If you die with one unrepented sin (no matter what it is) will you go to Hell forever?

Answer 1

Well I always heard that sin is separation from God so,I would think so.

Answer 2

Scripture says, "If we walk in the light as He is in the light, we are cleansed of our sins." The Hebrew for the word that is translated "cleansed" indicates an ongoing continual type cleansing. I think that is where many do not understand the true concept of grace, sin, and forgiveness. Because of our lack of a good translation of this word many have come to believe that one must repent of each and every individual sin. If one dies,then, before one has a chance to repent Hell is the result.

If we look at the meaning of the Hebrew word, though, we get a much better understanding. "Walking in the light" is a way of life. It is a mind set. Read the book of Romans (I think chapters 6-8) and look at the concept of the mind "set on the spirit". Having a mind set on the spirit does not mean being sinless. It means having your focus and lifestyle oriented toward submission to God. One who has their mind "set on the Spirit" will most surely sin throughout life due to human weakness. But that Christian, upon stumbling and falling, will pick themsleves back up dust themselves off and continue to walk toward the goal.

That is the wonderful thing about grace. We are not like yo-yo's. Constantly jumping in and out of grace. Grace is extended to us because we are walking in the light, having our mind set on the Spirit, sinning occasionally all the way to heaven (although we are trying our best to conquer sin in our lives).

So the real question is not "If youdie with one unrepented sin will you go to Hell forever" The question is, "Are you walking in the light as He is in the light. Do you have your mind set on the Spirit". If you answer yes to these questions then NO one unrepepnted sin will not send you to Hell.

Answer 3

If you ask Jesus into your heart and you were able to lose that salvation by commiting one sin. Than Jesus's death on the cross wouldn't have been necassary because man has sin nature and there is no way that man can be sin free ever, it's not possible. And if the later were true you would go to hell nomatter what. That is why Jesus died for us. There is a book called Eternal Security by Charles Stanley. It will answer any questions you might have.

Answer 4

I believe that Hell is the state of being in complete separation from and absense of God. The only way to get there is to put yourself there by 100% turning your back on God (in any form/name/understanding), even at death.

So to answer your question, I guess it would have depend on the sin. Since I right now I can't think of one sin that would so greatly unbalance an otherwise good life, I would say the answer is no.

Answer 5

Assuming you accepted Christ as your savior.. no.

Other notes on the other answers.

- Our righteousness is as rags so it doesn't cancel out sin. (If you murder someone, it doesn't matter how much good you do, you can still legally be called a murder. I.E. you can't undo being a murderer).
- Sinning in one way is as bad as sinning any other way, the law is still broken. (The penalty for this pride that you choose your way over God's is death, because in choosing sin you are not choosing life).
- Because of God's love He must punish sin. (E.G. If I had the power to punish someone after they robbed a person, but I let it slide, that shows that I don't really love the victim). Hence Hell (eternal separation from God).

- If I had a fine to pay, and someone paid it on my behalf, the courts would be satisfied. They wouldn't come after me personally. By the same token, Christ (who didn't sin - so didn't have to die to pay for His own sins), died to pay for our sins. To actually apply that payment to our lives we need to accept that Christ paid the penalty for us. ('Father I accept that Christ died for me and paid for my sins').

- After the above step, when God looks at you, He doesn't see your sin (past, present, future), He sees Christ's spotless record. Christ's righteousness has become your righteousness.

-Some Christian's will say this gives license to sin, but look around, do people really need license? They are sinning anyway! He who is forgiven much, loves much.

Answer 6

We don't even KNOW all the sins that we have done in our lifetime.

Jesus died to make you righteous. So you are accounted righteous by faith.

Rom 4:5-8
6 David says the same thing when he speaks of the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:

7 "Blessed are they
whose transgressions are forgiven,
whose sins are covered.
8 Blessed is the man
whose sin the Lord will never count against him."
(from New International Version)

If you are talking about a sin known to you and are SURE that God has said that it is a sin, then beware. Not that God wouldn't forgive, but that you guilt feelings will drive you from God and make you doubt His forgiveness of you.

The devil will always use your conscience to make you feel "unloveable" by God and run from God as did Adam and Eve in the garden.

Answer 7

First, what is 'repentance'? OK so you have a sin. Did Jesus Christ die for it as your substitute? Do you feel you have to DO something in addition to your faith in Him? Add works to His Limitless Grace and cancel it out? There is only one sin that gets you to hell, bro. Now listen up everybody and listen good: it is the sin of not believing Jesus Christ as your saviour. Just admit to it, own up to it, that is what confession is, Not crying tears of repentance: leave that to Esau.

Answer 8

I believe it depends on how serious the sin was such as murder, sexual abuse, etc. I believe that God will forgive those who have made an honest attempt to live righteously before him most of their life, depending on how long they had a relationship with God even though they had not have the opportunity to repent properly before dieing.

Answer 9

Only if it is the unforgivable sin.

But God in his mercy and justice has provided a way for us to be purified before entering heaven.

It was the common practice of the Jews to pray for the dead for this reason. (and still do to this day) They did not call it purgatory, but that is where the essense of the doctrine came from, the Jews, who got it from God.

Purgatory is not about paying the penalty of sin. Jesus on the Cross pays the penalty of our sin -- which is death. Those in purgatory are not in spiritual death; they are all headed to heaven.

Purgatory pays for the "consequences" of our sin, not for the sin itself.

For example, if I throw a rock through your window I have committed a sin. I can become sorry for my sin . Jesus paid the price for my sin. But......... the window is STILL broken. The broken window is the "consequence" of my sin and it still needs to be repaired. The Cross does not repair the window, that is my responsibility.

Thus, one of the aspects of purgatory is to pay for all the broken windows in our life that we did not get around to paying for during our life on earth.

As to why Purgatory? Because God loves us so much, He has provided a way for us to be purified after we die. We cannot enter heaven unless we are perfected and totally holy. While we may die in a state of grace most of us are probably not perfect. Purgatory is a place of perfection. It purges the imperfections from us 'til what is left is pure gold.

1 Corinthians 3:12-15 is a great definition of Purgatory:

12 Now if any one builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw-- 13 each man's work will become manifest; for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. 14 If the work which any man has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward. 15 If any man's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.

In otherwords, how well we lived our lives as Christians will be judged, the good works and not-so-good works will be judge. The not-so-good works are the wood, hay, and straw that will burn up in the purging. The good works are the gold, silver, and precious stone that will survive the purging.

We cannot enter heaven with works that can be consumed. We must enter heaven only with works to our credit that can survive the fire. Thus God, who loves us so, provides a way for us to rid ourselves of the wood, hay, and straw in our lives so that we can enter heaven perfect and holy.

Again, this is NOT about purging sin, it is about purging the consequences of sin (paying for the broken windows) and about purging our imperfections in living the Christ-life.

Some Protestants call this the "Judgment Seat of Christ". Our salvation is not being judged here, rather how well we lived our life for Christ is being judged. While some Evangelicals refer to this as Judgment Seat of Christ and Catholics call it Purgatory, it is the same thing.

Answer 10

There is no hell.

1 Tim 2:3-4: "God our savior... wills everyone to be saved and to come to knowledge of the truth"

Psalm 135:6: "Whatever the LORD wishes he does in heaven and on earth"

He wishes that all be saved. Whatever he wishes comes to pass. Therefore all will be saved. QED.