even placed a mark on Cain so others would not kill him

Here is the guy that had progressed as far as law.

32 And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.
33 And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation.
34 And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him.
35 And the LORD said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp.
36 And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the LORD commanded Moses.

To be honest, it seems that killing one's brother is far more serious than gathering sticks on the Sabbath day. But I am not God and he has his ways.

So my vote is a person is accountable when he can understand the law of God that is built into his conscience and acts against what he knows is right.

Verse 31-31 gives us the condition of he who was under the law.

30 But the soul that doeth ought presumptuously, whether he be born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproacheth the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
31 Because he hath despised the word of the LORD, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.