Can sinners go to heaven?

Question

Surely it would be warmer in hell and all my mates would be there. Sounds like a no-brainer to me, take the "down" escalator.

This is infuriating and very very scary at the same time. 15 answers in the first 13 minutes, mostly from Jesus-lovers who didn't read the whole question. These are the people who believe what their brainwashed with from birth which includes abdicating all responsibility for their own actions.
Now, where's that escalator?

Answer 1

anyone can go to heaven since new age travelers stole the gates for scrap. only kidding.

Answer 2

NO!

Although almost everyone in heaven were at one time sinners. Jesus is the only exception.

I am going to heaven. Yes, I once was a sinner, ie it was my nature to sin without hesitation and fear of the consequences. However I was born again, this time as a saint. No it doesn't mean that I never sin, it means that my past sin has been washed away and my nature is to please God.

Hell? Mates? You won't have mates in hell just your lusts and desires without any possibility of satisfying them. No brainer? Choose life! Better now and heaven to boot.

Answer 3

No.

For those who claim absolute assurance of salvation, read on:

Philippians 2:12 "Beloved, you have always shown yourselves obedient; and now that I am at a distance, not less but much more than when I am present, work out your salvation in fear and trembling"

Rom 11:22 "There is graciousness, then in God, and there is also seerity. His severity is for those who have fallen away, His graciousness is for thee, only so long as thou dost continue in His grace; if not, thou too shalt be pruned away".

Remember that Paul was writing to Christian people of Rome and Philippi. Why would Paul write those words if those Christians were already assured of their salvation?

Consider these Paul's letters:

Rom 5:2 "We are confident in the hope of attaining glory as the sons of God."

If we are assured of salvation, then we have no reason to hope because we know for certain that heaven is ours.

Here's what Paul says about hope:

Rom 8:24 "Hope would not be hope at all if its object were in view; how could man still hope for something which he sees?"

Answer 4

you condemned yourself and your mates to hell yet most people on this forum raised you up from the depth to which you condemned yourself. Hell is not just warm its the hottest fire you can imagine that will burn sinners forever.
You should not wish hell on you and your mates it's not a nice place to go. If you have committed any sin just say you are sorry for the conscious and the unconscious sins and you will be okay.

Answer 5

Well it sounds like heaven would be a kind of hell for you.

I don't think you need to worry about going there. It looks like you've got your heart set on being with your mates (and you're assuming thats in hell).

Answer 6

Sinners die all the time and go to heaven.

Not just any sin will send you straight to hell. Only mortal sins can do that.

Sin is a deliberate thought, word, deed, or omission contrary to the eternal law of God.

A mortal sin is a grave infraction of the law of God that destroys the divine life in the soul of the sinner (sanctifying grace), constituting a turn away from God. For a sin to be mortal, three conditions must be present: grave matter, full knowledge of the evil of the act, and full consent of the will.

Most of the sins we commit are venial sins. Venial sin is a sin which does not destroy the divine life in the soul, as does mortal sin, though it diminishes and wounds it. Venial sin is the failure to observe necessary moderation, in lesser matters of the moral law, or in grave matters acting without full knowledge or complete consent.

However consistent unrepentant venial sins can slowly destroy your relationship with God and become mortal sin.

With love in Christ.

Answer 7

ABSOLUTELY!!! There isn't a man or woman who's walked this planet that wasn't a 'sinner' (except Jesus, of course). "For ALL have sinned and fall short of the glory of GOD" ------
NO WAY!! if you think it's all fun and games in Hell, guess again. The Bible calls it "Eternal death", and is a place of "great wailing and gnashing of teeth". Hell is your worst nightmare a hundred times over. Believe me-- you don't want to go there. "So as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD"

Answer 8

Not to knock down what you deem as "Hell" there is no down elevator. Hell is a state which will be experienced by all those who choose to be wicked, which will occur at the ending of this earths history. Once they have been completely destroyed by fire, God will create the surface of the earth once again, and all those who chose to follow God will be able to live there forever !!! (Oh yeah and if you want you can go visit other planets also !!!)

Answer 9

We are not sinners. We are people who have made human errors. We have only our selves to punish, no one else punishes us. There is no hell to go to. There is an Other Side that welcomes us, no matter our errors and shows us where we could have done better and what can be done to better in the next life. Sounds crazy but it is what I believe.

Answer 10

Many sinners will go to Heaven, those who accept Jesus as the Lord And Savior,(not by trying to be good enough on your own or by trying to obey laws) For the Bible plainly says none of these things will get you into the Kingdom of Heaven, it is by faith alone. Faith in Jesus Christ, and only Him.
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Answer 11

Sinners cant go to heaven because there is no heaven.

There is no hell, and there is no jesus.

So there is no escalator.