Just say a person has been a faithful Christian for 30 years and then one day suffers from incurable dementia and forgets all about God. Is that considered apostasy? Will that person go to hell? Only Christians answer please.
2007-07-22 19:28:41 · 21 answers · asked by helper725 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Never would happen. His or her spirit is alive even though his brain isn't functioning properly.
2007-07-22 19:33:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
To the main question, I see there is much that people don't know about what the Bible teaches about knowing or having knowledge of the existence of God.
I remember a case when a woman recieved an organ transplant from a man who had died. She never had any interest in sports. Then she mysteriously started rooting for a particular sports team not even in the state she lives in, it turns out the organ doner was obsessed with that team. There are similar cases, when someone recieves a transplant and develops a kind of craving for something. But the sports thing is knowledge based. Some scientists thereby believe knowledge can be also stored in our bodies.
Scripture teaches that knowledge of God is also written in the hearts of every person so that we are without excuse. I am convinced that those who say God does not exist are lying, and scripture says that they are fools.
2007-07-22 19:37:33 · answer #2 · answered by David L 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I doubt it.
The bad psychological material is not a sin but a disease. It does not need to be repented of, but to be cured. And by the way, that is very important. Human beings judge each other by their external actions. God judges them by their moral choices.
When a man who has been perverted from his youth and taught that cruelty is the right thing, does some tiny little kindness, or refrains from some cruelty he might have committed and thereby, perhaps, risks being sneered at by his companions, he may, in God’s eyes, be doing more than you and I would do if we gave up life itself for a friend.
It is well to put this the other way round.
Some of us who seem quite nice people may, in fact, have made so little use of a good heredity and a good upbringing that we are really worse than those whom we regard as fiends. Can we be quite certain how we should have behaved if we had been saddled with the psychological outfit, and then with the bad upbringing and then with the power say, of Himmler? That is why Christians are told not to judge. We see only the results which a man’s choices make out of his raw material. But God does not judge him on what he is given at all, but on what he has done with it. Most of the man’s psychological make-up is probably due to his body. When his body dies all that will fall off him, and the real central man, the thing that chose, that made the best or worst out of his material will stand naked.
All sorts of nice things which we thought our own, but which were really due to a good digestion, will fall off some of us: all sorts of nasty things which were due to complexes or bad health will fall off others. We shall then see, for the first time, see everyone as he really was. There will be surprises.
2007-07-22 19:31:49 · answer #3 · answered by Mrs. Eric Cartman 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
When a question says, "only Christians answer please", I feel frustrated. I was a nurse and worked with geriatric patients suffering dementia for many years. They forgot many things and people, including their own children. But with these patients I noted that most of them retained an understanding of God....sorry to answer a question that you wanted only Christians to answer but I couldn't help it. Alzheimers patients were the most forgetful in my experience. They forgot lots of people and things....but ask them about God and they were suddenly right there with you. Amazing, isn't it! I loved these patients and have never forgotten the lessons they taught me. One being that we can't really forget God because He/She is inside us in such a fundamental way.------Blessings!
2007-07-22 19:56:20 · answer #4 · answered by Native Spirit 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dementia will not allow man to remember many things.
"Wisdom" if allowed to develop in man, will not allow the one known as almighty God to be forgotten.
Moral of this story is to acquire "Wisdom".
In either case God is the one that oversees, Final Judgment and decides as to where the soul of man sojourns to from that point forward.
2007-07-22 19:54:12 · answer #5 · answered by WillRogerswannabe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, not at all. To a Christian the promise of eternal life (John 3:16) is irrevocable.
2007-07-22 19:34:12 · answer #6 · answered by cheir 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God knows what's in your heart. He is a loving caring God. He also knows with age the body deteriorates. If you heart has been right with God throughout your life, I have faith that God will still take you into eternity with him.
2007-07-22 19:33:18 · answer #7 · answered by Matt 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I dont believe they would go to hell because God knows our hearts, if the person truly loved and dedicated themselves to Jesus God knows their heart not that they are sick
2007-07-22 19:32:36 · answer #8 · answered by Chibi 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
SHE IS ALREADY A CHRISTIAN......and if a person like a young child or someone not in control of their mental ability ,they want be held responsible
2007-07-22 19:38:52 · answer #9 · answered by purpleaura1 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Christian friends are already suffering dementia and forgot what Jesus said "The Lord our God, the Lord is ONE". They have made three out of one, and one out of three. Did anytime he speak except the ONE.
2007-07-22 19:36:14 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋