Age of Accountability

Connections List
 * Mortal sin, apostasy
 * Losing salvation
 * All have sinned
 * Abortion
 * Not created equally
 * People who don't hear
 * Predestination
 * Core gospel

Scope/topics
 * At what age (if any) are humans accountable for their sins?
 * At various ages, what is required for salvation?
 * What happens to aborted children?
 * Mentally disabled?

Topics/mech
 * Verses for threshold
 * Verses for evil since birth
 * Mental thresholds
 * Option election
 * Methods of recognizing God when young

Verses for threshold
 * Isaiah 7:15 about JC "He will be eating curds and honey when he knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right."
 * Phil Unti says historical age was 20 or 21
 * 3-6 bate fear, 6-12 bate midrash, 13-20 bate ?, 20-30 study under rabbi

Counterpoints related to original sin.
 * Psalm 51:5-6 "Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me. Yet you desired faithfulness even in the womb; you taught me wisdom in that secret place."
 * Psalm 22:9-10 "Yet you brought me out of the womb; you made me trust in you even at my mother's breast. From birth I was cast upon you; from my mother's womb you have been my God."
 * Prov 22:15 "folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far away"
 * Genesis 8:21 every inclination is evil since birth. But that is hyperbole.

References
 * Goodish sermons from Piper on it.