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(circumcision and joining the covenant people as an 8 day old infant)<br />

performed long before.<br />

The Problem of the Age of Accountability<br />

The problem do not cease there. Where as Barmitzvah has defined age,<br />

believers baptism people have no defined age. Yet those groups who believe<br />

in Believers baptism would have it stated as:<br />

“Age of Accountability. We understand that there is a point reached in life at<br />

which a person becomes morally responsible to God. This age is not the same<br />

for all persons but frequently comes early in adolescence”<br />

According to this view, children of Christian parents are viewed as<br />

"unaccountable" until they reach a certain age which cannot be defined .<br />

They are neither Christians nor are they non-Christians. They are just children<br />

who are not accountable for their sins. After they reach a certain age (no one<br />

knows what this age is) a free-will decision for Jesus alone will saves a<br />

person. All of a sudden they then change the status from "unaccountable for<br />

sins" to a "condemned sinner"<br />

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