Do you think that someone who converts while they are dying is a chicken sh-- and is suddenly scared? I mean if you take someone who for 80 years didn’t believe in God quite adamantly, don’t you think it is a tad silly that the last remaining hour of his life he converts to “cover his ***” just in case?
Why would God accept him when he is suddenly converting because he realizes his own morality.
No bible quotes, just your own PERSONAL opinion on if you think this person is a scaredy cat or not. Does it bother you Christians that you can spend your life spreading God’s “love” while at the last moment an atheist can convert and be accepted – technically speaking of course
2006-09-26 03:14:07 · 21 answers · asked by ηιgнт ѕтαя 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Oh Betty: WTF? I'm asking a QUESTION - hence why this is called Yahoo Answers. I'm looking for other's answers. Go calm down
2006-09-26 03:20:11 · update #1
there are a few case as you said - with not a steady head on their shoulder. Agnotics do that more than anyone else i suppose.
2006-09-26 03:18:59 · answer #1 · answered by senthil r 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Sometimes it takes being scared in order to start relying on God. It is not cowardice, just finally waking up.
God would accept the deathbed conversion because He is so loving that He has been waiting for this moment for the entire life of the person. Love is patient.
There is a parable in which Jesus speaks of a vineyard owner that hires laborers to work the vineyard. He finds some people at the beginning of the day and tells them he will pay them to work in his field. The owner goes out at noon and hires more people. Close to teh end of the day, he hires more people.
At the end of the day, he calls the people who had only been working for an hour or two and gives them a full days wage. The people who started working at noon get a full days wage. The people who worked from the beginning of the day get a full day's wage.
The people who had worked from the beginning of the day complained that this was not fair. The owner said that they had agreed to work for a full days wage. The owner then asked them why they were so upset that he was so generous?
Those of us who have been following Christ for all our lives should not be jealous because God welcomes someone with a deathbed conversion and gives that person the same reward that we will receive. If we are jealous, we are not following Christ. instead, we should rejoice that God is so generous and that someone who had been lost has found his or her way before it was too late.
It does not bother me. It makes me happy and relieved that someone who was close to being lost forever has been saved.
2006-09-26 03:27:44 · answer #2 · answered by Sldgman 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My wife and I have a friend, who two years ago had suffered a very serious stroke. In her 70's, she had lived a life denying God altogether. But in the aftermath of the stroke, she was faced with her own mortality. Knowing there was a strong likelihood that she might not survive the stroke, she made a deathbed conversion, a public conversion to Jesus Christ.
Was it fear? Quite likely. During her life, she had heard the Gospel, she had heard preachers, friends, family, and co-workers talk about the Lord.
Given those circumstances, who wouldn't consider the possibility that Jesus could save them?
There is a short verse that must be shared.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. (from Psalms)
If we're brought to a point when there is no other "out," we might be considered foolish to not take it.
Our friend survived the stroke, and lives in a nursing home now, but she has fallen in love with the Lord and reads her Bible daily.
She's full of questions when we visit, and excited to be still learning things about God as she approaches her 80th year.
2006-09-26 03:29:48 · answer #3 · answered by Bob L 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've never heard of anyone doing that. The only _claim_ of it was Charles Darwin, and that was a lie. Thousands of godnazis made up and repeated the claim that Darwin becoming a "christian" on his deathbed when visited by Lady Whore - oops, Hope. It was a lie told and repeated to discredit Darwin's work.
> "I was present at his deathbed. Lady Hope was not present during
> his last illness, or any illness. I believe he never even saw her,
> but in any case she had no influence over him in any department of
> thought or belief. He never recanted any of his scientific views,
> either then or earlier. We think the story of his conversion was
> fabricated in the U.S.A. [...] The whole story has no foundation
> whatever."
- Henrietta Darwin, Charles' daughter, in the magazine "Christian"
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2006-09-26 03:32:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
We revere reason, no longer Dawkins. Dawkins could become a fundie day after today, and that isn't substitute what he's declared interior the previous, and that we agree along with his good judgment. just about no atheists see him as our chief, considering that we don't see atheism as something that is lead. in assessment to Christianity, we don't promptly have faith somebody purely with the aid of fact a lot of human beings do, we unquestionably pay attention to their arguments and severely evaluate them with our suggestions first. we don't take ethical training from them, we purely pay attention to what they say, and care little approximately what they do. for this reason, hypocrisy (if it certainly could be utilized with obtainable being a ethical lesson in contact) and transformations of coronary heart are *thoroughly beside the point* to an atheist. you may argue that atheism is a cult, yet you will possibly have an extremely difficult time organising that, considering that atheists do no longer unquestionably worship every person. God damn it, why do you fundies have lots hassle information atheism? purely considering which you worship something does no longer propose that all human beings does!
2016-10-18 00:13:44 · answer #5 · answered by turrill 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ok, now, I used to be a christian....and this actually came up from my ex-pastor one day....his take on it was that people who convert at the last minute don't get as big of a house as someone like himself who had served "god" all his adult life....how funny is that?? if you truly have love in your heart, would you really care about such petty things? I mean why would that even matter.....yet it really is an issue for them(not all of them) ! oh, to answer the other part of your question....yeah I think it's fear of the unknown that could cause that. good question girl!
2006-09-26 03:23:09 · answer #6 · answered by Joeygirl 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Just because a person repents does not mean they are going to Heaven.
God will not be deceived. If a person puts off accepting God's mercy and redemption, they may be put off when they ask for God to forgive them.
It is not mealy saying that you are sorry, it is a heart rending process. It can take quite some time (hours, days, more) to get your self to the place where your are acceptable for God to accept your prayer of salvation.
The longer you put off God, the more sins you will have to work through, the longer it usually takes.
2006-09-26 03:20:51 · answer #7 · answered by tim 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Interesting thought. Did you know that Constantine put Christianity as the state religion, as it was politically the thing to do, but he did not convert till on his deathbed? And, he is the big savior (small ''s'') of Christianity.
2006-09-26 03:24:58 · answer #8 · answered by Shossi 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
My personal belief/opinion.......
That person has not done what is required of us. There is more to it than just suddenly becoming a believer. I do not believe they will make it.
BUT, it isn't our decision, it's between them and God.
Let's just say it's best to have our bases covered like it is commanded of us.
2006-09-26 03:27:37 · answer #9 · answered by kenny p 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't believe death bed conversions happen very often. I was a nurse with terminal patients for many years and don't recall ever seeing this.
2006-09-26 03:28:17 · answer #10 · answered by a_delphic_oracle 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
LOL yes, I agree. I will not be one of those who lack the streangth of their convictions when faced with death. If I should find out I was wrong about "god"'s non-existance, I still feel I am right about his non-involvement in things he should be taking care of, and he will get an earfull of my opinion of him as I am sent down the shoot to hell with pride.
2006-09-26 03:19:36 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋