It’s written in the Bible that “all have sinned,” then we watch the St. Jude adds on TV and wonder what sins these unfortunate handicapped and cancer patient children have committed. Do you wonder as I do about that? Some are but babes yet. Can someone explain please?
The Bible says that the angels always behold the face of the Father for the little ones which means we are born innocent with no sin on our record, and the angels protect us spiritually until the time of accountability.
Adam and Eve were created knowing God and had an innocent nature, and we are not blamed for their sin for that is their sin and everybody will be responsible for their own sins.
It would of never entered their mind to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil unless an outside source tempted them.
So God allowed Satan to tempt Eve and she said that they could not eat of the tree for that is all she could know and think.
Then Satan tempted her with an alternate reality that she will be greater and they would be like gods and she sinned, and then Eve was the outside source that tempted Adam by showing him she did not die and nothing bad happened to her and he sinned.
Then they had a choice between good and evil and would have to make a choice of what they would do.
So all their offspring were born with a choice and Eve is the mother of all living, so we are born not knowing God so we will do wrong before we do right and follow God, which all have sinned, done the act not born with it, and come short of the glory of God.
So we are born innocent with no sin on our record, and God knows the heart, and intelligence of people, and knows at what point they are accountable, and it could be some of the children at Saint Jude are not at the age of accountability, and some might have been and sinned but then went to the Hospital.
Just because they are handicapped or have cancer does not mean they did not sin but God knows when they are accountable.
If they understand right and wrong then they would be accountable and if they do not understand it they would not be accountable.
If they are mentally handicapped that is severe they might not ever be accountable if they do not understand but then how did they sin that they would be accountable for which they would not but would be like the babies, and young children that do not understand.
If a baby dies when it is two months old it would not be accountable for any sins then how can all people have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
But those children at Saint Jude are adorable and appear very mild mannered, but they could of stolen something small and knew it was wrong, or something minor.
We are only accountable if we know it is wrong and we do it and I am sure that we would have to understand it thoroughly and time given us to be accountable.
But it would seem like not all have sinned and come short of the glory of God when babies, and young children, are not accountable yet, and mentally handicapped might never be accountable, but that does not mean they might not have sinned but they are not accountable for it.
So it must mean only those accountable understanding it have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
Maybe it is the guilt factor involved for a child if that young would not really feel guilty for stealing something that is lying around the house or saying no to the parents unless it is pointed out to them but then they still do not understand it fully.
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