Posted on 03/21/2024 3:47:09 PM PDT by DoodleBob
Hi! You have made excellent observations and points. I read over my comment and it sounded to me, very critical. That was not my full intention. My full intention is to focus appeal to our Heavenly Father, His Mercy and take solace that He and He alone knows our hearts. Therefore, when I reach paradise, I hope to be very happily surprised at who greets me. There. that’s better said.
🙂🙂
that is not for me to decide
I submit to the Highest Authority
Well said.
When Timothy McVeigh was executed, he asked for a Priest to administer Last Rights (McVeigh was raised Catholic).
https://www.ncregister.com/news/heaven-or-hell-mcveighs-request-for-last-rites
The possibility that McVeigh made it to heaven and Judas didn’t, is profound. It moves us to see that (as I heard in Church) God is forever pining away for our confession…for us to ask for his forgiveness.
Have a blessed day.
that is not for me to decide
I submit to the Highest Authority
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Well you seem to have decided so much regarding what the Bible “says”, I assumed you also would have decided this issue. Sorry for the mistake.
Please explain; perhaps I am wrong, if so, I’d like to know why.
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Not ALWAYS for at least two reasons: (1) the sinner may be alive but mentally incapable of repenting due to injury, disease, madness, etc.; and (2) s/he may be deceased.
I take it from your replies you believe you must have been forgiven (on earth) from all sins to go to heaven.
The Jews were “forgiven” by sacrifice. So then is Abraham in hell? Did he have to offer a sacrifice real quick on his deathbed for something he might have done (or not done) that was a sin? No. Because he was justified through faith. It was his faith that saved him, not his practice of sacrifice.
We are saved through our faith. This is the mechanism that allows God to use substitution (just like a sacrifice) to pay for our sins. So, the important question to ask is - DID one have faith when they died.
Was Barabas given a similar abode to Saint John Paul?
Excellent subject for debate.
I grew up in church, played the game for years - thinking that I was fine…
Then came the day where I completely surrendered my WHOLE life to Christ.
He changed me completely. There will NEVER be any going back.
I think Judas was still doing that first part of my life. -Just playing the game.
Well, it certainly existed in both the Old and New Testaments.
Have you tried reading them?
Isn’t suicide a sin from which you cannot repent, since you’re dead?
We are saved through our faith.
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You’re saved through faith alright, but definitely NOT by faith alone because the Bible if filled with warnings that IF you do not repent (not a once in a lifetime event), i.e., if you have committed sins which, for whatever reason you have not repented you will be condemned. So this notion that you’ll be saved because one fine day you decided to repent for all your sins past, present, AND FUTURE is simply nonsense by means of which Satan is kept busy night and day welcoming condemned souls to the fires of Hell.
Hardly...
As ye judged, so shall ye be judged.
Be careful
Mathew 26:50 he did.
My bad you’re a Catholic so I have no idea what the pope told you the answer is.
You’re incorrect....
Answer:
Judas and The AntiChrist are the only individuals referred to as SOP (Son of Perdition).
Who is the son of perdition?
https://www.gotquestions.org/son-of-perdition.html
Thanks for the link. I will do more research and might (as failed as I am) try to be a more gracious than I was. I grow so very tired or the Catholic vs protestant that end up occurring but then I smack up against it in my own face. Grace alone, faith alone …. Yet I still fall so short. Thx again fot the nugget of truth.
Was Judas doing what was designed for him to do? Did he has free will?
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