As I look back over the years of trying to make sense out of what I’d been taught, I wonder how God sees my obedience and my ignorance. Have you ever wondered about that? I mean, I defended everything I was taught: well, almost everything. And yet I felt this sense inside of me that something was just wrong. Maybe I just wasn’t spiritual enough. And of course to “question” was to deny my faith and potentially fall into error. Let me give you one example.
God is love! God’s love is greater than our love. You okay so far?
Then how is it that we appear to have a greater love than God in many occasions?
Does anyone think that a 3 year old who is killed in a car wreck is going to hell? Hell no! Well, let me back up and say that I am sure there are some nut cases that would think so. 
Paul tells us in Ephesians that we are children of wrath. And central to the Bible is the concept of original sin! Because Adam sinned, we’re all sinners and guilty, right? But sending a 3 year old to hell doesn’t feel right. However, she didn’t join a church, hadn’t made a public confession of her faith, made a conscious decision to accept Jesus as her Lord and Savior, so she doesn’t pass the “entrance exams“.
My denomination taught me this answer.
She had not reached the age of accountability! Oh, I see. But the Bible doesn’t say anything about that; however, it filled a nice loop hole, where my theology just didn’t make common sense. But, then I had to dig a deeper hole for myself when I was asked, “what is the age of accountability”. Crap! How do I know that! Probably 12! If not, then maybe 18 since that’s the age that a person can vote, and go off to die in a war. Would you believe 8 for a highly mature and intelligent child? Okay, how about 26 for an intellectually challenged person?
It just gets more and more ludicrous doesn’t it; unless you quit using your brain!
So, here is where I have landed. Since I am saved by GRACE, I am going to fall back on grace and not play the “accountability card” that I can’t back up with Scripture anyway. My ego hates not knowing, but you know, mysteries are a part of God and spiritual matters. So, who needs all the answers?
I’m just going to let “grace be my filler” where anything other argument might be less than disingenuous.
How about you?
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