2006-10-29 09:01:23 · 33 answers · asked by Joe V 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You seem to have a very mathematical outlook toward religion. I wonder if you're a math major. Even if what you say is true, it doesn't make sense. If, on your deathbed, you decide that you really want to live the kind of life god wants you to live, and to spend eternity with this god, why should you not feel the same now? If this is the life you want after death, why shun it now? If you want a different life now, then why not spend the after-life with the friends you made during life?
2006-10-29 09:07:32 · answer #1 · answered by lottyjoy 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
you might not have the chance to have a death bed
you might just die on the spot (not that i want you to, i hope you live a long life)
would you rather wait until the last minute to clean your house before guests come or would you rather it be clean and all you have to do is a little touch-up
tomorrow is promised to know man and nobody knows what is in their future.
get the vaccine before the break-out just to be safe when it comes
besides if you wait till the last minute to repent after purposely living a life of sin you might as well not, you're really not sincere or concerned with the condition of your soul, you have the chance now but want to wait. it might be too late or you could push away the voice of God calling to you so much that you stop hearing and He stops calling. there is one unforgivable sin, blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. when you feel him prod, respond, otherwise you may never feel him again and go to hell without a chance to be saved
2006-10-29 09:12:29 · answer #2 · answered by Deborah 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's due to WOO WOO WOO notions like this, that we are kept from truth. That our Creator is eternally forgiving.
People say they same about reincarnation, so Spirit vieled the knowledge. People said, "If I'll live agian. I'll do what I want,
and get it right in the next life." HA HA HA!
Everything has gone on as it has, and after this time of change,
it will continue to go on as it has. But now is not the time to be
playing around! It is a time where those who face the spiritual changes bravely, and help others to do so. Will get a special reward.
They will be carried to the heights, and be rulers over Creation.
If you want to keep reincarnating 999 times. That's your
choice. But there is no guarantee one will reincarnate my
friend. Because any life can cause one to experience enough
pain to make them stoop to a leve; of hatred that will draw them to the lower worlds. And it ain't pretty!
2006-10-29 09:13:16 · answer #3 · answered by zenbuddhamaster 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mainly is because your deathbed could be a ball of fire under an 18 wheeler on the interstate in 1/10 of a second, Can you repent in that length of time, especially when you are frozen in shock as it happens? Know how many die in car crashes every day? About one every 12 minutes or 120 per day, or 43800 or so per year.
2006-10-29 09:16:12 · answer #4 · answered by hillbilly 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because you truly have to mean what you say, and who knows if you'll get a death bed to lie on. It's better to live a life saved because you know 100% the rest of your life that when you die you will be in heaven. If you live your life saved, you can worry about doing good for other people and sharing God's love instead of whether you will live the next day.
2006-10-29 09:03:17 · answer #5 · answered by Courtney B 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If you expend your life worrying about your sins is because you are constantly sinning with out trying not to do so.
But when you try to avoid sin all your life, you are at peace, because you try to avoid it to stay close to God. Every time you sin you separate farther from God.
But also God loves us even when we do not love ourselves, and he will forgive us if we do repent from our hearts. And he knows you from before you where in your mother's womb and will be there waiting for you to call on him at the end, simply because he wants you to love him too.
God also wants you to be part of the eternal feast, he has a Mansion and there he prepared a room for you.
2006-10-29 09:17:32 · answer #6 · answered by SEG48 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes you can be saved on your death bed, I know many who have waited, but I would not suggest it, because you may not have time, Because death may come to quick at the final hour. And also God tells us, in His Word, "My Spirit shall not always strive with man." Don't wait till it is too late. Also the longer you are saved the longer you have to work for the Lord and lay up treasures in Heaven. Those you wait till the final hour will have no treasures, How sad?
2006-10-29 09:15:10 · answer #7 · answered by PREACHER'S WIFE 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thou shalt not put the Lord Thy God to the test. Jesus says this when the Devil tempted him. Many people have thought this but, you can not be sure that your repentance and salvation will be granted to you. It is all a gift. You must hate sin and if you do what you say it is obvious that you do not hate sin but, love it more than Jesus. I wouldn't push the envelope.
2006-10-29 10:51:49 · answer #8 · answered by Midge 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not everyone will have the time to repent at the last second. Some people die almost instantly, while others linger on in agony.
Are you willing to risk waiting till the last moment to repent?
2006-10-29 09:05:29 · answer #9 · answered by WC 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
While many have answered you that you may not have time to repent, since we aren't given promise of tommorrow, I will answer another way.
What if you lose someone you love to hell, since you waited, and didn't want to be saved right now? you have much in your life now, before eternity. How many can be affected by your choice to wait in the world?
2006-10-29 09:14:52 · answer #10 · answered by 2ndchhapteracts 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋