Babies and the age of accountability
The loss of a child is devastating. I will not say any more. For Christians who believe the teaching of the Bible, the child has a sin nature that separates them from God. People are separated from God for the simple reason of sin. The human nature of sin, inherited from our Father Adam (Romans 5:12-21), is passed on to all generations, not unlike a genetic defect and is part of us before we are born to make conscious decisions. The Bible has a lot to say about the womb because God sees and knows us from the womb . Psalm 53:8 (NKJV) says, “The wicked are estranged from the womb...” Our problem is not just in what we do in life, but in who we are from conception. Obviously, no one wants to think of their aborted baby, miscarried baby, stillborn baby, or child who dies at a young as being in hell. Emotionally, the thought is simply too much to bear and contradicts all of the Bible’s teaching about God’s love, God’s grace, and God as a loving and gracious Fath...