But then again, I don't have an ex-wife and I don't blow off infanticide.
But what exactly is your criteria for the “age of accountability”? Is it twelve years old, 26 years old?
How old? And could that "age" be too late for some of your “unaccountables”?
It's clearly a leap to anyone who thinks rationally which you clearly do not, and it's clearly in front of your mind.
But then again, I don't have an ex-wife and I don't blow off infanticide.
Two things: First, you do know that forcible divorce happens, correct? Secondly, your accusation I blow off infanticide without citing a single shred of proof falls flat on its face.
BTW, have you stopped beating your wife yet?
But what exactly is your criteria for the “age of accountability”? Is it twelve years old, 26 years old?
It's clearly not a newborn as you seem to prefer.
How old? And could that "age" be too late for some of your “unaccountables”?
You make no sense with this question. Your entire premise of baptism after birth makes no sense either because it's nowhere to be found in scripture so that's par for the course for you.
Since you refuse to answer the question re: where is baptizing infants in scripture, I'll try this another way and see if you can come up with the correct answer:
Which happens first in the Bible: (A) Baptism or (B) Receiving the Holy Spirit?
Choose (A) or (B) This isn't a trick question and refusal to answer and continuing to deflect will speak volumes about you and your motives on this thread.
Jeez Louise, ET, what is it with the twenty questions!? This is meant to be an encouraging and inspiring thread of fellow Freepers sharing their Christian faith history. If you want to attack and argue with people over Catholic dogma, start your own thread. You know how to do that.
Tradtionally, baptists and conservative protestants put the age of accountability at around 12-13 which is the age that Jews hold Bar Mitzvah for their boys which allows them full participation rights in public worship and ready to observe religious precepts. The reasoning is that at that age most boys and girls are generally fully sentient and fully cognizant of what is right and wrong.
Many children may reach that sense of needing Christ earlier(and may answer an altar call) but may be never able to fully understand it but later in life after some backslides,(and puberty) slings and arrrows they often may answer the call in a more full and adult way. Some younger saved children sail like rockets into adult ministries with Satan never having assailed them successfully, not that such folks didn’t have trials and tribulations.
For other younger children(below age 13) who faced rough times with sparse spiritual support immediately after asking Christ into their hearts(which might have been more of an emotional thing but not fully informed or spiritually energized in a transformational way), their earlier spiritual lives may be more checkered and God had to bring such folks fully to himself later in life.
The Amish allow a period where their children, nearing adulthood(, are allowed to fully explore the world outside of their own to see if the wish to stay and become fully Amish in worship and community and receive official baptism or to decide(after sampling what the outside world offers) that the rigors of Amish life and custom are perhaps not for them. That is their “coming of age” process.
Truthfully, we all reach “that age of accountability” when we all come to a realization that God has always held each of us accountable for our lives and sins. When we hold ourselves accountable and come to Christ asking forgiveness and for his salvation,our previous sins are washed away. We become filled with the spirit, we are made new creatures and each of our “inner men” is renewed day by day despite the perishing of our outer men.