Accountability
Gordon Cheng / 15th April 2008
/ Bible insights
Where does the Bible teach our accountability to each other?
Nowhere.
We will certainly be accountable to God on the final day of judgement; the Bible is very clear on this. But is there even a single verse which teaches that Christians are accountable to each other? Verses which teach that we should encourage each other, confess our sins to each other (and so on) come close, but they are not the same.
The demanding of accountability to a human judge is more a feature of state rule (in which case, it is legitimate) or Roman Catholicism (in which case, it is not).