In a Christian belief system, would mentally ill people be accountable for their sins?

Would schizophrenic who committed murder go to hell? Does sin require both mens rea and actus rea, to use legal terminology?In a Christian belief system, would mentally ill people be accountable for their sins?
Couldn't it be argued that all murderers are mentally unstable? What happens to them?In a Christian belief system, would mentally ill people be accountable for their sins?
Luke chapter 12 addresses this. God will judge according to how we lived up to our capacity.
Do you have proof that god's creation of humans is so imperfect that people suffer from mental illness which renders them incompetent? Or did that condition just evolve?
Happily we can leave this vexing question to God. He alone can judge. Jesus differentiated between the man possessed by demons in Gaderene and a man with epilepsy. However there appears to be no mention of the modern condition known as mental illness.


Madness is referred to:





1. Deuteronomy 28:28


The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart:


Deuteronomy 28:27-29 (in Context) Deuteronomy 28 (Whole Chapter)


2. Ecclesiastes 1:17


And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.


Ecclesiastes 1:16-18 (in Context) Ecclesiastes 1 (Whole Chapter)


3. Ecclesiastes 2:12


And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what can the man do that cometh after the king? even that which hath been already done.


Ecclesiastes 2:11-13 (in Context) Ecclesiastes 2 (Whole Chapter)


4. Ecclesiastes 7:25


I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:


Ecclesiastes 7:24-26 (in Context) Ecclesiastes 7 (Whole Chapter)


5. Ecclesiastes 9:3


This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.


Ecclesiastes 9:2-4 (in Context) Ecclesiastes 9 (Whole Chapter)


6. Ecclesiastes 10:13


The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness: and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.


Ecclesiastes 10:12-14 (in Context) Ecclesiastes 10 (Whole Chapter)


7. Zechariah 12:4


In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.


Zechariah 12:3-5 (in Context) Zechariah 12 (Whole Chapter)


8. Luke 6:11


And they were filled with madness; and communed one with another what they might do to Jesus.


Luke 6:10-12 (in Context) Luke 6 (Whole Chapter)


9. 2 Peter 2:16


But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb *** speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.


2 Peter 2:15-17 (in Context) 2 Peter 2 (Whole Chapter)
Schizophrenia is not of God. The Bible says he created in us a sound mind. God is a just God and will judge everyone accordingly. The same way he would not send an unbaptized infant to hell, he would not condemn a person with certain brain or mental dissabilities. (notice I said certain) :o)
If they repent no...
Sin is rebellion against God, so I think that if you aren't capable of understanding what you're doing, you can't really be accountable. The Bible prescribes atonements for deaths that are unsolved and accidental, so clearly not all deaths are murders under God's law.