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Our response to the Spirit reveals our faith. Instead, a person’s salvation is based on his response to the Holy Spirit. A person’s salvation is not based on the purity of his beliefs about God. Paul makes the point clear that when Gentiles follow the leading of the Holy Spirit, God accepts them as His children even though they do not know Him! God justifies Gentiles who do not know Him because He sees the hearts of Jews and Gentiles alike. “Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law, since they show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts now accusing, now even defending them. Notice how God deals with the insufficiency of Gentiles (those who do not know God). If, in our fallen state, we realize the insufficiency of minors, surely God does, too. (Occasionally, there are cases in juvenile courts where minors are charged and sentenced as adults because the court proves that the minor knew the difference between right and wrong and chose to willfully do wrong.) Because children lack judgment (intellectually and emotionally), they are not generally held to the same standards of conduct as adults. Minors cannot enter into legal agreements, own property, vote, or get married without parental consent. Minors do not have the same rights as adults. In fact, this is why we call them “minors” until they are 18 years old. A child is a living trust given to parents until he or she is intellectually and emotionally prepared to bear the responsibilities of adulthood – or age 18, whichever comes first.īecause the emotions of children can be easily swayed, because children cannot reason adequately, and because children do not have a well-defined understanding of right and wrong, they do not have accountability during their first years of life. If the blood of Jesus can justify an adult who has willingly sinned, then the blood of Jesus can also justify a child whose ability to reason is limited and knowledge of right and wrong is incomplete. In other words, God does not condemn a child to eternal death because (a) Adam sinned, (b) the child’s parents are sinners, or (c) the child is a natural born sinner. For normal children, the age of accountability (knowing the difference between right from wrong and having the ability to follow through with a conscientious decision to do right or wrong) varies somewhere between the ages of 7 and 14. We come from the womb having a natural tendency toward selfishness, sin, and rebellion, but I believe God does not impart guilt to children for their sins until they reach the age of accountability. Yes, the Bible teaches that all human beings are born with fallen natures. I believe that all children, in all religions and cultures, are born in a “saved” state. (An ordinance is something that a believer does to show publicly that he or she is a follower of Christ, but it is not a requirement for salvation.)Īs you can see, baptism means different things to different Christians, but the question still remains, “What happens to children who die before reaching the age of accountability?” Are they saved because they were baptized, are they condemned because they were born into the curse of sin or does God deal with them as though they never existed? Protestants believe that salvation comes through faith in Christ alone and baptism is regarded as an ordinance.
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(See John 3:5.) On the other hand, most Protestants do not accept the idea that sacraments are necessary for salvation. In fact, Catholics and a few other Christian groups currently believe that baptism is a requirement for eternal life, so they apply the sacrament of baptism to infants as soon as possible.
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In ancient times, infant mortality was very high, so to make sure that infants would inherit eternal life, certain Christians began baptizing infants as soon as possible after birth. Are they “lost” or “saved?”įor twenty centuries, Christians have debated the question of how God deals with the death of young children. I have wondered about the eternal destiny of infants and young children who die before reaching the age of accountability.