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This following is a controversial subject and there are many differing points of view, but this is my opinion. You have yours as well.

There is an age of accountability. A child is old enough to make his own decisions at about age 7. He is already independently, although immaturely, functioning in the mental sense, and he can sin if he chooses to. The sin nature manifests itself at an early age. It’s when children are in elementary school that they become bullies, or have childhood crushes on another, or play hooky, etc. That’s when they literally learn to sin. That’s also when most people are saved, at that young age before they become hardened by the world. Jesus Christ can save anyone at any age, but Satan has a bid for your child!!

Up until the first grade, generally children are unable to make their own choices as they do when they get older, because their minds aren’t yet as developed. And so, if a young child, say under the age of 6, dies, they are considered “safe” in Jesus instead of “saved” BY Jesus, and they go directly to Heaven. Can you imagine little babies, or toddlers, or kindergarten-age children in Hell, because they willfully sinned? No, you cannot. That is unthinkable. God doesn’t permit that at all.

It’s also very hard to imagine a teenager there. God doesn’t permit that either. The age of accountability is 20, not 7 like I said before. That is when our brain is fully developed, and we can reason as an adult. From 20 years up is when people decide to do right or do wrong. The teen years are when physical changes are made, e.g., puberty, but the brain is matured afterward.

THAT is why we must tell the children and teach them about Jesus Christ and His love for them at as early an age as possible, because children HEAR and IMITATE EVERYTHING they are surrounded by. Their minds are like sponges, absorbing every smile, every gesture, every laugh, molding every part of their environment into their consciousness as they grow. Not like us old crusty fuddy-duddies who are so set in our ways that it takes a crane to move us. Jesus loves the little children, and He wants us to be like them when we believe.

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