Sometimes the most difficult thing to explain to people who call themselves Christians is that would have needed to be regenerated to become a Christian and their reply many times is they cannot claim that they know when that happened to them. Most of the time they will say were always a Christian. This always causes me to question their status. The Bible claims that most children who die young will go to heaven because they had not reached the age of knowing the difference between right and wrong, which is called the reaching the age of accountability. Assuming that a child does not have a mental handicap that age is usually defined as the age of 12. So if the normal child dies before the age of 12 he or she will go to live in heaven with Jesus. However if the child dies at age 12 or later he or she will have to have accepted Jesus Christ as his or her savior in order to go to live with Jesus in heaven. His or her place of eternity will be in hell. So when someone claims they have always been a Christian do they truly know what that means and can they say when always began for them? Was it when they were born? Then if that is what they are saying are they saying that they did accept Christ after reaching the age of accountability? I think you see my point. If they are saying since they were born then they are not saying since reaching the age of accountability. So I am concluding that they never accepted responsibility of knowing the difference between right and wrong and THUS they never accepted Christ for themselves. The Bible is clear that no one else can accept Christ for another person. It must be received by each person for himself. Soo when someone claims that he has always been a Christian I will call them a liar. Regeneration has to take place sometime after a person reaches the age of accountability. Tht age might be different than 12 years of age since some people's minds develop earlier or later than others, but they must accept Christ for themselves once they have a mind to. The subject of God is A Spirit is also very challenging for me at times because we know God came as a person when born of Mary. And there are recorded instances where God's hand or face or arm is described as being used to do something and that is recorded in the Holy Bible. So is He just a Spirit, was he also a person and which is He now?