Will it ever be too late to accept Christ....?

Question

A priest once told me, you would be pardon of your sin once you accept Christ and ask for forgiveness..

The question is, if I go and kill my enemy that immediately proceed to a Church and ask Christ for forgiveness, will Christ reject me?

If not, then I can go on committing sins after sins and immediately follow up with a dose of confession and ask for forgiveness and perpetually be sin free. I'll still get a one way ticket to Heaven.

Thanks for the tip hesjim57,
now I know that if I want to kill someone, I would have to bring them to the Church to do it and then I can ask for forgiveness there and then without having to face the risk of getting kill in a road accident.

Answer 1

no

Answer 2

Accepting Christ Jesus changes a person. Although we as Christians do still sin (we are, after all, human), it is against God's nature to do so. Someone who has accepted Jesus as Lord and Savior is a transformed being. As a Christian, you start on a journey that brings you closer and closer to God. This journey changes the very core of your being. You want to do the right thing, not for reward, not for salvation, but simply because it is the right thing to do. A person running around sinning then repeatedly asking for forgiveness is not evidencing any change - I would question the sincerity of that person. Every time I sin, I know the pain I cause my Lord and Savior. I would not cause Him any more suffering, therefore when I sin, I am 'convicted' and I turn away from that sin. It's not a 'get out of jail free' card - it's a life altering change that causes those who love the Lord to come to Him in prayer and with repentance.

Answer 3

Confession only counts if you mean it and you fully intend to not do it again. Otherwise, you're wasting your time. Also, acceptance of Christ means that you fully put your trust in Him and have decided that you want to do what He wills you to do. So in the perceived spirit of your question... no, you're screwed. Also, what if you die before you've had a chance to ask for forgiveness? We usually don't get to pick the time of our death.

Oh, by the way, the Bible says to skip the priest - confess your sins directly to God. Catholics practice a non-Biblical belief in this area. At the moment of Christ's death, the 6" thick curtain that protected the "holy of holies" (the area that only priests could enter) was torn from the top to the bottom. The direction is important because it indicates that God himself was negating the need for a priest to be the only one to enter the presence of God. If you're relying only on what a priest told you, then you're putting your faith in a guy - read the Bible for yourself.

Answer 4

Is it ever too late? NO except the fact that you have no idea when your time will be up. Using your example of killing someone then immediately proceeding to church to ask Christ for forgiveness. Let me ask you this, what happens if on the way to church to ask for forgiveness you get killed in a car accident?

Proverbs 1:24-28
24 But since you rejected me when I called
and no one gave heed when I stretched out my hand,
25 since you ignored all my advice
and would not accept my rebuke,
26 I in turn will laugh at your disaster;
I will mock when calamity overtakes you-
27 when calamity overtakes you like a storm,
when disaster sweeps over you like a whirlwind,
when distress and trouble overwhelm you.
28 "Then they will call to me but I will not answer;
they will look for me but will not find me.

We never know when our time will be up, so I plead with you to accept Christ now! God Bless

Answer 5

Good question. But I think if you plan on committing a sin with the idea that you can get forgiveness right off the bat your sadly mistaken. You see, that wouldn't be sincere. Only God knows your heart. At some point when you do feel true remorse for what you've done I believe God will know you are indeed sincere and will forgive you.

Answer 6

You ask for forgiveness, which means that you must also repent and promise never to do it again. If you have no conscience, it doesn't really matter what you do, does it? if you do have a conscience, then it's not really possible to kill and chew gum at the same time, with not a care in the world. There is also the concept of purgatory to consider. With all those nasty doings, you may have to spend a few thousand years in there before reaching Heaven....

Answer 7

as you describe you premeditate that you can commit murder and go to confession and the confessor will forgive you as such. Sketchy, you have not made a true confession.
If you kill someone in a crime of passion or accidentally realize what you have done wrong and go and ask for forgiveness because you are sorry that you have hurt god you may have better luck but since i am not the judge i shouldn't begin to answer what is not mine to speak of.

Answer 8

"It's not too late" means once you have life you have a chance to accept Jesus because the dead cannot do that. If you have the knowledge of sin and continue to do it you will be punish severely. Luke 12:47 "....they that know the Lord's will and do it not shall be beaten with many stripes."

Answer 9

It is never too late to accept Christ...I have been Christian (pentecostal) all my life...and im loving it...but if u want to accept Christ, it has to come from your heart, don't listen to anyone but yourself when it comes to this decision...He's the only one who can change you...Read John 3:16 and John 3:17..they can help you....God loves you and wants you and anyone else to be saved for when the time comes for him to pick up his church...and for those who despise him, I say good luck....

Answer 10

Not that easy,God judges your heart,if you go around killing people and ask for forgiveness,you are not truly sorry for what you have done,if you are truly sorry and repent of your ways and turn your back on sin then yes he will forgive you

Answer 11

I'm not sure about Christians but in Buddhism, we have a saying that goes "What you reap is what you sow".No matter how much or how little and how serious or how light your sin is, you will still have to pay back for what you have done.