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Old 07-07-2009, 01:16 AM
 
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If you get murdered by someone do you automatically get to go to Heaven? My family (who are Christians like me) have told me that if you get murdered you automatically get to go to Heaven.
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Old 07-07-2009, 02:17 AM
 
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Don't see how that can be. If a person doesn't deserve to go the heaven they are not going to get there, no matter how they died.
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Old 07-07-2009, 02:43 AM
 
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Just like everyone, you go where your soul is fitted. The condition of your soul determines where you go in heaven.
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Old 07-07-2009, 03:17 AM
 
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If you get murdered by someone do you automatically get to go to Heaven? My family (who are Christians like me) have told me that if you get murdered you automatically get to go to Heaven.
Have you asked they why they think that? I wondered whether it was a way of getting around one aspect of the 'problem of evil'

If God watches every sparrow fall, why does he allow some people to be murdered? There are some sophisticated answers to that (I suspect we get some of them now) but an unsophisticated one might be that God compensates the murdered for His allowing of the evil of murder by rewarding the victim with a complimentary ticket to heaven.

P.s thanks by the way to all those for the personal comments and cred -points - including a Guest (join us and have your say). I would have replied personally but, being a cyberdunce, I haven't yet found out how to reply.

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Old 07-07-2009, 04:09 AM
 
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If you get murdered by someone do you automatically get to go to Heaven? My family (who are Christians like me) have told me that if you get murdered you automatically get to go to Heaven.
all sins damn but if you seek to be forgiven you will be.

has nothing to do with the manner of your death...
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Old 07-07-2009, 10:17 AM
 
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If you get murdered by someone do you automatically get to go to Heaven? My family (who are Christians like me) have told me that if you get murdered you automatically get to go to Heaven.
Not according to Conservative, Evangelical Christianity. You must accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior to go to heaven. This is why its perplexing when Christians bring up murderers as a justification of eternal punishment, when in fact according to their faith a murderer's victims are just as likely to go to hell as the murderer.
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Old 07-07-2009, 10:21 AM
 
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If you get murdered by someone do you automatically get to go to Heaven? My family (who are Christians like me) have told me that if you get murdered you automatically get to go to Heaven.
If you are saved, yes and only if you are saved, how you die has nothing to do with where you spend eternity.
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Old 07-07-2009, 10:38 AM
 
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If you get murdered by someone do you automatically get to go to Heaven? My family (who are Christians like me) have told me that if you get murdered you automatically get to go to Heaven.

What if you don't want to go to heaven?
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Old 07-07-2009, 10:40 AM
 
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What you do with the son of God, Jesus Christ is what determines your eternal destiny.
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Old 07-07-2009, 10:41 AM
 
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What if you don't want to go to heaven?
Then presumably one is deemed to have 'chosen' hell
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