i ask because i know that christians believe that accepting christ as your lord and savior is the way to heaven. but what if a person is "saved" but does wrong all the time, basically doing what they feel like doing. they still get to go to heaven if they are saved but cheat, steal, fornicate, lie, or whatever?
2006-07-13 14:53:56 · 40 answers · asked by Katrina 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
"Not everyone who says to me, `Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, `Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?' Then I will tell them plainly, `I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!'" Matthew 7:20-23
2006-07-13 14:56:11 · answer #1 · answered by esero26 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Salvation is not something that can be taken away, so no, if you have excepted Christ as your Lord and savior and the only way to heaven. but blessings here or in Heaven will not be what God had for you. and also, your statement is a little contradictory. When you become a Christian you are a new creation, your flesh has died. yes, Christians sin, but your life is supposed to reflect your relationship with Jesus Christ. If someone was doing all of these things and still walking around calling themselves a Christian, i would be a little skeptical. but always remember God loves you no matter what you have done in your life and he will accept you. Confess your sins and he is faithful and just to forgive your sins and cleans you from all unrighteousness. No your salvation cannot be taken away, but by others it would be questioned if u lived this lifestyle.
God Bless!!
2006-07-13 15:03:58 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don;t believe that a truly saved person can lose his salvation and go to hell . But I don't think that a truly saved person would live a life that you describe and not try to change . When a person gets saved the Bible compares it to being born again " old things (sins) are all passed away and all things become new . The saved person gets a clean slate. Its not easy to be a Christian , Christians still fail and mess up . But they don't lose their salvation because they sin after they are saved . There is no such thing as a perfect person christian or not .
2006-07-13 14:57:54 · answer #3 · answered by british 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christians believe that if someone has truly made a committment to Christ, than their lives will be changing for the better. While we are not saved by good works - we are saved to good works. I would wonder about the salvation of anyone who, after having made such a confession, continues to live in open, unrepentent sin.
1 John 2:19 speaks of "those who went out from amoung the Christian because they were never part of them" - meaning people who claimed to be Christian, but then left the church, lost their Bibles, forgot about prayer and lived like the world. John says they were Christians to begin with.
And of course the infamous words of Jesus ,"Not everyone who says to me Lord Lord shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of man Father in heaven." Matthew 7:21
I believe that everyone who has made a true, life changing committment to Christ goes to heaven. But not everyone who has even prayed to be saved as actually done that. And it is usually evident in their lifesytle.
Nowhere in the Bible does it say you go to heaven by accepting Jesus as your savior. It says you have to confess him as your LORD (Romans 10:9) Ture Christian make it in, fake ones don't.
2006-07-13 15:10:21 · answer #4 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No christian is really "saved" if they fornicate, kill and do horrible sins. They will be punished the same as the rest non-Christians. That's called cheating. You can call yourself a christian and be the worst criminal on earth and don't go to heaven unless they ask for God for forgiveness.
2006-07-13 14:56:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Acctually, its a personal opinion...... I've been to churches that are once saved always saved. And then I've been to churches that they think you can lose your salvation. Personally, I think if you just do what you feel like doing and think that you can just up and go to Heaven, then maybe you were not truely saved in the first place. If you are truely saved you will want to be Christ like, learn from you mistakes ask for forgiveness and try your best not to do it again.
2006-07-13 15:00:42 · answer #6 · answered by Alicia 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just cause you are saved is not just a free ticket into heaven.
It means you've accepted God and understand his rules and laws. The 10 commandments still hold true, even more so after you are saved or born again.
To go to church on Sunday and act all holy and then go and sin all week long is what they call a bigot.
2006-07-13 14:57:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i do no longer think in "Biblical inerrancy" and yet many non-Christians label me as a "fundie" and "evangelical. I take a touch educational/scholarly suggestions-set to the Bible. even nonetheless, despite if I have been to take a thoroughly literal view of the full Bible (alongside with the e book of Revelation) I nevertheless could no longer justify the perception in an eternal torture chamber. The wages of sin is dying. The lake of hearth is the "2d dying" the place dying and Hades are destroyed continuously. it relatively is why an "eternal hell" does not make experience. The soul has not at all been certain eternal life. it relatively is why Jesus got here...to grant us eternal life (John 3:sixteen). Even eternal torment in hell continues to be eternal life.
2016-10-07 21:46:06 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If a person is still doing these things and enjoying them then they need to go back and check their salvation. 11Cor 5:17 "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." In other words when a person excepts Christ as their Saviour, He changes their what tos.
2006-07-13 15:19:13 · answer #9 · answered by PREACHER'S WIFE 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bottom line is God only knows your heart.
There were 12 disciples. How many of them would you presume are in heaven?
While the 12 travelled with Jesus, people probably saw Judas as a Christian -- only 1 really knew his heart.
2006-07-13 14:58:33 · answer #10 · answered by Gary R T 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that as long as you do the right thing you'll most likely go to heaven. Not everyone has their own religion but everyone has the same principles. People know right from wrong, and as long as they follow those principles they should go to heaven either way.
2006-07-13 14:58:05 · answer #11 · answered by poetic_lala 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋