God is not a respector of persons...is God's Grace sufficiant for all?
Can God save a liar and take him to Heaven?
If one can answer that question with a yes, why can't God do the same for someone like a murderer?...
2006-08-27 17:48:00 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Moses, David, Paul, are all example of repentant sinners, used by God anyway. Moses guilty of actual murder, David of orchestrating on,. and Paul held the cloaks of murders supporting them. John the Baptist and Jesus both preached repentance. Paul teaches all have sinned and John the Beloved says confessors are forgiven. The writer of amazing grace was a repentant slave captain. The question is not the philosophical can God but the practical and historical has God. He clearly has with just the small amount of evidence i have shown.
P.S. Only Jesus was sinless and therefore deserved to enter heaven. In God's views while some sins may only happen in our minds and imaginations that does not make innocence merely a lack of courage.
2006-08-27 17:50:18 · answer #1 · answered by danhowell_diana 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Dirty rotten sinner's whose sins have been forgiven enter God's kingdom all the time. The price of sin was paid by Jesus at the cross and God makes that gift of forgiveness free to all who will accept it. Not everyone does accept it. It was a very expensive gift, Jesus paid with his blood. Once the gift is accepted, our sins are remember no more and put as far away as the East is from the West (Not the North from the South because those two do meet - the East and West does not.) God loves you - it is not his desire that any should perish. But you do have freewill - He said He puts before us death and life and asks us to choose life. The thing that allows them in is repentance and turning from their wicked ways. EVERYONE has been there. Thank God for God's enormous grace and love for us.
2006-08-27 18:02:36 · answer #2 · answered by debbie g 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Heaven is full of dirty rotten sinners, we all are, like it or not. His grace is more than enough. Anyone can get into heaven that accepts Christ and repents. This song helps me to put it into perspecive.....
Amazing Grace! How sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now am found
Was blind, but now I see.
'Twas Grace that taught my heart to fear,
And Grace my fears relieved.
How precious did that Grace appear
The hour I first believed.
Through many dangers, toils, and snares
I have already come.
'Tis Grace hath brought me safe thus far
And Grace will lead me home.
The Lord has promised good to me.
His Word my hope secures.
He will my shield and portion be
As long as life endures.
When we've been there ten thousand years
Bright shining as the sun,
We've no less days to sing God's praise
Than when we'd first begun
2006-08-27 18:04:16 · answer #3 · answered by loira74 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
God "could" do anything He wanted to because He is God. What good would it do for God to bring an unrepentant, unsaved person into the Kingdom anyway? Sin can not exist in the presence of the Lord. You know that whole Raiders of the Lost Ark ending where the Nazi melt and burst into flames in the presence of the Ark...not so preposterous. Without the Blood of the Lamb to cover your sins, you wouldn't last a minute.
2006-08-27 18:04:02 · answer #4 · answered by moviesmiss1 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All these answers are yes. And he does for murders as well. All things are possible with Christ Jesus. for there is no sin greater than the other, and all have fallen short of the glorey of GOd, for there are none rightous, not even one. Gods grace is sufficient for ALL, even murders. God doesn't look to the outward appearance, He looks @ the heart, and the pureness there of.
2006-08-27 18:07:25 · answer #5 · answered by learning 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Scripture tells us that on the cross, Jesus turned to the man beside him and said, "Today you will be with me in Paradise." Sure, there's salvation for murderers too. It's a matter of their choice. Yes, God's Grace is sufficient for all. Even repentent murderers. Remember Carla Faye Tucker? She went to lethal injection giving praise to Jesus, repentent for what she had done, taking full responsibility for her actions, not blaming others or making excuses for herself, saying that the wages of sin is death and that she deserved her punishment, understanding that repentance does not void consequences, and singing hymns to the Lord when she died. I think she's safe. That's just one of many similar people.
2006-08-27 18:00:59 · answer #6 · answered by lizardmama 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes God is good!!! when jesus was dieing he said father forgive them for they do not know what they are doing!!! Even a murderer baby can be forgiven if he trully repents in his hearth and ask god for forgiveness it can happen!! Anybody can change if they really want it and put themselves to it!!! Everyone deserves another try!!!! remember we are all sinners!!! Nobody is perfect!!!
2006-08-27 17:55:46 · answer #7 · answered by lanenadesig06 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Paul wrote most of the New Testament - he was a former murderer. Moses wrote the first five books of the bible - he was also a former murderer.
David was the greatest king of Isreal - he was also a former murderer.
1Cr 6:9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
1Cr 6:10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
1Cr 6:11And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
2006-08-27 17:58:50 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hey, this one's for me, I'm a sinner myself, deserving Hell, just like everybody else on this planet. And yet for some reason God saw fit to send his own Son to die for me so that I might have eternal life. I'll let God make His own call as to the sheep and goats. He can do anything he wants. He is God.
2006-08-27 17:58:16 · answer #9 · answered by ccrider 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There is no reason to believe that God cannot or does not allow murderers into His kingdom (what we call "heaven"). Moses was a murderer, and most people think that this did not preclude his eligibility. "With God all things are possible."
2006-08-27 17:52:49 · answer #10 · answered by voltaire 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋