"When you accept Jesus Christ as your Savior you are a Christian and you are going to heaven, whether you...

Question

...want to or not afterwards."

Is this true? I heard this from a Christian. On here.

Answer 1

When you accept Jesus Christ, and are born again of the Spirit, you are going to heaven, AND, you want to.

Answer 2

you are getting a lot of answers on here, but this is the bottom line,
if you honestly accepted Jesus as your savior, you will change. You will be miserable without working on your relationship as the lifeline you had with the world is cut. You have only the spiritual food from Christ.

you might regret lots of things, but once the contract is made, you are sealed with the Holy Spirit, guaranteeing what was offered.

I will tell you that if that happened, you would be greatful to be saved, ashamed for your failing the LORD.

I have spent a lot of time studying doctrine in the bible. I dont' quote chapter and verse as I've yet to ever meet anyone that wanted to look it up, they want to know but don't want to work for the answers, that is too bad as the bible is rich with things for all of them that are wanting answers.

Answer 3

I guess you're talking about someone who made a formal declaration of accepting Jesus as their Savior and Lord. But then failed to develop a relationship. We must have a relationship with Jesus. Matthews 7: 21-23

Answer 4

I'm a christian and i don't think so. Thats why so many christians talk about how they walked away from God and came back. I think the person who said that wants an excuse for doing bad things and then saying, oh it doesnt matter because i knew God before and im going to heaven any way. that's not the case

Answer 5

According to the Christian faith--such as baptists and others but not Catholics--that is true. The whole idea behind it, is Salvation is a gift from God and if you accept it, you will go to heaven. If you're a Christian and you do this, why would you NOT want to go to heaven and give it up? Understand?

Answer 6

Well once you receive Him as your Savior then your are making a promise to Him that you will obey him and worship Him. But once you doubt Him or loose trust, or deside you don't want to go to heaven or something, the thats a sin. and you need to ask for forgiveness. Because if you don't want to go to heaven .. then you probably aren't a Christian.

Answer 7

the solution is to renounce Christianity. i don't know if you can keep believing in the Jesus/salvation routine and not be Christian. you'll have to work that out with Jesus but i totally understand why you'd not want to spend eternity with only Christian Fundies for company. i mean ... imagine it. **shudder** i can't think of anything more hellish.

i feel more sympathy and pity for Jesus for his having to spend eternity surrounded by his sycophantic followers than i ever felt for him because of his tortured death. at least his agony on the cross ended.

Answer 8

Sure... all you've got to do is believe that a cosmic Jewish zombie, who is his own father, can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him that you accept him as your master so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced, by a talking snake with legs, to eat from a magical tree... (etc.)... and that there is something horribly wrong with people who ARE NOT so gullible and droolingly stupid as to believe such outrageously ridiculous codswallop.

Answer 9

Once saved always saved is what you are referring to and it is a relatively new doctrine among some protestant groups.

However the Bible warns us that we must persevere in our faith and not fall back into our old ways.

Short answer: You can lose your salvation if after you originally accept Christ, you turn away.

Answer 10

You cannot be a Christian and not want to go to Heaven! After all,the essence of beign a Christian is to escape hell and go to Heaven!