A good person can die and go to hell while a sinner can repent at the end of life and go to heaven. Fair?

Question

Is repentance fair?
Why do charitable loving people go to Hell while murderers receive forgiveness?

Answer 1

Jesus said,"I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except by Me."

The only thing God wants from us is to believe His Son.

Nothing we can do will ever be enough.
Jesus did the work on the Cross.

Answer 2

Well, they can say they repented, but anyone can say so. God looks at the heart But, if you don't accept Jesus you can't go to Heaven no matter how good you are. There are some rules and regulation to follow. It may not seem fair but if you follow the rules you can be saved. The Bible teaches of a man working a full day and one coming in just for a few hours, and getting a full days pay. We don't know God's thinking but His thoughts are so far above ours that there's no way we could. As soon as we get to Heaven we will know. If you were the muderer and accepted salvation just in time I bet you would be happy. Or the man that worked just a little and got full pay. I bet you'd be happy. HUH?

Answer 3

Yes it is fair. Every one of us has multiple chances to receive God's forgiveness by grace through faith in Christ. Charitable loving people are still sinners just like the rest of us. Christ died for all sins - Not just the little ones.
Hebrews 9:27 tells us that we die, and then face judgement. So, as long as a person is alive, he has a second, third, fourth, fifth, etc. chance to accept Christ and be saved (John 3:16; Romans 10:9-10; Acts 16:31).

Answer 4

A good person go to hell if God will not have mercy for him. And because of that you can`t tell that is gone to hell or heaven. Even about the sinner.

In fact, the sinner has the chance to be in the same situation like the good one.

So I think that you have a bad focused tink about that.

Kyrie eleison.

Answer 5

Rom 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
Rom 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Rom 10:9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
Rom 10:10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

Isa 53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

A good person....is what you said...This is what God says: Mat 19:17 ..... there is none good but one, that is, God...
Yes, a charitable loving person who does not accept Jesus as savior does go to Hell.
Is repentance fair?
No, we all deserve eternal hell and damnation, but Jesus paid the price for us so we no longer have to....see above scriptures, and:
Eph 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Eph 2:9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
Here is a definition of grace that I like:
God's
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Why do charitable loving people go to Hell while murderers receive forgiveness? Because they have repented, if this is to be a true statement. God is fair and just, but he defines the terms of fairness and justice, we don't.

Answer 6

As a practising medium considering the fact that 1991 i even have self belief that there is not any hell as we envisage it; using fact in loss of life all of us bypass into yet another measurement and there we are taken care of and re-knowledgeable earlier being moved on. A quote says " I n my Father`s abode there are various mansions". If we've sinned this is the place we create our very own hell. We study from exceeded human beings reporting lower back by way of classes.

Answer 7

Where did you read this in the bible.

Acts 2:27-35; How was it Jesus was resurrected out of Sepulchre hell, Cave or pit, tomb or grave, burial ground or cemetery, where every one else is.

So after his resurrection he goes to visit tartarus prison hell where the angels are that sinned before the flood and they wait for judgement day same as man. Heb.9:27; It is appointed unto man once to die and after this the judgement.

Then there is tophet, Gehenna or the valley of the son of Hinnom 2Chr.28:1-4;
Jer.7:30,31; 19:2-5; Josiah turned it into Jerusalem's city dump Mark 9:42-48;

Then there is the imaginations of the heart as with Pharisees Luke 16:14-31;
Where is truth as there is no such thing as the living dead.
Luke 16:16,17,29,31; Search it out.

Answer 8

My dad said that his uncle was a hell raiser most of his life. He got religion near the end and they said he went to heaven. Sounds like a loophole to me.
It isn't fair and perhaps isn't what Jesus intended by repentance and accepting god.
An effective way to subjugate people to a power base though. Seems if Jesus were that cliquish the gentiles would never have been invited. Rent in heaven being what it is these days...

Answer 9

I don't think that's fair at all. I think God would want people to live like him and be as good as possible, not do whatever you want and not worry cause as long you repent you'll go to heaven.

Answer 10

Who said that charitable loving people go to Hell? Are you God? It's up to Him, not us.

Answer 11

You can repent and go to heaven also.

By the way, what do you mean by "good"?

You go up to ANY body, and ask them these questions, and if they're honest, you'll be suprised. I'll go ahead and ask YOU to be honest:

Have you ever told a lie?

Have you ever taken anything that's not rightfully yours to take?

Have you ever looked at another person with sexual desires? (Jesus said you are guilty of adultery).

Have you ever been angry at another person and wished them ill will, even hating them or wishing they were dead? (Jesus said the heart attitude makes you guilty of murder).

If, in all honesty, you had to say "yes" to these 4 questions, that would make you a lying, thieving adulterous murderer (OUCH!)

But that's not all. If you have ever lied, or if you have ever taken anything that wasn't yours, I would have to ask you if you like it when others lie to you, or if you like it if someone steals YOUR stuff?

If you said you don't like being lied to, and you don't like having your stuff stolen, then that adds hypocracy to the list (double-standard).

NOW, you would be a lying, thieving, adulterous, murderous hypocrite! (Again, OUCH!)

If you knew someone who is a lying, thieving, adulterous, murderous hypocrite, would you call him or her a good person?

The Bible says that we have ALL sinned and broken God's Laws (refer to the 10 Commandments).

But what's NOT fair is that Jesus died to pay the penalty for YOUR sins (crimes against God). How is THAT fair?

The Bible says that even though Jesus knew no sin, yet He actually became sin FOR us. He took our place and traded places with us on the cross, because WE are the ones who deserve it.

But God is offering a pardon (an unmerited pardon, I might add) to anyone who is willing to acknowledge their guilt, repent of their sins, and trust Jesus.

Of course, you need to understand, that doing these things doesn't earn us a pardon, since we're already guilty. Doing these things frees up God so He CAN pardon us.

The Bible says "There is none good, no not one" for "ALL have sinned and fall short of the glory of God".

So, if a person truly IS good (from GOD'S perspective, and has NEVER broken even a single commandment), then they are going to heaven. OR, if a person is good because they have turned to Jesus and received a transformation in their hearts, then they are going to heaven. OR, if a person is a sinner and repents of their sins so that they are now good, then they are going to heaven.

But a person who thinks he is good enough without God's grace and mercy, a person who doesn't think he needs God's forgiveness, or refuses to repent, or refuses to trust in Jesus (but rather trusts in themself), then they are the people you're talking about that will go to Hell, no matter HOW much charitable deeds they do, because they refuse to admit that they are guilty before God, they refuse to repent of their sins, and they refuse to trust Jesus.