The internet is filled with topics on this subject. And a good question. Where did this so-called age of accountability or age of innocence come from? Is it Scripturally Sound doctrine? ...
Strange as to how so many Christians profess the age of innocence is true, but why didn't Jesus himself ever say anything like, "When ye become of a certain age, then ye must be born again"?
Were the babies innocent in Noah's day? ...No. Man wants to believe these things to take away God being a just judge. They have taken parts of Scripture and as the Lord has said, turned them into fables.
This also ties in with the two worlds created in Genisis ...(See the link "Two Worlds").
But here we need to see why babies are not innocent, no matter what man says. But yet a Mystery...
Many use the verse ... "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 19:14"
... But we look even further and see...
At what age did sin begin? If all have sinned and come short of the Glory of God doesn't mean babies too, then what's this "all" bit. Didn't Paul mean to write and say "For all those of a certain age have sinned and come short of the glory of God"?
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
Romans 3:23
Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
Romans 5:12
But yet do we take it that all babies go to hell if they die at an early age? The Lord has told me about some being sancified by their parents. ...
For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.
1 Corinthians 7:14
Only in this way can a baby be sanctified holy unto the Lord.
In this maybe we can see why the Lord was preaching to the adults. You sanctify the head, and the body is also sanctified.
Sanctification: The way God created man is to follow an order...
1. God
2. Husband
3. Wife
4. Child
Sometimes if the husband is fallen, the family is sanctified holy before God by the believing wife. But there is no Scripture of the mother or father being sanctified by the child.
If we break this order (or as I refer to it as Gods chain of command) in any way, we cannot be pleasing unto the Lord.
According to the worldy teaching anymore, the "kid" says "I want to serve this god (or religion)". The wife says to her husband, "I want to serve this other god". Then the husband in turn must come up with some kind of false god to please them (or be accused of being abusive), while walking away from God as the Head of the family.
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