A Christian is bitten by a Vampire. The Christian still has the same religious belief and believes in being "saved by Jesus." There is no book or evidence that I can find in fiction or Non-fiction that states a person loses their religious beliefs or protections when bitten by a vampire. Therefore. the cross and holy water bit has to be what is called Artistic License to allow for a weapon or a twist to a book or movie to bring it to a climax.
A Christian Vampire that did not take life would be committing no designated sin. Therefore there could be (if you think they are real) Vampires in heaven.
2007-09-01 10:16:00 · 9 answers · asked by Terry 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
I believe there exists demented, delusional, human individuals, with the belief that they are vampires. This includes both male and female delusional. I also accept that not a few of these out of reality indulge in ritualistic behavior for accessing a source of human blood. Now then: A vampire bite is not believed to be a cause of the death of the victim. It is believed the bite will result in infecting the nutritional donor with the disease of "vampire-ism". It is a behavior I find no less disgusting than the ritualistic partaking of human flesh. So, a "christian" vampire has created no "sin."
2007-09-01 10:47:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Alrighty then... some interesting answers. However, I'd like to take a stab at this, no pun intended. ;)
First of all, you can't look at the "Hollywood" version of Vampires. Yes, a vampire can still retain it's religious beliefs but perhaps over a period of time, say a hundred years or so, the religious views will change if Jesus doesn't "save" them in their mind.
The cross and holy water don't work on vampires, only demons. Vampires die by decapitating them, plain and simple. The stake to the chest, whether it be wood or metal, only paralyzes. Sunlight would kill, but you'd have to paralyze the vampire to make sure the sunlight turns their bones to dust.
Garlic does nothing but spice up tomato sauce for Italian cooking. Holy water gives them something to drink and a cross just gives them something to turn around and stab you with, should they so desire.
I see what you are saying here though. By refraining from the instinctual needs of a vampire, the person would not commit a sin. Therefore it is quite possible they would go to heaven if they refrain from other sins as well or at least ask for absolution for the ones they did commit. Taking a life, though, is something you just don't do in the eyes of God unless of course it is an animal and you are trying to survive. Vampires could live on rats and small animals if it came down to it. But taking the life of a fellow human being would be unforgiveable in the eyes of God. If killing animals to survive was equal, we're all doomed.
2007-09-01 22:19:58 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good point but then you also have to look at how someone is made into a vampire. For instance with Anne Rice it's a knowledgeable and conscious acceptance after being bitten. If you do not drink vampiric blood after being bitten you simply die. In another book and movie you have to bite the vampire and drink his blood but not be bitten. Then there's the quandary where, if you turn into one after just being bitten, will you die if you don't drink blood or go into a blood lust like Dracula and have no control over yourself a little like rabies. You just go nuts and bite whatever you see. Could that be considered a sin? In another book I've read vampires were created because of the first murder. Cain killing Abel. Cain was the first and was the epitomy of sin so just by association could you be guilty of sin? I would say you would have to take your own life in order to never go into blood lust and therefore feed on an innocent but if you took your own life according to the bible that is sinful. SOOO my conclusion there will not be vampires in heaven 1 because they don't exist and 2 because if they did exist no matter how they got there they would have committed some sin.
2007-09-01 10:27:24 · answer #3 · answered by Frenchghost 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
What is with the concept of exclusive heaven? We are all creations of God...and I'm not just talking people here. Every thing you see and everything you don't in this material [physically realized] world is of God. He/She made us and all the rest. When we pass, we move to a place we will discover when we arrive.
2007-09-01 15:17:19 · answer #4 · answered by gldnsilnc 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So far, there haven't been any vampires around...well not to my knowledge..but I understand what you're saying.
But from what I've learned about vampires, they're all immortal, so it would be impossible for a vampire to be in heaven OR hell, since they'd never die.
2007-09-01 10:28:08 · answer #5 · answered by Obama! twist™ 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Considering "Jesus" & "vampires" are both mere superstitions, I don't see a paradox here.
2007-09-01 15:42:12 · answer #6 · answered by kyralan 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
a vampire bites.
so there is no christian vampire, and no place for such a vampire in heaven.
2007-09-01 10:58:31 · answer #7 · answered by Moonrise 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I like that idea, maybe there could be
2007-09-01 10:29:32 · answer #8 · answered by Wondering 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i dont think thats a paradox
2007-09-01 10:24:28 · answer #9 · answered by cjohnson2492 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋