If so, is there some kind of tunnel that leads to eventual death at the end of the person's life, within the unconscious, in which such moral people will get a chance to accept Jesus as their Lord and savior?
2007-09-09 06:41:04 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You have your chance, here and now. Once you die, your chance is gone. Every time you hear what Jesus did for you, you have a chance. Every. Single. Time. You harden your heart to it and in time become numb like a stone, it eventually causes you to be annoyed or angry. It's a rebellion based on what you want for yourself and not what God wants for you. How do you even know what God wants for you unless you listen to Him? You could be living a middle class life when He wants to bless you with riches because He knows you won't succumb to wickedness with them, it could be the opposite, who knows?
If you live and see the Great Tribulation first hand, you will know who it is that sends those plagues upon the earth. You will also know they will not cease until the appointed time. You will be stuck to endure them as a test. During that time you can still join and be accepted by the Lord until you take the brand of the antichrist.
NO man is good. No, not one. EVERY person fails in their OWN ideals and morales. You WILL fail, EVERY person fails. That is exactly the point of Jesus. The 10 commandments showed us we couldn't be "good" on our own and we needed help. We had to be made clean and given a fresh start. Enter the savior and the offer to have your sins erased from the memory and books of God. You accept or decline it on your own accord. Why would you be given another chance AFTER you died? AFTER you denied Him for so long? You argue against Him all your life and fail to listen, why would you be given another chance after your death? Did He not give you mercy in letting you hear the message time and time again? Chance after chance? If you deny it and turn away, do not expect to be rewarded or pardoned, His mercy for you has been enough, He was kind enough to let you have your entire life to simply accept Him. That's all it takes, just to accept Him.
2007-09-09 06:55:44 · answer #1 · answered by Stahn 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Q. -- "Will God be merciful toward those atheists who were good and moral people?"
A. -- According to the Bible, God is a LOVING God. So I believe that something akin to what you said in the rest of your question is likely to be the case. However, I think that there IS a danger. That being the possibility that a person has been given the chance to learn about Christ in this life, and accept Him, but then has outright **rejected** that gift. That person MAY not get such a chance again.
2007-09-09 06:48:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Not rreally,
First of all in my understanding of the Bible, death is nothing more than non existence, you go to sleep until the day of resurrection by Jesus.
Upon resurrection people will learn the truth about GOD and how we should be living our lives. If after learning the truth and it is deliberately opposed, thats when a person would face death eternally, without a hope of everlasting life in a perfect world. Supposedly there would come a day when the world would be governed in a whole new way, a righteous way. By GOD through Jesus and 144,000 anointed servants in heaven. When the world is the way it should be, its rule will be handed back to Jah.
Not every one would be dead on that day of the resurrection. There would be as the Bible describes a "great crowd" of those who practice washing their ways clean. They would be used in rebuilding the world. But it would be after the world is rebuilt that Jesus would begin resurrecting.
2007-09-09 07:11:52 · answer #3 · answered by Eve 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are all mongrels, morally speaking. Each of us has been "bad" and will be again and again. Each of us is also a child of God.
Moses told the Israelites, before they ever were a nation, "Be kind to the foreigners in Your midst, because You were once foreigners in Egypt." Would God be less good?
Jesus said, "Love Your enemies." God would practice what he preaches.
The Quran says, many times, "He is ever inclined to mercy." Couldn't be clearer.
2007-09-09 07:08:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, sorry but life is the only chance you get. Everyone has been given the whole of their lives to accept Jesus i think that's long enough, it's more than we deserve anyway.
2007-09-09 07:54:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. God doesn't accept us because we are 'moral' --- we aren't moral. Scripture says that all have fallen short of the Glory of God, there is none righteous, no not one, all of our good works are as filthy rags before the Lord, etc. We are not saved because we are moral. We are saved because Jesus paid the cost for our sin. He is our righteousness. We are not righteous and we are not 'good people'.
We get many chances in this life to accept the Lord or not. After that, our chances are up.
I believe that when we die, all of us --- including Christians, including even indigenous people who apparently had never heard the name of Jesus --- will be shocked at how many chances the Lord gave us to come to Him. It may not have appeared so obvious here, but I believe that we will see how many missed opportunities there were during our earthly lives and be shocked.
2007-09-09 06:47:38 · answer #6 · answered by KL 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋
The only morality or goodness that matters to God is that which He created. You cannot live a 'moral' life (by your own standards) and expect mercy from God. He has made it clear that the only way to Him is through His Son, Jesus Christ. If you have heard of Jesus Christ, then you have been given a chance to accept Him. If you continue to be an athiest, you have not accepted Him. Only God knows your heart. If there is faith and belief in Christ in your heart when you die, you will go to Heaven. If there isn't, you won't. Plain and simple.
2007-09-09 06:50:12 · answer #7 · answered by bizou_bear 3 · 0⤊ 4⤋
God is LOVE. People who "do not" believe in God don't know that they do. We all can breath, the air is out but you can not see it. The same with God. I now a friend of mine who used to say He did not believe in God. When 9-11 he was there in a business trip and when he heard the explosion he said the first thing came to his mind was Oh My God, please don't let me die here, after a few days he realized there was a God and also realized that something terrible happened and in a second he was saved. Now he goes to hospitals and visit sick people and talks them what happened to him.
2007-09-09 06:54:42 · answer #8 · answered by Piojita 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
First you have to decide if you are an atheist and why and after you decide you believe in God, moral compared to what or whom? If you mean moral by the standards of God then no one would go to heaven as we all have broken the 10 commandments that is why Jesus came and said I am the way, the truth and the life and no one comes to the Father but by Me. He took your sins upon himself to pay the price so you don't have to later. It's like God looking at you through sinless eyes. Another thing is you have no idea when you are going to die and God finds you you don't find Him. Accept Jesus while He is knocking at the door!
2007-09-09 06:52:43 · answer #9 · answered by walt3233 3 · 1⤊ 4⤋
For those that rejected the righteousness of Christ they will be judged by God according to their works.. Trouble is God has already knows what the heart of man is all about. IHS Jim
Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
2007-09-09 07:02:12 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋