What is the "age of accountability" and where is it taught in Scripture?
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the age of accountability is a man made addition to scripture ensuring that babies who die don't go to Hell.  Technically all have fallen short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23 NIV) including children.  The idea that an "innocent"* child would be banished to Hell makes no sense from a loving and caring God, but we have to remember He is also a just God who cannot go back on his word.  "Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." (John 14:6 NIV) which is plainly stating that unless you follow Him, you are kept seperate from the Father.  There is no other way, according to Jesus, meaning that there is no alternate route to the Father.  Black and white.  No grey.  Then, in order to make ourselves feel better about God, we added this "age of accountability" to Christian theology, forgetting all about the devastation He ordered in the Old Testement.  He is not as concerned with you getting to Heaven as some would like to believe.  Finally, if there were such a thing as "age of accountability," wouldn't the best thing a good Christian could do be to kill infants and prevent their souls from even standing the chance of being banished to Hell?  It's perverted, I know!\n\n\n*to understand my argument you have to realize that according to the Bible no child is innocent or free from sin.  We're born into it.
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Year zero. 5766 years ago, according to the bible.
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faithfulness, responsibility, and keeping yourself groomed and clean\nage 23
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Children are not held accountable. and to those much is given much is required.  That is about knowledge also.  God loves, if you never knew and had no opportunity to hear, you are judged by your life, people sense right from wrong. Even a toddler who can't speak or really comprehend will get upset if you  wrong them, take a toy etc.  The bible can be taken out of context, but God id good. He wants us all to live with Him forever. To us who know, we are given the light, not to hide under a bush but to shine for all to see.  I agree that some "Christians" are judgmental, condemning they actually turn people away fro His grace goodness and love.  But to this They Will be made accountable also, I hope never to cause a child of His to die because i was a pompous judgmental sanctimonious person.  God is about love, mercy and forgiveness, without that NONE of us would be able to go, i as a true christian do not believe that i am better than anyone. i am a child of His like we all are.  I hope, pray that those who get "turned off" by some that call themselves Christians don't miss out on what God is really about.\n\n\n\nI cant respond to your em.  said that u havent verified your em address.  I have questions!!!
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The Bible doesn't specifically say. Some people have added up the ages of all the people and come to the conclusion that the earth is not very old. This assumes that every person who was said to have begotten another was the immediate preceding generation; when it could have meant 'the ancestor of'. \n\nThere could also have been a long gap between when God created the heavens and when He created the Earth. We are told that there was war in Heaven (Revelation) and that Satan was cast out of Heaven. Considering that Satan thought he had a chance against God, that must have been some fight. \n\nThe first description of Earth is that Earth was without form and void. How did it get that way? I figure that God had already begun to work but Satan tried to wreck everything. Then when God got back to work, things were not 'perfect', but He looked at everything that he had made and they were still 'very good', i.e., they could be salvaged. He didn't see the need to tear everything down and start from scratch.\n\nI don't have a problem with the universe being old or young. My eternal destiny doesn't hang on that. What bothers me is that people cling to such flimsy excuses for not believing in an all powerful, all wise, loving Creator, Who came in person to die for us and redeem us. I hope you won't let yorself be distracted from getting to know God by matters like this. They doesn't prove anything one way or the other.
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That's funny, Paul, yeah that Paul in the Bible, thought he would live to see the end times, and if he can be wrong about it, I most certainly think you are. Every generation thinks theirs is the end times. Things were so bad in 1000 AD, the Church was corrupt, the Pope was under seige in Rome, the average life span was like 35 years, there were comets and other astral events or "signs".etc., actually today we have it pretty good. Sorry, to throw water on your pity party!That's not sprinkled water either, but full immersion. Grow up and stop being so narcissistic. Every generation thinks they are the worst,and the end of days is near. You know what, we're just another generation getting our 70+ years, but look on the bright side, 70+ is a lot better than 35 a thousand years ago!
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The laws you are quoting are from Levitical law.  We wouldn't understand them in our 21st century culture, but they were necessary is keeping the society that was present more than three millennia ago in check, as all laws do.  If you could see what was permissable in societies surrounding the Israelites, you'd probably be horrified; infant sacrifice, for instance.  \n\nThe New Testament, being composed 1200-1400 years later, takes a different view of the law; as society has changed, it needed more than laws to keep it in check, but someone to embody and fulfil the law; hence Jesus.  Even with that, though, sin is still there and certain practices (homosexuality and witchcraft, for example) are still forbidden.  But they don't have the same command of death as a result.\n\nWhat you're referencing is Levitical law without the presence of Jesus to atone for the sins of the people.  Since I assume you didn't invent this list yourself, I would hypothesize it's actually used as a criticism of Jewish culture; or a particular figure like Dr. Laura.
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The Old Testament is the Old Covenant of life under the Law. When Christ came, He established justification through grace, not the law--hence the New Covenant.\n\n"In that He says, “A new covenant,”  He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away." Hebrews 8:13
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2Tim 3:15.  And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.\n 16.  All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:\n 17.  That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.   \n  \nLiving bible 2Tim 3:15.  You know how, when you were a small child, you were taught the holy Scriptures; and it is these that make you wise to accept God's salvation by trusting in Christ Jesus. \n 16.  The whole Bible was given to us by inspiration from God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives; it straightens us out and helps us do what is right. \n 17.  It is God's way of making us well prepared at every point, fully equipped to do good to everyone.
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It implies it. Jesus was in need of baptism, and the Bible says Christ came to John the Baptist at age thirty. The Gospel of John then describes the three-year ministry of Christ, which ends with the resurrection. This seems to imply Jesus' being 33 years of age when He died.\n\n*Edit* \nOf course, He wouldn't be exactly 33, unless they crucified Him on His birthday.
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<*>I assume you mean conviction by the Holy Spirit.\nWe should respond with repentance, turning away from what ever behavior resulted in the sense of conviction and turning to Christ seeking forgiveness,\nHowever, in truth I sometime linger.\nOne measure of Christian maturity is how long we linger or how much further we are led into sin before seeking him.\n1 John 1:8-9 “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.\n9  If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
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An exact figure I have yet to find; perhaps this insight can help.\n\nThe Lord, the God of Israel, made a Covenant with the fathers of old in the day that God brought them forth out of the land of Egypt (Jer.34:13 below).  Thy time was the time of love (Eze.16:8 below).\n\nALL the fathers of old were under the cloud, and ALL passed through the sea and ALL were baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea and ALL ate the same spiritual meat and ALL drank the same spiritual drink (1 Cor.10:1-4 below).\n\nI believe that it was these spiritual acts and the passing through the sea at the Exodus that married Israel to their Maker (Isa.54:5, Jer.3:14, Eze.16:8 below).\n\n\nJer.34:13Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel:  I made a covenant (Eze.16:8 below) with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondmen, saying,  \n\nEze.16:8Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee (Jer.34:13 above, Jer.31:32 below), saith the Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine (Isa.54:5 below).\n\n1 Cor.10:1 Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that ALL our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea (Ex.14:22 below);\n\n1 Cor.10:2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;\n\n1 Cor.10:3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat;\n\n1 Cor.10:4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them (Ex.14:19 below): and that Rock was Christ.\n\nIsa.54:5For thy Maker is thine husband (Jer.3:14 below); the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.\n\nJer.3:14Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you (Isa.54:5 above): and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:\n\n\nDivorcement -\n\nIsa.50:1 Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? (Jer.3:8 below) or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away. \n\nJer.3:8And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce (Isa.50:1 above); yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also. \n\nJer.3:9 And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks. \n\nJer.3:10 And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD. \n\nJer.3:11And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel (Jer.3:12 below) hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah. \n\nJer.3:12 Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the LORD, and I will not keep anger for ever (Isa.43:25 above).\n \nJer.3:13 Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God (Isa.54:5 above), and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice (Heb.12:25 below), saith the LORD.\n\nJer.31:32Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake (Eze.16:8 above), although I WAS an husband unto them (Isa.54:5, Jer.3:14 above), saith the Lord:\n\nHeb.12:25See that ye refuse not him that speaketh.  For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth (Jesus), much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from Him (God the Father - Col.1:3) THAT SPE
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This does not apply to anyone during the current times. It applied to the Old Testament people, but now we are in the New Testament. Instead we are commanded to BE the servants for other people, but not in slavery but more in humbleness, trying to help the person out.
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You are very right.  When people cut things out of the Bible, they start with Rev  22:18.  ; )  But almost everyone actually just chooses which things to follow, there are VERY few groups that obey everything in the Bible (keeping kosher, not eating shellfish, not allowing men to have long hair, treating their slaves well, etc.).  Really it's all just a buffet.
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the kind of relationship that you don't need. A vision from God is not an excuse, he needs a job. Our Lord Jesus Christ came to save the world, His ministry started at age 30. before He became 30 years old, He worked as a carpenter, He taught in the synagogue. He didn't just sit in one place with Mary His mother waiting to become the Savior of the world.
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as far as sins go the place to start is Exodus chapter 20 where it talks about the ten commandments. as far as faith and good behavior that comes with time. As your relationship with God improves so will you. spend time reading the bible talk to others and ask questions.
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There is no "old Covenant," because there is no new one.\n\nBut if you mean the Prophets of the Hebrew Scriptures, then what they said is From Gd.\n\nFor example, Ezekiel. The whole of chapter 18 of the book of Ezekiel is about the idea that no one can die for someone else's sins. This chapter of Ezekiel teaches us that all we have to do for Gd's forgiveness is to stop doing the Bad and start doing the Good, and Gd will forgive us.\n\nI also like Hosea, for example Hosea 11:9, where he said, "For I am Gd and not a man."\n\nI also love Jonah. In Jonah, the People of Ninevah do three things in order to be forgiven by Gd. They fast, they pray for forgiveness, and they stop doing the Bad and start doing the Good, and Gd forgave them!\n\nJonah 3:7-10 And he caused it to be proclaimed \nand published through Ninevah, by the decree \nof the King and his nobles, saying, Let \nneither man nor beast, herd nor flock taste \nanything; let them not feed nor drink water; \nbut let man and beast be covered with \nsackcloth, and cry mightily unto Gd; yea, let \nthem turn every one from his evil way, and \nfrom the violence that is in their hands. Who \ncan tell if Gd will turn and repent, and turn \naway from his fierce anger that we perish not? \nAnd Gd saw their works, that they turned from \ntheir evil way; and Gd repented of the evil, \nthat he had said that he would do unto them; \nand he did not do it.\n\nPlease notice that Jonah tells us that Gd saw their WORKS, their deeds, how they turned from their evil ways, and Gd forgave them. It does not say that Gd saw their blood sacrifice, they never offered one. It does not say that Gd forgave them because they had the right faith, but rather it says that Gd forgave them because of their deeds!\n\nSo, yes, the Prophets who spoke as Gd instructed are wonderful!