Of course innocent children don't go to hell. You can't expect a 3 year old to know about Jesus.?

Question

What is the age at which you are expected to know about and accept Jesus as your savior, in order to avoid hell?

Answer 1

Well, in your case, since you're denying infants the privilege of being in God's kingdom, I would have to say that as soon as the child can answer some basic questions to the evaluating person/board's satisfaction, the child is of the age age of reason necessary for baptism to take place. Make sure it's an immersion, you want to get the formula right.

Answer 2

It is the age of accountability when the child knows right from wrong and hear about Jesus.... I have seen it as Early as 4 years old and and many more 8-10 God knows their hearts, just make sure they are taught the bible and what Jesus did!
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Answer 3

It's referred to as the age of accountability. Nobody really knows what it is. Most probably it is not a specific chronological age but more a developmental age. That point at which you know the difference between right and wrong and that there are consequences.

~Neeva

Answer 4

There are four views that define people’s convictions about this dilemma. They are:

1. All children (born and unborn), all who are mentally incapacitated, and all who die in the ignorance of unbelief are elected to perdition;

2. All children (born and unborn) under the "age of accountability," all mentally incapacitated--anyone, who does not meet the "condition of accountability" and all those who are frozen in the ignorance of unbelief are elected, without exception to eternal life;

3. God has elected some as vessels of mercy and others as vessels of wrath out of His own sovereign free will, being no respecter of persons and therefore not obligated by reason of someone's predisposed conditions regardless of age, mental incapacity or ignorance, but solely according to His own purpose, after the council of His own will, for the praise of His glory alone; and,

4. When Scripture is silent and/or non-dogmatic about any issue, then we must resign ourselves to God and His Sovereignty, for some things still remain to us a mystery and with that we must be content.

In response to number two, it seems in lack of biblical certainty, that it would be unloving to extend to someone "absolute assurance" where Scripture itself is not absolutely clear. What we can give unshakable assurance to, is that God is just and righteous desiring that none should perish; delighting not in the death of the wicked; and is at the same time both loving and holy, just and merciful, wrathful and full of grace. And in all that He does, He does with absolute perfection befitting His own righteous, holy character after the council of His will, to accomplish His purpose, for His own pleasure and for His glory alone (Cp, Ephesians 1:4-14). And it is there, that we must rest, find our resolve, and leave it with Him.

Answer 5

There is no specific age. The Bible talks about an "age of accountability" in passages like this one that talks about knowing good from evil.

Deuteronomy 1:35 'Not one of these men of this evil generation shall see the good land that I swore to give to your fathers, 36 except Caleb the son of Jephunneh. He shall see it, and to him and to his children I will give the land on which he has trodden, because he has wholly followed the LORD!'

37 Even with me the LORD was angry on your account and said, 'You also shall not go in there. 38 Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, he shall enter. Encourage him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it. 39 And as for your little ones, who you said would become a prey, and your children, who today have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in there. And to them I will give it, and they shall possess it.

In this account the "little ones" were everybody under the age of 20 but like I said, it's the ability to understand right and wrong and not a specific age.

Answer 6

Children don't go to hell. It is expected that this decision would be comprehend maybe by 12 as the age of accountability.

Answer 7

Of course not. No one goes to hell or heaven for that matter. The whole concept of an afterlife is absurd.

Answer 8

According to what I was taughtt, children who die before reaching the age of reason(knowing right from wrong, varies w/ individual) go to limbo, where they don't suffer, but can never reach heaven, nor will they ever go to hell (outer darkness or sheol, place of damnation ,Etc. ).

Answer 9

you just have to know that God created "Mercy" and God is the most merciful of all in this entire universe.
no matter how merciful and worried you feel about children for example..its just nothing compared to God's mercy.

and thats what makes you feel good,and love God even more.

Answer 10

It different for everyone.

Only God knows the age it is for each individual.

Pastor Art