Thread: Some thoughts on "The Age of Accountability"

Originally Posted by FunFromOz

Yep and this Kid did what he "knew" in his heart was wrong did he not? So what's God to do?

You dont know that that is what happened, based on your criteria alone.

Originally Posted by Colonel

You dont know that that is what happened, based on your criteria alone.

As it's a situation I made up I know what happened.

Kid A; did what was wrong "knowing" that it was wrong.
Kid B; did what was wrong but "thought" it was OK.
Kid C; did what was right but "knew" it was wrong.

And it happened in that short space of time between reaching AoA and dying so there's nothing else to take into account in deciding their eternal fate.

If the Age of Accountability is part of one's Theology of Salvation then one should (imo) know how it fits.

I was looking for a flowchart showing this and I can't find one from an Arminian perspective at all and the Roman Catholic one doesn't have AoA in it either. http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/182...SalvPlan.0.jpg

Off to grand-daughter's b'day party. Later

You dont know the heart involved, only the mind.

Originally Posted by Colonel

You dont know the heart involved, only the mind.

But I'm making it up.

So .....

Kid A; did what was wrong "knowing in his heart" that it was wrong.
Kid B; did what was wrong but "thinking in his heart" it was OK.
Kid C; did what was right but "thinking in his heart" it was wrong.

What happens in an AoA environment?

You're making something up but what it comes down to is what goes on in the heart. In relation to God and to the imprint of God's will that is in the conscience, which is something deeper than what the child has been taught, even when that teaching is a matter of calling evil good and good evil.

Originally Posted by Colonel

You're making something up but what it comes down to is what goes on in the heart. In relation to God and to the imprint of God's will that is in the conscience, which is something deeper than what the child has been taught, even when that teaching is a matter of calling evil good and good evil.

So if I try reading behind the lines here are you really saying "I don't know"?

See I had this funny idea that if one reached the "Age of Accountability" (as the kids do in my example) then they are accountable for what they now do.

They would be accountable for what they did according to their hearts.

Originally Posted by Colonel

They would be accountable for what they did according to their hearts.

Which I have described in my scenario, so how come it's so hard to give the results?

Originally Posted by papabrett

God judges

Thanks, but the cases are very specific; what is God's judgement on Kids A, B and C?