Please have patience with my poor execution in communicating as I do seem to fail often in relaying my thoughts properly. Rainydaygirl asked a very poignant question and I wish the answer came easy but I too see it as difficult and perplexing. Shaking my faith? No! Very Difficult? Yes! Is it a good pursuit? Probably, as it most likely brings one to their knees. Twayneb,CyAn, and ginnyrose, you have addressed these things seeking my good and what glorifies our Lord. I would like to explain what I said a little better in hopes that the thread brings in others with light from the Spirit that my add to our understanding. No defense on my part for I am new to Chirst and have so much to learn, but these are questions that I have asked also.
As for what was said by the Apostle Paul in Twaynebs response, I was trying to identify the timing of the law which Paul speaks to as being death once it became a reality to him. What I meant to do was ask when did this occur? Did Paul recognize the law as death to Him as a teen, or as a young man, or as Pharisee of Pharisees? It seems in his pursuit which would find him even tracking down the bride for her slaughter, he saw the law as life to him. Not until he received sight did he see the eventual futility and death depending upon himself to follow it for his salvation. Ignorance until being given sight. Sight coming right after having received a greater dose of blindness? Spiritual sight, that comes from regeneration.
When was Paul saying he was accountable? That was my question?
The only way I as a Christian can effectively train my son accountability is to first make him accountable to God. So from the earliest point of childhood I begin that process. How then when he understands (and he does understand as a young child who is trained this way) that he has first sinned against God does he receive a pass until a supposed later age that will bring about what he already knows? With that being the case does does it benefit the child to hold off this accountability until they achieve a greater level of understanding and reasoning? That was the question in order to spark the greater conversation and question our logic.
Ginnyrose, there is for me, no greater issue that stands before us short of Christ's recognition and obeisance, than abortion. Your efforts in it will be judged, rewarded, and the crowns given will be radiated at Jesus's feet by the glory of the Lord that ever flows from Christ our God. When scripture speaks to orphans can there be a greater orphaned group than these? To have counseled the moms who have been abandon by men is to have cared for the widow in form. To have have cared for the God designed miracle inside the mom is to have cared for the one (orphan) who would be soon abandoned and killed.
How does God consider these little ones? I would prefer to understand it the way I would reason it, but is my reasoning like His? This is where I was concerned that we could err in forming a doctrine from what has so little light shed upon it. It may not supply the greatest comfort at times and it may not give us the consolation we desire that could be passed onto others but at least it will not be abused and used to support a lie that so easily would be the ammunition of the evil one. This was the concern, not the wrong it presented the care center, rather the tool it provides the abortion clinic counselor who would use it to propagate and perpetuate this terrible evil.
I do hope that others will respond to the questions the original poster posed.
