...can live their entire life doing whatever s/he pleases, and then say "Oops! Sorry, Jesus. You're my savior and I love you!" at the last minute and still get into Heaven?
2007-12-13 07:44:57 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I can still think it while in cardiac arrest :D
2007-12-13 07:50:22 · update #1
well, that's MY plan...LOL
2007-12-13 07:47:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 9⤊ 3⤋
Considering the fact that baptism is necessary to salvation, unless the person on the "deathbed" truly repents, confesses AND is baptized, the "conversion" is not going to work.
"He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned." Mark 16:16
The important word is "AND" in the above verse. The order of the commands is also important. Belief and baptism are necessary, in that order.
There is a reason that Jesus said...
"Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven." Matthew 7:21
Notice the phrase ":but he that doeth the will of my Father".. Faith without works (action) is not enough. There are no deathbed conversions examples in the Bible. The thief on the cross lived and died under the Old Testament laws which did not require baptism. However, once Christ died, the New Testament, which does require baptism, was in effect. Therefore the thief's salvation was not an example of a deathbed conversion under the New Testament law (the law of Christ.)
See source for more information on the salvation of the thief on the cross.
2007-12-13 07:59:20 · answer #2 · answered by TG 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes it is technically true. Verses in the Bible indicating that faith without works is possible under these circumstances. However, one should not plan his life for that moment since there is NO guarantee it will happen. The way we live now greatly influences our final decision. An habitual sinful life tends to lead to pride and despair at the moment of death. But we cannot fault the GOODNESS of God who can pay the same wages to those who did a full days work and those who came to work during the last hour of the day (Bible story).
2007-12-13 07:58:40 · answer #3 · answered by gismoII 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, but it's not recommened. No matter what the circumstance if they come to believe before they die they will ultimatly be saved. A good example of this is when Jesus was about to die on the cross. There was a good and a bad robber who both lived lives full of sin. Before he died, the good robber came to believe in Jesus and stood up for him. Jesus rewarded him by telling him that the robber would be in Paradise with him (Heaven).
2007-12-13 07:50:26 · answer #4 · answered by MIzuki 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
a minimum of we've Hume: David Hume - On his Deathbed In loss of life, Hume became desperate to set an occasion. James Boswell have been given the journalistic scoop of the Enlightenment whilst he interviewed Hume on his loss of life mattress. Hume stated that he now not believed in faith and became skeptical of any afterlife, including that as quickly as he heard a guy became non secular, he concluded he became a rascal, although he had often happening some cases of fairly good adult males being non secular. interior the face of loss of life, Boswell stumbled on Hume ‘placid’ and ‘even joyful’. Deeply stricken via his very own non secular convictions, Boswell became very disturbed via Hume’s unconcerned atheism. Weeks later, he appealed to Dr Samuel Johnson to calm his fears; Johnson instructed Boswell that Hume became mendacity. The data shows in any different case.
2016-11-03 04:01:40 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's possible, but who's to say that you'll actually have enough time to say all that? People that go into Cardiac arrest can't even speak when their dying. You might get into a car accident and die instantly...so...when would you have the time?
Better to get it all done now, than to try to risk it and do it last minute.
2007-12-13 07:49:34 · answer #6 · answered by Scooterette1! 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Of course you can accept Jesus on your death bed, but what are the chances that you'll have that opportunity? Also, you can pray that prayer of salvation, but without sincerity, you can't be saved. If you plan to go like that, I don't think its a risk worth taking.
LOL Imagine if you get better or cured!!!!!!!!
2007-12-13 17:26:12 · answer #7 · answered by discombobulated girl 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well yes of course! That's what John [3:15] recalls that Jesus Christ said anyway.
2007-12-13 07:59:54 · answer #8 · answered by Icy Gazpacho 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think that is stupid but yes you are able to pull trick **** like thatwith jesus but with orther Gods you gotta be good 24/7
2007-12-13 07:51:07 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yeah, but you're screwed if you die of spontaneous human combustion and don't have the opportunity to ask for forgiveness. On the other hand, at least you won't have any sudden temperature shock when you enter the Inferno of the Damned.
2007-12-13 07:48:36 · answer #10 · answered by STFU Dude 6 · 12⤊ 1⤋
magely LOL
I think that if they accept NDEs as potentially real, they have to accept that Jesus is not the only way through the pearly gates, because NDEs happen to non Christians just as much as Christians.
2007-12-13 07:50:09 · answer #11 · answered by ɹɐǝɟsuɐs Blessed Cheese Maker 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋