Ken Lay, as life slips away, says "I'm sorry, Lord." What happens to him?

Question

Curious to see the reaction here.

Answer 1

he should've been sorry sooner.......like when he defrauded all those people. if he was really sorry he'd give back all that money threefold.

i don't think he meant it.......i think it was a last ditch effort.

Answer 2

I think the Lord is all loving. Ken Lay was greedy and selfish but he did not commit a sin to keep him out of heaven. It's pretty crappy that people who were affected by his greed cannot find it in themselves to forgive! Everyone makes mistakes, does that mean we should all live in hell?

Answer 3

It isn't what he says.... it is what he believes. Is he genuinely sorry for ruining the 401Ks of thousands of employees? Does he, in this moment, feel genuine shame for defrauding little old ladies of their savings? Does he ask God for forgiveness out of these genuine feelings?

The scandal of Christianity is that if he does feel this way, genuine perfect contrition, then.... YES. He is saved. That is the one unique aspect of Christianity: the firm and definitive belief that nobody is beyond saving. Redemption is always, always possible.

Perhaps some people need their religion to offer them the salacious thrill of knowing someone's certainly headed for hell. Christianity proposes no such certainty. If you need a belief that forecloses all redemptive possibility, than Christianity is not for you.

Christianity is about faith, hope, and love. Those who need to embrace a darker karma will have to look elsewhere.

Answer 4

he is allowed into Heaven because God forgives us for our sins. But that is only if Ken Lay accepted The Lord as his saviour.

...but I like to think he'll burn in hell for the lives he destroyed.

Answer 5

Hopefully, nothing good. He doesn't deserve to be forgiven. He ruined the lives of so many people, and left them in a horrible situation. Saying that he's "sorry, Lord" doesn't make up for that. He deserves to rot in hell for eternity. I don't care if he's actually, genuinely sorry. He defrauded thousands of innocent people out of their savings. He left them without their 401K's, and pretty much stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from people. Because of him, people's kids are having trouble staying in college. People that should have years ago can't because of him. I don't care if he's sorry, I don't care if he feels guilty, I don't care if he tells God he's sorry. I want him to rot in hell. I want him to feel the horrible horrible pain that he put all of these other people through. I want him to rot in hell.

Answer 6

WHAT JESUS SAID ABOUT DEATH

Jesus Christ spoke about the condition of the dead. He did so with regard to Lazarus, a man whom he knew well and who had died. Jesus told his disciples: “Lazarus our friend has gone to rest.” The disciples thought that Jesus meant that Lazarus was resting in sleep, recovering from an illness. They were wrong. Jesus explained: “Lazarus has died.” (John 11:11-14) Notice that Jesus compared death to rest and sleep. Lazarus was neither in heaven nor in a burning hell. He was not meeting angels or ancestors. Lazarus was not being reborn as another human. He was at rest in death, as though in a deep sleep without dreams. Other scriptures also compare death to sleep. For example, when the disciple Stephen was stoned to death, the Bible says that he “fell asleep.” (Acts 7:60) Similarly, the apostle Paul wrote about some in his day who had “fallen asleep” in death.—1 Corinthians 15:6.


The Bible teaches that the dead “are conscious of nothing at all.” They are not alive and have no conscious existence anywhere. The account of Lazarus confirms this. Upon returning to life, did Lazarus thrill people with descriptions of heaven? Or did he terrify them with horrible tales about a burning hell? No. The Bible contains no such words from Lazarus. During the four days that he was dead, he had been “conscious of nothing at all.” (Ecclesiastes 9:5) Lazarus had simply been sleeping in death.—John 11:11.
The account of Lazarus also teaches us that the resurrection is a reality, not a mere myth. Jesus raised Lazarus in front of a crowd of eyewitnesses. Even the religious leaders, who hated Jesus, did not deny this miracle.

Think about this too: If Lazarus had been in heaven for those four days, would he not have said something about it?— And if he had been in heaven, would Jesus have made him come back to earth from that wonderful place?— Of course not!

Yet, many people say that we have a soul, and they say that the soul lives on after the body dies. They say that Lazarus’ soul was alive somewhere. But the Bible does not say that. It says that God made the first man Adam “a living soul.” Gen. 2:7, Adam was a soul. The Bible also says that when Adam sinned, he died. He became a “dead soul,” and he returned to the dust from which he had been made. The Bible also says that all Adam’s offspring inherited sin and death too.

The Scriptural teaching of the resurrection, however, is not compatible with the doctrine of the immortality of the soul. If an immortal soul survived death, no one would need to be resurrected, or brought back to life. Indeed, Martha expressed no thought about an immortal soul that was living on elsewhere after death. She did not believe that Lazarus had already gone to some spirit realm to continue his existence. On the contrary, she showed her faith in God’s purpose to reverse the effects of death. She said: “I know he will rise in the resurrection on the last day.” (John 11:23, 24) Likewise, Lazarus himself related no experiences of some afterlife. There was nothing to report.

Clearly, according to the Bible, the soul dies and the remedy for death is the resurrection.

Answer 7

He was Bush's friend....and a Christian...and the son of a Baptist Preacher, so he obviously is in 'heaven'.
Funny thing, isn't it?

Sorta leaves you thinking, "why bother being good when all we need to do is repent on our deathbed"?

Big loophole in an even bigger lie.

Answer 8

Anyone who says that they "know" what happens to him is lying.

Whatever happens is between the Lord and the dying person.

Answer 9

Unless he was truly sorry for what he did, he goes to purgatory (He has to really controvene God's laws to go to hell.)

Answer 10

Only God can judge the human heart.

Answer 11

He's still just dead. Nothing happens to him. He ceases to exist. Good ridence.