What is the age of accountability?

[TonyChanYT]

The "age of accountability" concept is not explicitly mentioned in the Bible. Some think that there is a precise age at which a person becomes morally responsible before God.

Is the age of accountability a set age?

No, there isn't a precise age number for everyone.

Is it based on the individual?

I think so. It is between God and the individual.

There were some guidelines in Num 14:

26 And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 27“How long shall this wicked congregation grumble against me? I have heard the grumblings of the people of Israel, which they grumble against me. 28 Say to them, ‘As I live, declares the LORD, what you have said in my hearing I will do to you: 29your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness, and of all your number, listed in the census from twenty years old and upward,

You were responsible if you were 20 years or older.

who have grumbled against me, 30 not one shall come into the land where I swore that I would make you dwell, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun. 31 But your little ones, who you said would become a prey, I will bring in, and they shall know the land that you have rejected. 32 But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness. 33 And your children shall be shepherds in the wilderness forty years and shall suffer for your faithlessness, until the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness.

God punished the adults and parents for their unbelief. The little ones and the children were spared.

What is the age of accountability?

As a rule of thumb, people 20 and older are accountable for their belief in God. In actual cases, it could be younger or older than 20. It is between God and the individual's specific circumstances.

 

[Triumph1300]

It all depends on the person.

God knows.

The government seems to think it's around 20 years old.
The age for military service in most countries.
But of course most governments are evil organizations these days.
That's my take on it.

 

[Ronald David Bruno]

The "age of accountability" concept is not explicitly mentioned in the Bible. Some think that there is a precise age at which a person becomes morally responsible before God.

Is the age of accountability a set age?

No, there isn't a precise age number for everyone.

Is it based on the individual?

I think so. It is between God and the individual.

There were some guidelines in Num 14:


You were responsible if you were 20 years or older.


God punished the adults and parents for their unbelief. The little ones and the children were spared.

What is the age of accountability?

As a rule of thumb, people 20 and older are accountable for their belief in God. In actual cases, it could be younger or older than 20. It is between God and the individual's specific circumstances.

Children at a young age learn what is right and wrong; but certainly to understand the concept of God and sin needs more time. Moreso, the concept of Christ's sacrificial death on the cross requires a little more maturity ... 10 years old?
I read a psychiatrist's opinion on the matter. He said children cannot distinguish the difference between fantasy and reality until about 7-8. Not a rule, but interesting.
But certainly by the age of puberty, which is a recognizable physical change, one enters into a new phase, like a young tree takes a couple years before it can produce fruit; and so more is expected from this child. If a child gets to the age when they can procreate, I think God expects them to be accountable as well for just about everything else. A hundred years ago, a 15 year boy knew how to run his father's farm and do his business. They were certainly more mature. Some could handle a wife and children by 18 too. Now they say the average boy becomes a man at 30 years old.

 

[Jim C]

In Jewish society of biblical times, a boy is considered 'of age' at 13 and a girl at 12 (the age when the have their bar or bat mitzvahs)

 

[GRACE ambassador]

It all depends on the person.

God knows.

Amen! Our responsibility is not to be concerned with "what only God knows", but to:

"Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it."​

(Proverbs 22:6 AV)​

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Amen.

 

[Adrift]

In my opinion, I wasn't accountable until I was 19. Up until then, occasions for religious reflection eluded me. I went from High School straight into a war. My service in the Army served to sharpen my focus on the Bible.

 

[DJT_47]

No definitive age, like when the clock strikes 12 midnight on a specific day in your life, and the only guide we have is the Lord himself, being 12 years old when he began doing his father's work, Luke 2:42. Because there is no definitive age, and people mature at different rates, it's important to begin teaching children about the Lord as young as possible so they are brought up knowing God; that way, at the right time, whatever it is, that they believe and understand the importance of becoming a Christian and the process by which that happens, they can make the decision to become a child of God and be baptized into the body of Christ.

 

[Webers_Home]

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According to Rom 5:12-21, when Adam tasted the forbidden fruit, his entire
posterity was instantly doomed to die regardless of age, race, gender, or
religious preference.

In other words: the sentence of death took place in Adam's time rather than
individually each in his own time, i.e. this isn't something his posterity
inherits, rather, it is something with which they were all slammed as one
man, all at the same time, back in the garden.

In point of fact, had not Jesus been executed, he would've eventually died of
some other cause even though he lived a perfectly innocent, sinless, life.
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[JunChosen]

There is no age of accountability!! We read in Psalms 58:3-8:

3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
4 Their poison [is] like the poison of a serpent: [they are] like the deaf adder [that] stoppeth her ear;
5 Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
7 Let them melt away as waters [which] run continually: [when] he bendeth [his bow to shoot] his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
8 As a snail [which] melteth, let [every one of them] pass away: [like] the untimely birth of a woman, [that] they may not see the sun.

To God Be The Glory

 

[amigo de christo]

The wisest words
are , RAISE THE CHILD UP in the way HE should go . no one really knows the age of accountability .
AND man dont leave some child think he or she is the opposite sex . WE DO NEED TO CORRECT THE CHILDREN
and to raise them up in THE WAY they should GO .

 

[Ronald Nolette]

The "age of accountability" concept is not explicitly mentioned in the Bible. Some think that there is a precise age at which a person becomes morally responsible before God.

Is the age of accountability a set age?

No, there isn't a precise age number for everyone.

Is it based on the individual?

I think so. It is between God and the individual.

There were some guidelines in Num 14:


You were responsible if you were 20 years or older.


God punished the adults and parents for their unbelief. The little ones and the children were spared.

What is the age of accountability?

As a rule of thumb, people 20 and older are accountable for their belief in God. In actual cases, it could be younger or older than 20. It is between God and the individual's specific circumstances.

So you follow that all who die before this age of accountability go to heaven? they do not need tro receive Jesus as Savior as Scripture says?

So millions of Muslims, Hindus and pagans and atheists who die before this mystical age go to heaven?

 

[Behold]

As a rule of thumb, people 20 and older are accountable

Its much younger.
it occurs when the conscience in a person, first understands... "that isn't right, that is wrong, so i should not do it"... VS, having to be told that, and not quite understanding WHY.

That can be 8 yrs old, or 12... but its much earlier than 20.

 

[Fred J]

The "age of accountability" concept is not explicitly mentioned in the Bible. Some think that there is a precise age at which a person becomes morally responsible before God.

Is the age of accountability a set age?

No, there isn't a precise age number for everyone.

Is it based on the individual?

I think so. It is between God and the individual.

There were some guidelines in Num 14:


You were responsible if you were 20 years or older.


God punished the adults and parents for their unbelief. The little ones and the children were spared.

What is the age of accountability?

As a rule of thumb, people 20 and older are accountable for their belief in God. In actual cases, it could be younger or older than 20. It is between God and the individual's specific circumstances.

Numbers 32:
11. Surely none of the men that came up out of egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not wholly followed ME:

Deuteronomy 1:
39. Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had know knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall posses it.

Therefore age 20 and upward, have the knowledge between good and evil, and are accountable in GOD's standard.

 

[amigo de christo]

So you follow that all who die before this age of accountability go to heaven? they do not need tro receive Jesus as Savior as Scripture says?

So millions of Muslims, Hindus and pagans and atheists who die before this mystical age go to heaven?

Its true we have no idea about this age thing .
But what do we KNOW to be true .
What do we know to be what is best .
RAISE up the child in the way HE should go .
I leave the guessing and assumptions alone .
That i do know . We do not know all things , but what we do know is the scriptures be true
and thus let us learn them well and raise up the children in the way they should GOD .
NAMELY this WAY , I AM THE WAY , THE TRUTH and THE LIFE and no man comes To the Father but by THE GLORIOUS CHRIST JESUS .
You see there are many things i worry not about or concern myself with .
Rather it be TIME to remind all that do have breath of the dire and absolutely dire need
to Believe on JESUS the CHRIST .
AND , yes there is an and and its a very important and ,
AND we better make sure its the biblical one .
For many now follow another jesus , another gospel
And i must say it cannot save them .

 

[amigo de christo]

Its much younger.
it occurs when the conscience in a person, first understands... "that isn't right, that is wrong, so i should not do it"... VS, having to be told that, and not quite understanding WHY.

That can be 8 yrs old, or 12... but its much earlier than 20.

What is this age so many speak of , that is known by GOD and by GOD alone .
It could be quite young or perhaps a bit older . GOD knows .
What i know , and that by HIS grace , is THIS
TIME to raise them children up in THE WAY they should go
and time to remind all that still has breath that it be HIGH TIME
to BELIEVE ON JESUS THE CHRIST .
And as i wrote afore in the above post to another
AND we better make darn sure its the biblical JESUS we be a knowing and a teaching .
For many have crept in who preach another jesus and another gospel
and Behold , Behold , that ONE CANNOT SAVE THEM .

 

[Ronald Nolette]

Its much younger.
it occurs when the conscience in a person, first understands... "that isn't right, that is wrong, so i should not do it"... VS, having to be told that, and not quite understanding WHY.

That can be 8 yrs old, or 12... but its much earlier than 20.

Scriptural Support?

 

[Behold]

Scriptural Support?

Scriptural support that defines who is too young to believe in Jesus and be born again?

So, what you are asking, is a similar "moot" Question.

Ive heard Testimonies, where someone said they trusted in Christ, when they were 5 yrs old.
Scripture does not support that, nor does it reject that...

So, each person is different.
Some people are of a higher IQ, right out of the Gate, and they are going to come into the understanding of "that is wrong, vs that is right", which is a MORAL understanding, before someone who has learning disabilities,, will come to that knowledge.

That's the reality.

I came to the understanding of moral right vs moral wrong, long before i was 20.

 

[Ronald Nolette]

Scriptural support that defines who is too young to believe in Jesus and be born again?

So, what you are asking, is a similar "moot" Question.

Ive heard Testimonies, where someone said they trusted in Christ, when they were 5 yrs old.
Scripture does not support that, nor does it reject that...

So, each person is different.
Some people are of a higher IQ, right out of the Gate, and they are going to come into the understanding of "that is wrong, vs that is right", which is a MORAL understanding, before someone who has learning disabilities,, will come to that knowledge.

That's the reality.

I came to the understanding of moral right vs moral wrong, long before i was 20.

So you are relying on testimonies and philosophy to preach on this age of accountability instead of any real biblical support. Interesting. Substituting your opinion for teh Word of God to form a doctrine is a dangerous thing to do.

 

[Behold]

So you are relying on testimonies and philosophy to preach on this age of accountability instead of any real biblical support.

Just as there is no literal bible support regarding the color of the Whale that gave Jonah a ride... nor is there a verse that says that accountability to morality, is the same AGE for every human being.

I was about 11 yrs old, when i knew "wrong vs right"... . and i might have been even younger, but, i recall certain thoughts and deeds from that specific age., and what i KNEW....

You may have been older.......when you came into your moral understanding...

Now, if that verse existed, that states the age of accountability, then you'd post it, @Ronald Nolette .

And if you post some OT verse that is talking about Hebrews, as if that is talking to everyone, then you might, wait on that., post.

 

[amigo de christo]

So you are relying on testimonies and philosophy to preach on this age of accountability instead of any real biblical support. Interesting. Substituting your opinion for teh Word of God to form a doctrine is a dangerous thing to do.

I do agree , however it dont make it clear . i mean in exodus it says twenty and up
but when it came to priests or prophets , some of them were darn young .
Samuel didnt appear to be too old when HE first heard from GOD .
the real thing and what needs to be the concern is rather this , RAISE THEM CHITLINS up in the way they should go .
However it seems to todays generation they SEEM to beleive the childs knows best . just a friendly reminder .
IF ya son , grandson , grandaughter or daughter
thinketh stuff contrary to GOD , IT DO NEED to be corrected .
SO HERES a big one . if lil sally thinketh she a lil john , CORRECT IT .
if little johnny thinketh he a little sally CORRECT IT
if little johnny or little sally thinketh they have same sex love , CORRECT IT .
TIME the church makes CORRECTION , BIBLICAL CORRECTION , great again and stop with the JUDGE NOT BULL DUNG stuff
and ps , little johnny and little jane , DONT KNOW what is best for them either .