I no longer hold to any "age of accountability"; I freely grant that God may perhaps choose to grant mercy as he wishes, but much of the argumentation I have seen strikes me as rather philosophical rather than exegetical, and the one passage I have seen to try to suggest one involving David's stillborn infant strikes me as a weak argument.
Incidentally, since I adopted annihilationism, I have found this a much easier pill to swallow on a personal level. It seems to take a lot of the sting of the emotional argumentation about babies in hell; that and viewing life in terms of being a gift from God. But I am not attempting to make this into a thread about that.
Of course, if God does wish to extend mercy broader than we expect, that would be joyous, but I do not think we can be dogmatic about it.
Incidentally, since I adopted annihilationism, I have found this a much easier pill to swallow on a personal level. It seems to take a lot of the sting of the emotional argumentation about babies in hell; that and viewing life in terms of being a gift from God. But I am not attempting to make this into a thread about that.
Of course, if God does wish to extend mercy broader than we expect, that would be joyous, but I do not think we can be dogmatic about it.
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