If you're a mean person to other people for no reason your whole life, but go to church every week and pray all the time. Are you still going to go heaven?
2007-12-13 10:45:44 · 14 answers · asked by Moral Orel 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Mean - evil -good - does not exist.
So everyone is welcome
Of course.
2007-12-17 10:39:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Going to church every week and praying all the time doesn't matter if you have not been born again and received the gift of the Holy Spirit and been baptized in the name of Jesus! No one is going to Heaven unless they have been through these processes.
2007-12-13 18:54:35 · answer #2 · answered by CJ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the Bible says that if you confess with your mouth Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart God has raised him from the dead, you will be saved. If this person is mean and rude, he/she is probably not a true Christian. Going to church every week and praying all the time is nothing without a personal relationship with Jesus. You must accept him as your savior to be considered a true Christian and it seems the person you're describing is not living the life a true Christian would.
2007-12-13 18:52:54 · answer #3 · answered by livn4christ121 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's why I don't believe in an all-knowing, all-loving, all-present God because he is apparently very easily deceived. For instance, Hitler probably prayed hard before he died and accepted Christ. Of course he did, he was a Christian despite what people believe. Does it make sense that a child can die and go to Hell but a sick f**** can go to Heaven?
2007-12-13 18:51:55 · answer #4 · answered by clint 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not if you are continually sinning and hating.
1 John 3:14b-15
"He who does not love abides in death. Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer; and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him."
Hebrews 10:26-27
"For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a a sacrifice for sins, but a certain terrifying expectation of judgment, and the fury of a fire which will consume the adversaries."
That basically says that if you go on sinning after becoming a "Christian", it's as Jesus never died for you on the cross and payed the for your sins; "a sacrifice no longer remains". There's no way to get to heaven if there's no sacrifice. A true Christian turns away from his sins when he repents; if you keep on sinning after "becoming Christian", that's a sign that you arn't truly a Christian.
2007-12-13 18:49:09 · answer #5 · answered by Sam 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One would need a lot of Purgatory(if such a one dies in the state of grace ,that is).
Heaven as a state for those who die without yielding up all sins,attachment to sin,sinful attitudes and other rejections of grace is simply impossible,illogical ,ungodlyand unjust
2007-12-13 18:52:10 · answer #6 · answered by James O 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It really doesn't matter how many times you go to church. God doesn't have a scale that He uses to mark our attendences. What matters is the relationship that you have with Him. What matters is what happens before you die. If you refuse to repent of your meanness, well........ if you do then.......
God is the judge and jury. If's His heaven and only He gets to decide who gets to go there and who doesn't.
2007-12-13 18:54:03 · answer #7 · answered by Debra d 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, mean people are not going to heaven. Neither are nice people. Heaven is a myth, and does not really exist.
2007-12-13 18:53:13 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably not, because you have to be a Christian to go to Heaven, and the Bible specifically says :they will know we are Christians by our love". But it is possible.
2007-12-13 18:51:06 · answer #9 · answered by kellie_lyday 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If Hitler genuinely accepted Christ on his death bed then Heaven will be a little more Aryan, if you catch my drift..
Does that answer your question?
Basically, you can be an abominable human, accept Christ late in life and receive eternal happiness. Or you can be Ghandi and land in Hell...
2007-12-13 18:50:20 · answer #10 · answered by mam2121 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
jesus told us to love one another.
meanness is not compatible with that instruction.
so i would say meanness is a sin, and those who are mean are sinners.
god will judge them, just as he will judge the rest of us.
2007-12-13 18:52:53 · answer #11 · answered by waterlin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋