Khmer Rouge embraces Jesus
The Khmer Rouge followed a harsh brand of communism, killing nearly two million people in their bid to return Cambodia to Year Zero. Now they have a new faith: evangelical Christianity.
Hundreds of former fighters have been baptised in the past year. The Khmer Rouge's mountain stronghold, the town of Pailin in south-west Cambodia, has four churches, all with pastors and growing congregations. At least 2,000 of those who followed Pol Pot, the guerrillas' former leader who died six years ago, now worship Jesus.
Many new converts were involved in the bloody battles, massacres and forced labour programmes that led to the Killing Fields. [end excerpt]
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If they are truly repentant, these Khmer butchers will go to Heaven, but most of their victims are headed to a worse place than the killing fields forever. Agreed?
But as to your premise as of who, in that situation, would enter the kingdom of heaven, then yes, you are correct, and I agree.
I am telling you such a transformation is not possible apart from divine intervention. And, divine intervention is possible to each one who would simply and sincerely ask it of the Creator. It really is an amazing thing.
What of those innocent who suffered at the hands of the brutal regime? Each person has an inborn knowledge of the Creator. Apart from children under the age of reason, if these people chose to embrace the Creator then they too would enter heaven as well. The tragic manner in which these innocent victims experienced death has no bearing on whether or not they entered heaven. Like you and me, it is what an individual personally chooses to do with the knowledge of the Creator that is the sole determining factor as to whether or not one enters eternity in heaven.
"If they are truly repentant, these Khmer butchers will go to Heaven, but most of their victims are headed to a worse place than the killing fields forever. Agreed?"
What a disgusting sentiment. I hope you were being sarcastic.