In that classic move of hollywood plots, he loses his memory completely, and never regains it. He starts a whole new life, but never again encounters the teachings of Christ. The rest of his life is spent ignorant of religion.
Saved, or damned? Your call.
2007-12-11 10:19:45 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You know, on reflection, this'd make a pretty good Reality TV show.
2007-12-11 10:27:56 · update #1
Saved. He know longer knows Christ. A step in the right direction.
2007-12-11 10:22:30 · answer #1 · answered by Jakero Evigh 5 · 3⤊ 4⤋
Well, you may be onto something here - I'd watch. And I don't watch the other 'reality' shows.
Saved. Done is done and Christ supercedes our linear-thought-mind.
My 2 pence worth: God-fearing doesn't mean terrified. I means reverential awe. So since he is "god-fearing, Christian..." when he gets amnesia that is only his cognizant memory. The Truth of his being having been previously acknowledged would carry him through.
Great twist on Jonah. Can't you have a great white regurgitate him whole with no wounds, so he has shark for dinner until he gets his bearings. (What synchronicity! or was it God providing???) What a great opener for the show. Now you've got me started.
:)
2007-12-12 09:04:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
1) It's not "my call". Or yours. It's God's call.
2) As a theological discussion (as if this were a question on a canonical examination) - I'd need to know the state of his life prior to the shipwreck. Was he Baptized? You see, "salvation" (Latin = salus = health) is nothing that we can "work" or even "think" our way into. It is a gift of God. And that gift is given through Baptismal Regeneration - or, what Scripture calls being "born again by water and the Spirit" (Jesus Christ in John Chapter 3)
2007-12-11 18:26:31 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have known of people who have suffered Alzheimer's disease, dementia, or other diseases of the mind. These folks may not have been able to divert or deflect the results of aging. If someone has genuinely trusted Christ as Savior, there is no issue. What was settled in youth or at whatever stage of life can't be undone as far as salvation is concerned. We need to remember that salvation is a gift--it's not based on anything we do, everything on what Jesus did.
I hope nothing like this ever happens to me, but if it does, I am prepared to meet Jesus when my life on this earth is over.
2007-12-11 18:56:57 · answer #4 · answered by Brother Jonathan 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Good question! Saved, from himself that is. Then again if it is in him to need to have the hope that one gets from religion, he would probably develop his own mysticism. Assuming he has lost all memory of the society he came from he probably would regress to the type of mythology that all ancient cultures had, with multiple gods controlling nature.
2007-12-11 18:30:33 · answer #5 · answered by chris 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The scenario does not need to be so unusual.. What about memory loss caused by illness or old age?
I believe that good people are good people, and I believe that God lets good people into heaven regardless of religion.
Deus caritas est..
A Catholic
2007-12-11 18:32:05 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Saved in my book because he would also no longer remember the false teachings of Charles Darwin either.
2007-12-11 18:25:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The amnesia is a mental condition over which he has no control. Because of this, the condition of his soul is the same as before the accident.
2007-12-11 18:25:42 · answer #8 · answered by sdb deacon 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Saved.
Romans 8:35-39 (New International Version)
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35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36As it is written:
"For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered."[a] 37No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,[b] neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
2007-12-11 18:23:57 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
You've missed the point.
It's not my call. It's God's call.
And I can trust Him to make the right decision. That's why I'm not God, I don't know everything!
2007-12-11 18:25:11 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋