Without provocation a Nazi kills a Jew.Post WW11 he devotes his life to Christ.The Nazi dies. Who's in heaven?

Answer 1

The Jew.

Answer 2

There should be an animated movie like "All Dogs Go To Heaven"
except it's "No Jew Goes To Heaven"

I don't think God is an equal-opportunity employer, unfortunately.

Nothing against Jews... I'm not religious, but isn't there some clause in the new testament that makes believing in God, Jesus, the Holy spirit a necessary condition for acceptance into the afterlife...? I think there is. You Christians are all dodging the question a tad too much. I know when you think you're right you quote 15 pages worth of text-- but not today eh?

Answer 3

mockingly, the Nazi will be in Heaven. yet you should bear in mind, he received't be a Nazi even as he enters Heaven! If the Jew rejected Christ, then he's in a worse state than a tremendous sinner who time-honored Christ and became his existence round. What, are you afraid he will have a relapse? Christ Himself reported that "the first will be very last, and the most suitable will be first." i imagine there'll be people we may have envisioned to make sure in Heaven who isn't there, and there'll be the most suitable people shall we anticipate in Heaven will be there.

Answer 4

What an offensive question. How does devoting his life to a religion that sanctions anti-Semitism (despite the fact that its founding prophet was born and raised Jewish) in any way count against his act of murder? As an ethical conundrum, this lacks ethics. As a theological question, it shows the poisonous close-mindedness of any religion that believes in a "saved" elite. To show true penance, the Nazi should have devoted his life to truth, to reparations, to forcing the Church to confront and apologise for its role not only in the Nazi genocide but in two millennia of anti-semitism, and to restoring community bonds, not to an abstract notion.

If you rephrase the question, "a human being kills another human being, etc" obviously it's less emotive. Nazism was a set of political beliefs that held that all murder of Jews and other undesirable peoples was, in fact, provoked by the need to preserve the homeland. So your question also fails to understand historical circumstances, as well as muddying theological waters.

Incidentally, there is no such thing as an ethnic Jew. A Jew is someone born into the Jewish faith, who may be secular or practising. If someone converts, they are no longer considered a Jew. Also, Jews do not believe in heaven in the same way that Christians do.

Answer 5

Well the nazi certainly, and the Jew? I'm sure he has been there quite a while. There are many pathways to God!

Answer 6

Read the story of Saul in the bible. he persecuted and killed jews, then turned around and became paul, who wrote half the new testament.

Answer 7

God knows and he don't gossip. You are the life of the body,you lived before you had this body and you will live after it is gone,Your destiny is in your own hands, according to your own karma,(cause & effect) and your thinking. In the end we all merge back from whence we came. As a raindrop merges into the ocean. NONE WILL BE LOST.Some may have to be fired to a high heat to burn away the dross,but they are all pure Gold.

Answer 8

The Jew, as he was an ethnic Jew, but could have been of any "religion" might or might not be. The Nazi is because he realized what he did was wrong and was forgiven for it.

Answer 9

Both.

The explaination is in the question

Answer 10

Provided the ex-Nazi perseveres in his following of Christ, and is in the state of grace at death, he goes to heaven.

If the Jew is in the state of grace at death, having loved God and neighbor with the light that he has been given in his life, he goes to heaven too.

So both would be there, if they both had sanctifying grace in their souls (which is God's own life in the soul, without which no one can go to heaven).




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Answer 11

Uh huh