Before the believer is regenerated he or she is in a state of condemnation. Meaning, even though redemption is particular and sinners actually purchased on the cross, sinners experience the application of the atonement in actual time. Those people that are a part of the great eternal covenant, the church, actually experience going from death to life at a particular point in their lifetime.
Much the same way, all humans have Adam’s inherited guilt, yet they experience it in time. Rom. 1:18-20 (Read it) seems to indicate that those who do not have the ability to see and understand God’s general, creative, revelation, do have an excuse before God. They are not held accountable for their sins. Those who have the ability to see God’s invisible attributes, and his eternal power seen in creation are held without excuse.
In the same way salvation is both certain, actual, and yet experienced in time by the people of God, those unable to comprehend God’s creation (All aborted babies and infant children) are both sinners and innocent. In reality, I think Romans 1 shows us that those who have an excuse, were actually purchased and redeemed by Jesus on the cross! They are a part of that glorious Eternal Covenant! Praise God that Salvation belongs to the Lord.
Now as far as when the “Age of Accountability is?” Impossible to know.
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