Hebrews 11:32 states that Samson was a man of faith (a saved person). However, he played around with prostitutes during his lifetime. Isn't there something wrong here? Can a whoremonger who professes faith in Christ still be saved?
2007-08-02 12:31:04 · 13 answers · asked by helper725 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No body is perfect except for Jesus . We all fall short of the glory of God . That is why we need to ask God for forgiveness and guidance in our lives . David had his lovers husband left behind in war to get killed so he could have her . But , he paid a price for it God took away their child. Believers get chastised by God when we fall astray .
2007-08-02 12:38:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, Samson was still Saved.
King David was a Murderer and an Adulterer.
King David is in Heaven.
Now a Days, our spirits get Recreated when we Accept Jesus as our Saviour, Believing Who HE Said HE was.
The Only Way to Lose that Recreated spirit (become Un-Saved) Again is to Commit the Unpardonable Sin.
The Unpardonable Sin is Not: murder, fornication, drugs and drunkeness, adultery, lying, stealing, cheating so on...
The Unpardonable Sin is hard to commit, it takes time and Very Few Christians commit it, but it has happened.
I know what your Thinking, the adulterer and drunkard so on, will not INHEIRIT the Kingdom of GOD.
What we must do, is Study to Show ourselves Approved and Find out what:
Inheiriting the Kingdom of GOD means!!!
You see, after you are Born-Again, you are Translated INTO the Kingdom of GOD and are on your Way to Heaven.
But, being Translated into the Kingdom of GOD (Saved) IS NOT the same thing as Inheiriting the Kindom of GOD, After you are Saved.
Hope this helps.
2007-08-02 12:46:50 · answer #2 · answered by maguyver727 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ah!!!!!!!! he was captured? he was rejected by God.
it wasn't the cutting of his hair but his disrespect for God's laws. Genesis 38:6 Was Judah who went to what he thought was a prostitute. It was his daugher-in-law; Tamar. When she got pregnant he said Burn her up. what a hyprocrit.
then she showed his signet ring and said the man owns this ring. IT was his ring and he felt guilty and let her live.
People did bad things but they usually got caught.
Men have always done things God didn't approve of.
But he realized they were only dust and tried to forgive them.
Samson in the end was like Judah sorry for what they did and we can be forgiven to when we make a mistake.
Just think how would you feel if 6000 years later every generation of people read everything you did in your life?
Isn't that punishment enough?
2007-08-02 12:39:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-11 01:39:22 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Samson did go to the home of a prostitute in the Philistine city of Gaza. Hearing of this, the Philistines laid in wait for him with the intent to kill him in the morning. But at midnight Samson got up and ripped the city gate and side posts, carrying them “up to the top of the mountain that is in front of Hebron.” (Jg 16:1-3) This was a great humiliation for the Philistines, because it left Gaza unprotected from intruders.
The fact that Samson was able to do this indicates that he still had God’s spirit. This would argue against his having gone to the house of the prostitute for immoral purposes.
Note Lange’s Commentary on the Holy Scriptures (Jg 16:1, p. 212),: Commentator Paulus Cassel says on this point: “Samson did not come to Gaza for the purpose of visiting a harlot: for it is said that ‘he went, thither, and saw there a [prostitute].’ But when he wished to remain there [at Gaza] over night, there was nothing for him, the national enemy, but to abide with the [prostitute]. . . . His stay is spoken of in language not different from that employed with reference to the abode of the spies in the house of Rahab. The words, ‘he saw her,’ only indicate that when he saw a woman of her class, he knew where he could find shelter for the night.” (Translated and edited by P. Schaff, 1976)
No basis upon which to contend that Samson actually lay with a prostitute.
Hannah J Paul
2007-08-02 12:33:12 · answer #5 · answered by Hannah J Paul 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Samson loved a Palestinian princess named Delila from the Gaza city-state. She was not prostitute she was truly a Palestinian patriotic lady who sided with her people against a nomadic lover.
2007-08-02 12:39:29 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes. where was samson when jesus was alive? In the grave/hell/hades. was messiah on earth yet to offer salvation? nope.
in 1 peter. whom did Jesus "set the captives free who were in prison"???? all those who died BEFORE his advent and had no chance at salvation. Was Samson smart enough to recognize messiah? Yes. Did samson cross over the gulf to salvation when presented with it by Christ? Yes. Whoremongers can repent like anyone else. It's the NON repenting that does not allow salvation. Accepting your a maggot sinner AND repenting counts.
also prostitutes have their place in the world as well. I think it was the prophet hosea that God told him to marry a prostitute. Only one unforgivable sin and lusting after hoochies ain't it.
2007-08-02 12:34:01 · answer #7 · answered by pissdownsatansback 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Of course he can be saved -- he was a sinner, just like the rest of humankind. God knows that we are sinners, he does not condemn us for every single sin we commit, no matter how big or small.
2007-08-02 12:34:33 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Prostitution is not grounds for being sent to the lake of fire
2007-08-02 12:33:43 · answer #9 · answered by Maurice H 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, as long as he expressed a belief in God, confessed his sins and ask for forgiveness. Pops
2007-08-02 12:37:41 · answer #10 · answered by Pops 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋