dermdoc said:
AozorAg said:
dermdoc said:
AozorAg said:
dermdoc said:
And no strawman. I seriously want to know where the age of accountability is in Scripture. Love you my brother in Christ.
There is plenty of biblical support for the notion that young children are innocent in the eyes of God. If you don't know this, you've never opened a Bible. I'm not going to quote it to you because you and I both know it won't matter to you. Just as you reject the quoted words of Jesus about eternal consequences, you will reject the scriptures that support an age of accountability.
I also find it very dishonest that you are so set on making me provide you biblical support for an age of accountability, while at the same time you outright reject the words of Jesus Christ from the Gospels about eternal consequences. Very intellectually inconsistent.
I have done Bible in a year for 15 years. We disagree. I am not dishonest. You just don't like me and frankly are getting emotional.
Shalom and good night.
I don't get emotional. Reading the Bible 15 times doesn't mean anything as a Christian if you ignore the teachings of Jesus. It is indeed intellectually dishonest of you to reject Jesus' many biblical teachings about eternal consequences that I quoted to you (for which you had no rebuttal), but then turn around and demand biblical support for the notion of an age of accountability. In fact that may be the actual definition of intellectual dishonesty. Here is the definition from Google:
"Intellectual dishonesty means failing to apply honest, rigorous standards to one's own thinking, often to protect cherished beliefs or advance an agenda, by twisting facts, ignoring evidence, making illogical arguments, or pretending ignorance, rather than seeking truth objectively, even when you know better."
So there is no age of accountability in Scripture? Agree?
Or are you intellectually dishonest?
Nope. I am perfectly intellectually honest and consistent. There is biblical support for eternal consequences, there is biblical support for an age of accountability, and I believe in both. I'm just not going to be baited into wasting my time laying out all of that scriptural support for you in this thread yet again, because I know it will make no difference, just like it didn't make any difference to you the last three times I did it.
Also, even if there was no biblical support for an age of accountability (and there is abundant support), it would not be intellectually dishonest of me to believe in it. If we momentarily pretend there isn't abundant biblical support for the idea, an age of accountability still makes perfect logical sense with the rest of scripture, and there is nothing in scripture that would preclude it. Conversely, ultimate reconciliation is expressly precluded by the words of Jesus Christ, but you believe in it anyway.
So you have it backwards. In the hypothetical non-existent world where there is no biblical support for age or accountability, I still believe in a concept that is perfectly consistent with the rest of scripture, in addition to believing the teachings of Jesus in scripture on eternal consequences. You, on the other hand, believe something that the express text of scripture precludes, while simultaneously telling me I need to cite scripture to you in order to support my age of accountability belief.
I am being perfectly intellectually honest and consistent. You are unfortunately not.