Do Soldiers Go to Heaven or Hell?

Answer 1

Unless they built robot soldiers behind my back, soldiers are people. People are all sinners and need Jesus to forgive them so they can stand clean before a Holy God. If they have given themselves to Christ and excepted that forgiveness they are heaven bound, just like the rest of us. No different for any occupation... Jim

Answer 2

Well, I was a soldier for 12 yrs, and i always tried to do the right moral thing, and I truly believed my duty was foremost to protect the innocent and try to keep the peace, but to defend the innocents and my comrades at all costs if necessary. In some circumstances as a soldier, you have to make fastball decisions that affect you and those around you; literally matters of life and death! I have thought long and hard about this question in the past and my own opinion is that as long as i know in my heart that I had taken a life to save one being taken then I can die knowing that i tried to do the right thing in a bad situation. It would still be hard to live with obviously, but that is the nature of the job; our duty if called. Soldiers have a damn difficult job as it is trying to do the right thing in the face of the "enemy". So why should soldiers go to hell just because they have killed someone in the line of duty, or are prepared to? I dont personally believe in a place called Hell anymore. I believe that as long as we accept God we will go the the other side, and we will judge our own actions whilst we have been on this earth. If we do not accept God then we go to the dark side, a different version of the Hell i was led to believe from when i was growing up! So to answer your question: It depends entirely on the soldier concerned. If they believe in God then they will go to the other side, which is good (I dont call it Heaven), however if they reject God then they will be lost on the dark side. The nature of a persons occupation has nothing to do with it! What about a firearms policeman who shots a man holding a child hostage???? What then? Same principle i think. I wonder why you ask this question?

Answer 3

Depends which side you are on: good or evil. So how do you know if you are on the right side?

If you can kill someone and relish their death and celebrate it internally you are evil and in religious terms an agent of Satan, as such you will burn in hell forever no matter what your cause.

If you do it only because you are forced to in order to protect others directly and it is both regrettable and very unpleasant for you, then you are a human being with a conscience as god intended and will be forgiven the things you have had to do through necessity.

Ultimately killing is never ever to do with god it's about the evil in people. It is a sad fact that such evil seems to be so common forcing good people to do things they would never wish to if they were given any choice.

Answer 4

Great question, which really gets deep. To even answer it you have to believe in a heaver or a hell (which I personally don't). Beyond that, you have the whole question of which side is on God's side?

Take the US/Islamic Extremist issue for example. The American soldiers are fighting for what they believe in (or at least their CO) as do Al Queda, the Taleban, or any other 'terrorist' organization out there. Everyone fights for their God, or their ideals. Who is really to say which is right and which is wrong?

Answer 5

First, being as heaven and hell obviously don't exist, they go to neither. Religion is Santa Claus for grown ups, and he don't exist either.

Second, it doesn't make sense to ask whether a class of people such as soldiers have this or that moral attribute. People have to treated as individuals, on a case by case basis.

Answer 6

The Padre’s Story. 1970.

I crossed his hands upon his chest, and gently closed his eyes.
I prayed, “Grant him eternal rest, dear God in paradise”.
They found him on the battlefield, face downward in the mud.
They told him, “Soldier do not yield, for freedom give your blood”.
His sightless eyes would never seek, adventures far away.
His voice now silent, would not speak, of youthful ventures gay.
He’d never walk a country lane, to hear the bird’s first cries.
He’d never feel the gentle rain, that falls from summer skies.
He’d never know the wondrous store of knowledge life could teach.
He gave his young life long before it came within his reach.
His mother heart would surely break, who would console her grief?
What balm was there to ease the pain, for one who’s life was brief?
What enemy was there to blame, and who would keep the score.
Of losses in this deadly game. This devils madness War?
But I am old, and think I know, how futile war can be.
The young must learn, they can’t be told: - There is no Victory.

But he listened to his countries politicians.

Answer 7

As a Christian, you're actually not a occasion to the previous covenant. Regardless, that commandment has to do with an act of hatred; homicide. Killing in conflict isn't a contravention of this commandment. A soldier's destiny is comparable to all people's, and is predicated upon faith in God/Christ, and not the previous covenant regulation. Salvation grew to become into in no way linked with the previous covenant regulation. All that regulation would desire to do grew to become into condemn the regulation breaker. The regulation would desire to not make all people righteous. look to the occasion of Naaman in II Kings financial ruin 5. enable his occasion be your instruction manual. .

Answer 8

Soldiers dont go to heaven or hell, they just regroup for a counter attack.

Seriosuly though, Dellow is a cynical non-believer it would appear. When anybody dies, they go into the Spirit world. What you experience there, depends on the beliefs you held here so, if HE believed he was 'good' enough to 'enter heaven', he will.

Answer 9

Not all soldiers kill! Some are peace keepers, so they must be heaven bound?
Those who kill are often forced in to it, kill or be killed, or to protect others.
Surely then these killers should be forgiven?

Lets hope before any of this, they come home first!

Bring them back Blair!

Answer 10

It depends on the soldier.