My grandparents are fairly extreme about their religion. I have had debates with them where they say that if I don't believe in Jesus as my savior then I am going to hell. I retort with, "What about people that don't know about Jesus?" They say that they are going to hell. Well, what about people that have Alzheimer's? What if they can't remember who Jesus is? What if they think that their kids name is Jesus? Is that blasphemous? Are they going to hell? It is my understanding that in Evangelical Protestantism one must believe Jesus to be the Messiah. I don't think I like this God.
2006-10-26 13:06:31 · 17 answers · asked by ottermop 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
People receive the gift of eternal life because they believed in Jesus Christ and confessed Him Lord. If get's alzheimers, Christian is still the righteousness of Christ, covered by the blood of Christ. When God looks at that evangelical Christian, God sees the righteousness of His Son.
It isn't our head knowledge that gets us into heaven. We don't remember everything to be righteous to go to heaven. No we go to heaven because we are made the righteousness of Christ. That happens when we are redeemed by the Blood of the Lamb.
If person sins aren't covered by the blood, then isn't born of God, and won't go to heaven.
2006-10-26 13:14:12 · answer #1 · answered by t_a_m_i_l 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I talked to this one minister about the same problem. HE said that if you've really never even HEARD of Jesus, and don't KNOW that you need to accept him as your savior in order to be saved, that God will NOT allow you to go to Hell, and will instead save you just like he would an infant who doesn't know better. The fact that this means that there about a billion or so EXTRA people out there who are going to be saved in addition to all the fundamentalists bothered him greatly. He hadn't realized/couldn't believe that the number was so high until I pointed out the huge number of illiterate or semi-literate peoples, or people living in remote places where they've never seen a bible let alone READ one. He ended up being quite disturbed, and asked me to leave.
2006-10-26 13:13:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't much like that god either. The questions you raise are similar to the ones that I brought up as child, and that no one in the church could answer to my satisfaction. My personal bugaboo was (and continue to be) that unbaptized babies don't go to heaven. That bothers me so much. As a child I cried for them, imaging all these little babies lying on the ground screaming for someone to pick them up and love them, and no one ever came.
I would HOPE that the gods are compassionate and don't punish people for being mentally ill (or having Alzheimer's), or for not having heard of whatever aspect (ie Jesus) they don't worship. It makes no sense that a person who lives a loving, compassionate life but has never heard of "Jesus" is consigned to hell. I don't want to be part of such a religion.
2006-10-27 01:02:38 · answer #3 · answered by Gevera Bert 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Call it a flaw in Christians dogma if you like but I'm sure there's an expanation. I'm Buddhist but am surrounded by Christians, I'll try to answer. So Christian faith has a lot of forgiveness involved. Jesus and God seem like loving and understanding entities, I'm sure they would take a Christian who forgot about Jesus.
I guess it would depend on whether the patient WOULD believe if they COULD believe, y'know?
2006-10-26 13:12:26 · answer #4 · answered by Adam 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Once your name is written in the Lamb's Book of Life it cannot be erased. Besides, the Alzheimer patient may not remember Jesus, but Jesus will never forget him or her.
2006-10-26 13:09:58 · answer #5 · answered by moviesmiss1 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It is only the physical brain that has a problem in remembering things and controlling the physical body. The persons soul is not effected by this and remembers how to release its self from the physical body and return to the maker at the appointed time.
2006-10-28 13:24:32 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are like the other 99.999% of the God haters here on answers. You have to keep digging till you find some perceived injustice you can grasp hold of and hold God responsible for. Here is your problem. When a person becomes a christian they are reborn spiritually of God. We literally become His child. What human parent would forget their where child if they became so injured that they forgot their mom and dad? If we being sinful couldn't do that then God being perfect would never do so... Back to the hate drawing board for you. You'll have to do better than this to make God out to be the bad guy... Jim
2006-10-26 13:29:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
If sometimes in their life, Alzheimer's patients, repented/turned from their sins for forgiveness of all their sins by the blood Jesus Christ shed for them at Calvary and have Jesus Christ in their life/heart/soul/spirit and lived accordingly, they are still just as much saved as they ever were. They do not have to remember it, God remembers it for them. Besides God does the saving, not people. He knows who is saved and who isn't regardless of their present mental condition.
You don't have to like God. Lots of people don't. All you have to do is read His holy word, The Holy Bible, believe it and obey it. Then I guarantee that you will not only come to like God but to love Him with all your heart/soul/mind/and strength like He wants you to. This is my prayer for you.
2006-10-26 13:27:59 · answer #8 · answered by LARRY S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus comes into your heart and spirit and he never leaves.
He said I will never you or forsake you, but I will be with you until the end.
I know that people who are unconcious, know wht you say.
My grandmother went into comas for days and came back and
told us what everyone said. I was there.
As for your grandparents they have no wisdom or love.
They could love you and it would do more that their dogmatic teaching
Words don't really mean much sometimes, it's the love we feel.
2006-10-26 13:15:34 · answer #9 · answered by Gifted 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Surely, God wouldn't banish your soul to Hell just because of Alzheimer's.
2006-10-26 13:10:12 · answer #10 · answered by ldnester 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋