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In Christianity, at what age is someone considered old enough to be held accountable for their sins?

In Christianity, at what age is someone considered old enough to be held accountable for their sins?

Are infants accountable? How about fetuses?

Did God kill people who were too young to be punished for their sins when he caused the Flood, destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, killed the firstborn in Egypt, etc.?

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    HEY , FELLOW HIPPIE :

    I do not know how normal I am , But , I didn't get this dream until I was 10 . I saw a "Y" crossing that was very slight . And I knew that I could take a turn onto the left path and have a say about where my life would go , or I could stay on the same path , always going to the right , that I was always on , and continue to do God's will . And I chose to remain . ( I was truly Baptized then too .)

    I can see how people easily decide to take the path to the left , because it is so very slightly different from the right path . Everyone at that moment of maturity of their "DECISION TIME" must make the sincere covenant with the Father that they will always obey all of Jesus' sayings or else they are in for a very hard and unhappy life . I always had a great and beautiful life , where I was always prepared just in time for the trials I would have to face and overcome . But I was a slow bloomer of the baby boomers .

    PS . .... I never seemed to think about the deep stuff mentioned in the scriptures until I was 20 or so . I just took it for granted that every scripture was true , But as I grew older , I began to see some inadequacies ; And sought to dig into them in order to find out what was really going on . For , before that I was just a typical Christian with a slight slant on the idea that just maybe Joseph Smith did restore the 1st century Church back to earth 1260 years after the Apostasy of 570 AD ( when Mohamed was born and when the invading Lombards decided that in order to stop the Holy Roman Empire from resurfacing they would have to kill off all ot the Priests and Bishops who lead each community , and replace them with a puppet priesthood ) . But today I am so far out on "RIGHT" field that no Christian or Joseph Smith's restoration belief follower could ever believe that I was anything but a heritic .Click on my answers on this subject for evidence .

  • ?
    Lv 5
    7 years ago

    did god kill people who were too young to be punished for their sins when he caused the flood? no infants were really good swimmers back then...

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    the age of reason . in catholic teaching years ago it was deemed to be 7 yrs. old, but nowadays it seems between 7-12 yrs. of age. as many children are not taught properly as marriages break up and single parents increase

  • Pamela
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    God sees and knows the heart.

  • 7 years ago

    Catholics baptize the hell out of a baby only weeks old.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    There is no god.

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