Say the vampire (male or female), repented, prayed to be restored to life, if not, bought blood from a blood bank to survive, and lived a Christian life as best he or she could without bothering people, would God help? After all, a vampire isn't really dead is it is walking around leading some kind of a life.
2006-07-26 13:28:33 · 23 answers · asked by ZORRO 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
As long as (he or she) took the 7 steps for becoming a christian.
1. Lost-without God (Eph. 2:12)
2. Hear the Gospel (Romans 10:17)
3. Believe the Gospel (John 8:32)
4. Repent of Sins (Acts 17:30)
5. Confess Your Faith (Romans 10:10)
6. Be Baptized (Acts 22:16)
7. Saved in Christ (Galatians 3:27)
2006-07-26 13:34:08 · answer #1 · answered by Kapitan Mayon 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
In my own understanding of the cosmic order, both vampires and Heaven are mythological phenomena, rather than empirical facts. From that perspective, my understanding is that this question could only be answered from within the world-view of one who believes both in vampires and in the Christian Heaven--and then, the answer would be no.
The vampire, in the mythology of Christian Europe, is someone dead who has returned to life solely through the curse of vampirism. The soul, the truly immortal part of the human individual, has been exchanged for a false physical immortality through vampirism. (Remember that the Christian European version of the universal vampire myth is full of inversions or parodies of the Christian sacred--the communion wine as sacramental blood-drinking becomes murderous, cannibalistic blood-drinking; eternal life becomes eternal undeath; the crucifix as a sign of liberation-through-sacrifice becomes a symbol of aggressive power/might/protection, etc.) So, from that perspective, the lifespan during which salvation would be possible has elapsed, and the soul, the focus of that salvation, is already lost. So while you argue that "a vampire isn't really dead," this is incorrect from a theological standpoint--inasmuch as life is defined in Christian terms as the period during which individuals have access to the free-will that leads to Heaven or Hell, and in the vampire that access has expired, the vampire is already spiritually dead and irretrievable.
So, to make a short story painfully long, the answer is no.
2006-07-26 14:15:55 · answer #2 · answered by snowbaal 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The classic vampire of myth is already dead, a ghost who clings to 'life' by drinking human blood. Such a creature is already damned and as such cannot reverse his damnation and be in good graces with God. When the vampire died and became a vampire he forfeited his Salvation.
Myth aside, if a 'vampire' is not really dead, repents, resolves to sin no more, and prays (asks God) for forgiveness, then I would say that it is up to God.
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2006-07-26 17:10:47 · answer #3 · answered by H 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well that depends on your look of the story. In truth, vampires are not the people you once knew and loved. They died when they were bitten, but their BODY roams the earth. Their soul (the person you know) has already entered heaven or hell. Vampires are only husks.
However, if you want to do the boring 'medical' talk...
Vampirism has a medical name. I don't know what it is. People have a defect in their system that makes them utilise less of the iron taken into their body then normal. As we all know, when your body 'needs' something, it searches your body's 'memory' (i use that term lightly) for foods it knows produces what it needs. Therefor, as of having a lack of iron, it makes you crave iron-rich foods, such as liver. IF you have tasted blood, then their is a good chance your body stored this 'memory' as food, and makes you want blood as it knows blood contains a good amount of iron.
... But I like the first explaination better :p
2006-07-26 13:36:48 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, but a vampire would be filled with demons, so after saved, those demons would have to leave and then he wouldn't be a vampire anymore, he was only a vampire because the demons in him made him become that way.
but remember Jesus is the savior, if you just think God will help you, then it won't do any good, because God said you must know Jesus to know him.
2006-07-26 13:34:11 · answer #5 · answered by You may be right 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That would be up to god to decide if the vampire was to enter heaven. This goes for all the other types of people out there. No one has the power to judge but him.
2006-07-26 14:13:23 · answer #6 · answered by Lelly 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I think so; God can read the "heart" of anyone,esp
if the "vampire" was truly repentent, and wanted to enter
Heaven. God is omnipotent and merciful.
2006-07-26 15:07:06 · answer #7 · answered by Jaymagiclady 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I love a good Ann Rice book as the next person, but you do know that vampires arent real, right? God is God, what more can be said.
2006-07-26 14:32:50 · answer #8 · answered by ManicGemini 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well...if they could be killed using garlic and be ressurected into another NORMAL human being, then, it can happen. Besides, God is merciful enough, merciful that he helped me survive an illness where my fever was beyong 40 degrees Celsius.
If that vampire-turned-person would do something e.g. kill all the vampires, I believe, that s/he would be allowed to enter the gates of HEaveN!
2006-07-28 00:25:31 · answer #9 · answered by archangel_of_fire_and_air 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hhahahaha First of all there is no such thing as vampires and I hope u know that..But if your talkin about fiction vams. Well they would never repent cuz they don't have a soul. You have to have a soul in order to feel shame.
2006-07-26 13:49:50 · answer #10 · answered by sweet_thing_kay04 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋