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Some Christian denominations set a specific age with respect to the age of accountability. This includes seven in the Catholic Church, and eight in Mormonism. [1] Other people put the age of accountability at 12 (since that was the age at which Jesus began to demonstrate his understanding of right and wrong) or 13 (the age of the Jewish Bar Mitzvah).
Believer's baptism is administered only to persons who have passed the age of accountability or reason, which is based upon a reading of the New Testament that only believers should be baptized. The believer's full understanding is verified by leaders when a believer makes a profession of faith before baptism.
The ages of 12 and 29, the approximate ages at either end of the unknown years, have some significance in Judaism of the Second Temple period: 13 is the age of the bar mitzvah, the age of secular maturity, [2] and 30 the age of readiness for the priesthood, although Jesus was not of the tribe of Levi. [15]
[168] Eerdman's Dictionary of the Bible also casts doubt on "the usual assumption that all NT baptisms were by immersion", stating that some early baptisteries were deep enough to stand in but not broad enough to lie down in, and mentioning that ancient representation of Christ at his baptism show him standing in waist-deep water. [169]
The term "age of accountability" also suggests that a person is accountable to God for their decisions, their resources, and their whole lives. In Community of Christ tradition a person is baptized by immersion.
Latter Day Saints believe that to be born again is referring to a true repentance. In otherwords, rejecting the carnal sinful nature of men and making a covenant with God to live a righteous, Christ like life. This covenant is done initially as baptism by immersion at the age of 8, or age of accountability, or when someone newly converts.
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The Book of Mormon has a number of doctrinal discussions on subjects such as the fall of Adam and Eve, [7] the nature of the Christian atonement, [8] eschatology, agency, priesthood authority, redemption from physical and spiritual death, [9] the nature and conduct of baptism, the age of accountability, the purpose and practice of communion ...