He beat his wife, took drugs and slept around but he was a super christian!
We incur a legal debt to God when we sin because sin is breaking the Law of God. Payments are made to legal debts.
Jesus paid for our sins - He took our sins upon Himself and died with them. He took our place and made a legal payment according to the Law.
Wait a sec...if the point is that Steve McQueen always was a model Christian, well, baloney. However, it seems the point of this is that McQueen, when he was I’ll, realized he was a miserable sinner who had led a life that was littered with mistakes, and that he need repent before death or he would not go to Heaven. Objections?
Before or after becoming a “super Christian.”
Either way, more evidence of mans sin and need of a saviour.
Btw, please define “super Christian.”
Actually towards the last year of his life did McQueen turned his life to God. Billy Graham testified that he saw McQueens new found faith personally right before he died
What is missing in the 2011 Daily Mail article and the Newsmax article is his conversion to Christianity. However it sounds like, reading both, is that the abuse stopped after he became a Christian. But, hey, cheap shots of condemning folks as Christians because of their pre-Christian life, are common from anti-Christians.
“He beat his wife, took drugs and slept around but he was a super christian!”
I think the idea is that he REPENTED.
“He beat his wife, took drugs and slept around but he was a super christian!”
So you’re saying that the thief on the cross couldn’t possibly have gone to Heaven, considering his life of sin? What about Saul/Paul? People do make their decisions for Christ later in life with all kinds of “baggage” - legal and otherwise.
Sounds like those activities were prior to becoming a Christian. That is what Jesus does...He changes people.
And St. Paul condoned murdering Christians, so what is your point?
Just hold it there kiddo; I have probably committed every sin known to man and GOD, with the exception that I have never struck a woman.
I was born again in 1975 and have tried mightily not to commit any of those sins again, and have failed in that endeavor several times, but I do keep trying.
GOD gave his only SON on the cross so that MY sins could be washed away, not just mine, but also yours and Mr. McQueen’s.
Just remember, judgement belongs to GOD, not us.
King David committed adultery with Bathsheba and impregnated her. Then David tried to hide his sin by ordering her husband Uriah home from the battlefield in hopes he would sleep with his wife and believe the baby was his. When that didn’t work he ordered his military leader Joab to place Uriah on the front lines and then fall back, leaving him exposed to attack so he would likely be killed, which he was.
Despite all of his sins, the Bible says David was a man after God’s own heart. David truly sinned, but he also truly repented and possessed unshakable faith.
What you must understand is this very simple, yet profound, truth: GRACE IS FOR THE GUILTY. Jesus Christ came to seek and save the lost.
Amazing, how superior that made you feel... Did it help with your problem?