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