If i killed people through my life and was evil all the time, and on judgement day, Jesus says "Are you truely sorry" OBVIOUSLY i will be when i know if im not i will go to hell for eternal punishment
2007-04-08 13:16:35 · 14 answers · asked by john c 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes.
God is a God of mercy. Thank God!
Most of us would be in trouble if we got what we deserved.
Catholics believe that if you truly repent for your sins prior to your death then you will be forgiven.
Repentance, or contrition, is sorrow of the soul and hatred for the sin committed, together with a resolution not to sin again. Contrition is the most important act of the penitent, and is necessary for forgiveness
Here is a common Catholic prayer of Contrition:
My God,
I am sorry for my sins with all my heart.
In choosing to do wrong
And failing to do good,
I have sinned against you
whom I should love above all things.
I firmly intend, with your help,
to do penance,
to sin no more,
and to avoid whatever leads me to sin.
Amen.
With love in Christ.
2007-04-08 17:36:23 · answer #1 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You have time to repent only when you are alive. If you die in mortal sin you will go to hell. You may be sorry for all the lost opportunities for grace that you threw away while you were alive, but you wont have a chance to make up for it. On Judgement day God will sift the wheat from the husk and the unrepentant sinner who died in mortal sin will be among the husk.
If you were unrepentant while alive there is little chance you will be repentant after death. You will curse the fact that you will never ever see the Face of God for all eternity and all the cursing and bewailing will be useless.
Use the short time you have been given on earth to avail of the sources of grace----regular mass, at least monthly confession, daily Rosary (at least five decades), wearing the Brown scapular of Carmel .......The reason Our Lord gave us the Catholic church was to save us from the terrible eternal fires of hell and the eternal loss of God.
2007-04-10 02:49:37 · answer #2 · answered by Pat 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no Judgement Day or Hell. If you killed people all your life, you'd be a miserable excuse for a human being no matter how sorry you became at the end of your life.
VLR
2007-04-08 17:45:58 · answer #3 · answered by VLR 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God's capacity for forgiveness is greater than man's capacity for sin. If you truly repent for your sins, you will be forgiven.
HOWEVER, God is not to be taken for a fool. He knows, darn well I might add, that everyone who sees Him on the Day of Judgement will repent of their sins and kneel to Him. However, the Bible speaks of Jesus teaching, "Not everyone who says, 'Lord, Lord' will enter the Kingdom of Heaven."
Judgement Day, assuming you are here to witness it, is a day when you will be rewarded for past devotion to God. Or, you will have condemned yourself for lack of devotion.
One should not be in a state of fear in the Coming of the Lord. One must be in a state of readiness. Sinners must have already repented for their wrong-doings of the past when Jesus Comes.
The Bible says as much:
Matt. 24:36 - many sects try to predict the coming of Christ. But Jesus says, "no one but the Father knows the day and the hour." The sects that try to predict Christ's coming ignore these words.
Matt. 24:36 - we should also note that Jesus’ statement does not mean than Jesus does not know the day of His Second Coming. Jesus does know, because He is God. With this statement, Jesus explains that He chose to know by His human knowledge only that which He wanted to know for His mission of salvation. In other words, Jesus could have chosen not to know everything by His own human knowledge, but Jesus knew everything in His human knowledge through its hypostatic union to His eternal and infinite divine knowledge.
Matt. 24:44 – Jesus warns us that the Son of Man is coming at an hour we do not expect.
Matt. 25:13 – Jesus says “watch therefore, and be prepared, for you know neither the day nor the hour.”
Mark 13:35-37 – Jesus says “watch because you do not know when the Master of the House will come - watch!”
Luke 12:46 - the Master will come on a day and at an hour when He is not expected.
Acts 1:7 - Jesus says it is not for us to know the times or seasons which the Father has fixed by His own authority.
1 Thess. 5:2; 2 Peter 3:10; Rev. 3:3 - the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.
James 5:7 - be patient until the coming of the Lord. Those who try to predict disregard this inspired teaching.
Rev. 22:20 - Jesus says He is coming soon, but He does not tell us when He is coming. Because Jesus says we do not know the day or the hour and will be surprised at His coming, it is silly, and disobedient, for people and groups to predict His coming. We, instead, need to be about the business of growing in holiness, so that we are prepared for our Lord when He comes again, no matter when that will be.
Conventional wisdom states that one best live each day as if it is the their last one. We know neither when the Day of Judgement will arrive, nor the day of our earthly death.
One day, one way or another, it will be that last day. The truly wise will make their peace with God before their last day.
2007-04-12 04:30:32 · answer #4 · answered by Daver 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Brother,
Just remember that the Lord knows what is truly in your heart. There is an enormous difference between saying you are sorry because you fear punishment and saying you are sorry because you feel sorrow. The Lord knows your heart better than you do. If Christ is in your heart and you think with your heart and you cannot fail. If you do not invite Christ into you heart, you cannot have eternal life with Him.
Think of the man who was crucified with Christ who asked the Lord to think of him when He enter His kingdom. The Lord said what? He said "I assure you, you will be with Me in paradise today."
God bless,
Tony
2007-04-08 13:56:01 · answer #5 · answered by Tony 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-18 00:04:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God can only judge a persons heart. But if you live your life away from God your whole life and try to await judgement day, it will be too late. Why because you have rejected God your whole life and just as you have rejected Him, He may just reject you also.
2007-04-08 13:21:09 · answer #7 · answered by tebone0315 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Truly sorry means you really mean it, not because you afraid that you will go to hell thus you "truly sorry" but because you know that you've done wrong and you will do good from now on.
2007-04-08 13:23:16 · answer #8 · answered by ranselbiru 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
...who has been teaching you...? the alter boys...? Judgment of God is determined by the condition of your spirit before you stand in His presence... If you find yourself standing in-front of God without the protection of forgiveness (which is available on "this side of eternity")...be worried, be very worried... It is our spiritual duty to repent of sin and ask and receive forgiveness... God cannot look upon sin... (It's in The Book...read all about it)...
2007-04-08 13:24:52 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, that is up to between you and god. We are same as you, guilty of being a human. We can not make a decision.
2007-04-08 13:20:15 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋