7. What Is The Age of Accountability?

This is a term that is not in the Bible but that some religious groups use to refer to the time when a child becomes accountable to God for his actions. That time comes whenever he or she is old enough to understand the difference between right and wrong and good and evil.

It may be at a very early age. Some children who are four or five years old are old enough to know Jesus Christ and be saved, because they are old enough to know the difference between right and wrong. We have to be careful with little children. We should not cause them to build up an unnatural sense of guilt and make them feel guilty for things that are not really sin at all. If we teach them the major moral rules, that God Himself has set forth, then they will learn properly and naturally.

Children do reach an age where they are old enough to be held responsible for what they do. When that time comes, they will be judged by the same standards as everyone else.

Click on sub topics for answers:
1. If I Sin, Will I Lose My Salvation?
2. Does The Bible Teach That Once I Am Saved, I Am Always Saved?
3. What Part Does The Virgin Mary Play In My Salvation?
4. Will Babies Who Die Without Being Baptized Go To Hell
5. What Is The Difference Between Heaven, Paradise & Purgatory?
6. How Can God Send People Who Have Never Heard of Christ To Hell?
7. What Is The Age of Accountability?
8. Why Aren't The Wicked Punished For What They Do?