If Paul could go from being a persecutor of Christians to a Saint?

Question

Then don't you christians think that maybe you should stop SAYING that all of us nonbelievers are going to hell? We may have a change of heart and become saints someday, don't you think?

Answer 1

Paul was chosen before the overthrow of the 1st Earth Age.
His Freewill was to persecute Christains, until he was struck down.

Answer 2

anyone can change at any time if they choose to.

No one knows who is going to heaven and to hell except God. We can look at the signs and get a good idea that someone may be on the wrong track. For instance, Jesus said the only way to the Father is through Him.

That would mean that those who don't believe in him and have not repented and been baptized(Acts2:38) in his name for the forgiveness of sins would likely not be going to heaven. God is the judge and he sets the time tables.

God does want christians to warn people though. In Gal 5:19 Paul lists a host of sins including sexual immorality, impurity, drunkenness, idolatry, orgies, hatred, envy, jealousy, etc... and says that those who live like this WILL NOT inhereit the kingdom of God.

So anyways, only God knows each persons outcome, but there are signs as to which road someone is currently on. To not try to lovingly help someone get on the right road would not be christian-like.

Answer 3

Do you actually read lots of posts like that? I seem to hear lots of talk about how we always say that, but rarely do I see that actually being said. Believers have no authority to judge anyone outside of the church.

1 Cor 5:
9I have written you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people— 10not at all meaning the people of this world who are immoral, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world. 11But now I am writing you that you must not associate with anyone who calls himself a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a slanderer, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat.

12What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside? 13God will judge those outside. "Expel the wicked man from among you."[b]

Answer 4

St. Paul's heart was always zealous for God. Do the same and Our Lord will also reveal Himself to you.

God can save anyone. The disposition of your Soul at the moment of death determines your eternal fate. If in a state of Grace, you will be saved.
Jin Ju

Answer 5

You even left out that Paul became a Saint because he said so.

If I were on the way to Checkers, and made the same claim............current organized religions would say the same thing.

Only "New" religious come out of insane claims....at the time, Christiantiy was one of them.

Answer 6

John 14:6 (New International Version)
New International Version (NIV)

6Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Answer 7

He grew to become right into a Roman Jew who certainly persecuted Christians yet later grew to become the apostle to the gentiles (non-Jews). he's often talked approximately for his epistles, or letters, that characterize a solid element of the hot testomony.

Answer 8

Heck yes, I agree. But don't wait too long. You never know when you will take your last breath or when the Lord will return.

Answer 9

You have to CHANGE YOUR WAYS to put yourself in the same category as Paul.

Answer 10

I don't need to change.
If god is there, I'll stand up on my own two feet and own everything I've done in life.
Then I'll have some questions of my own.