Agreed and well said Arthur, Tammie and Watching47! TR Romans 7:9 talks about an age of accountability, as well. Here is a well reasoned answer: Romans 7:9 reads, “Once I was alive apart from law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.” Since Paul was obviously still physically alive when he wrote that, he had to have been talking about his spiritual life and death. Before Paul was old enough to be accountable for his sins, he had eternal life. The phrase “the commandment came” means he had reached the age where he became accountable under the law. As soon as that happened his sins became a death warrant. In order to escape death he had to become born again. God doesn’t hold children accountable for their sins until they become old enough to understand the sin/salvation issue. Before that time it’s as if they haven’t sinned. This is part of what Jesus meant when He said we have to become like little children to enter God’s Kingdom (Matt. 18:3), in other words not accountable for our sins. In Romans 7:15-20 Paul said that’s the case for all born again believers. https://gracethrufaith.com/ask-a-bible-teacher/understanding-romans-79/ In these verses the Age of Accountability starts @ 20 years and above Exodus 30:13-14 Every one that passeth among them that are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give an offering unto the LORD. Exodus 38:26 Numbers 14:29 “If you were truly ignorant (blind), you would have no guilt. It’s because you are not ignorant—you are willfully unbelieving—that you stand guilty before God.” Here in John 9 Jesus is telling Pharisees that God does not condemn people for things they are unable to do. Babies and young children and those who are unable mentally to accept or reject Christ are not held accountable for unbelief. Before people mature enough to discern right from wrong, they can not be held accountable/ responsible by God Imho Kolleen made the great reply and truth, not I, but I hold to what Kolleen pushed forward. 😉
This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel is twenty gerahs:) an half shekel shall be the offering of the LORD.
A bekah for every man, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty (603,550) men
Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me,
