Once your saved does that mean you will go to heaven no matter what?

[Jmichael]

I was told by a christian that once you get saved you will go to heaven no matter what. Lets say i became a christian asked jesus into my life and repented from sin but later in life i became a lustful sex addict and a alcoholic and died without recovering. Would i still go to heaven then? This question came to my mind soon as a christian told me you can't possibly earn eternal life no matter how good you are.

 

[sandman]

I was told by a christian that once you get saved you will go to heaven no matter what. Lets say i became a christian asked jesus into my life and repented from sin but later in life i became a lustful sex addict and a alcoholic and died without recovering. Would i still go to heaven then? This question came to my mind soon as a christian told me you can't possibly earn eternal life no matter how good you are.

Some people use the expression “once saved always saved” ……I have never read the in the Bible, but the Bible does state that once you are saved, born again, you have that spirit of God within {the gift}you cannot loose it …..simply because you did nothing to earn it ………….it’s a gift
I Peter 1:23

Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

How you want to live after that is up to you ………..walk in defeat …..or ….walk as more then a conquer in every situation…..either way you still have eternal life

 

[Digit]

I was told by a christian that once you get saved you will go to heaven no matter what. Lets say i became a christian asked jesus into my life and repented from sin but later in life i became a lustful sex addict and a alcoholic and died without recovering. Would i still go to heaven then? This question came to my mind soon as a christian told me you can't possibly earn eternal life no matter how good you are.

Hmmm, that's an interesting question. I don't truly believe I can live life however I wish. I feel that if I sin, I am on bad footing with God and I need to make amends with Him. I cannot accept Him and live life my way. Because accepting Him is accepting His standards, and His rules. As soon as I have disobeyed one of those, I have sinned therefore rejected Him, as such I will be subject to condemnation. You cannot enter Heaven, without accepting the Lord as your saviour.

Digit

 

[childofGod31]

John said: 1JO 3:9 No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God's seed remains in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God.
10 This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not a child of God; nor is anyone who does not love his brother.

If you are truly saved, you will not be living in sin. I don't mean an occasional sin, because we all sin, but actually living in sin.

So, it's true that once you are saved, you go to heaven no matter what. But at the same time is true that, if you sin, you are not really saved.

That means you will not sin if you are saved. (so "no matter what" doesn't apply)


Note: but if you live in sin, and before you die, you repent of your sinning, it's possible that you will still go to heaven even though you lived in sin (as long as you repent before you die). But the Spirit of God sometimes doesn't touch people, so you can't always repent. So it would be a very risky road to take. Because repentance is not simply saying: "forgive me", but rather it's an attitude of the heart, which you cannot at will produce; sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesn't.

 

[Sri]

you can't loose your salvation,but you can forfeit it. So therefore, once saved you can still backslide and end up not going to heaven. Those who ABIDE in Christ will be saved, those who call on his name and have died to their sins. Identified with Christ. Real repentance isn't oh, well you'll forgive me and I'll get to go to heaven anyway so I'm going to commit adultery and molest a few kids, forgive me but....no there are no buts. Repentance is a U turn we don't deserve.

 

[Key]

I was told by a christian that once you get saved you will go to heaven no matter what. Lets say i became a christian asked jesus into my life and repented from sin but later in life i became a lustful sex addict and a alcoholic and died without recovering. Would i still go to heaven then? This question came to my mind soon as a christian told me you can't possibly earn eternal life no matter how good you are.

The short answer to the question of "Will I go to heaven no matter what"? is.

No.

Because..

You must "Pick up your cross and follow Christ"

God Bless

Key

 

[sandman]

nope, if you blasmimise trhe holy spirt, no salvation for you!

lostsheepwithoutashepard
If you understand what blasphemy is, you will realize it cannot be committed after someone is born again

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I am seeing a whole lot of maybe if’s and no but not much scripture to back up what is being said………..
Personal feelings concerning salvation are exactly that, personal feelings. Comprehending the grace of God and the gift of salvation are a difficult thing for the mind to do, we always want to add to it, but Gods word is the final authority
Ephesians

4: But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
5: Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved)
6: And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
7: That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
8: For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
9: Not of works, lest any man should boast.
10: For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

 

[Rafael]

People will always sin in their lives, but they cannot continue to willingly sin against the knowledge of the truth when they know it, and thus mock God with their lives.
These bodies are corrupt and we will receive new ones. Sin dwells within this flesh, and the Sprit that dwells within us never sins and battles against the sin of our flesh.Until we receive the new bodies,we are never free from the pressures of this strugle in our lives, and we can have victory over sin if we submit tothe Spirit.

1Jo 1:10 If we claim we have not sinned, we are calling God a liar and showing that his word has no place in our hearts.

Ga 6:7 Don’t be misled––you cannot mock the justice of God. You will always harvest what you plant.

Romans 7:8 And I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. I want to do what is right, but I can’t.
19 I want to do what is good, but I don’t. I don’t want to do what is wrong, but I do it anyway.
20 But if I do what I don’t want to do, I am not really the one doing wrong; it is sin living in me that does it.
21 I have discovered this principle of life––that when I want to do what is right, I inevitably do what is wrong.
22 I love God’s law with all my heart.
23 But there is another power within me that is at war with my mind. This power makes me a slave to the sin that is still within me.
24 Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death?
25 Thank God! The answer is in Jesus Christ our Lord. So you see how it is: In my mind I really want to obey God’s law, but because of my sinful nature I am a slave to sin.
1 ¶ So now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus.

Gal. 5:17 The sinful nature wants to do evil, which is just the opposite of what the Spirit wants. And the Spirit gives us desires that are the opposite of what the sinful nature desires. These two forces are constantly fighting each other, so you are not free to carry out your good intentions.

 

[Radagast]

I was told by a christian that once you get saved you will go to heaven no matter what. Lets say i became a christian asked jesus into my life and repented from sin but later in life i became a lustful sex addict and a alcoholic and died without recovering. Would i still go to heaven then? This question came to my mind soon as a christian told me you can't possibly earn eternal life no matter how good you are.

There are two answers that different Christians will give:

a) Even though you get saved you may still turn back to sin and not get to Heaven.

b) Once saved, always saved... but if you turned back to sin then you weren't really saved after all.

 

[ebia]

I was told by a christian that once you get saved you will go to heaven no matter what. Lets say i became a christian asked jesus into my life and repented from sin but later in life i became a lustful sex addict and a alcoholic and died without recovering. Would i still go to heaven then? This question came to my mind soon as a christian told me you can't possibly earn eternal life no matter how good you are.

Being saved isn't just a one-off event but a lifelong process.

 

[ILove2Worship]

I was told by a christian that once you get saved you will go to heaven no matter what. Lets say i became a christian asked jesus into my life and repented from sin but later in life i became a lustful sex addict and a alcoholic and died without recovering. Would i still go to heaven then? This question came to my mind soon as a christian told me you can't possibly earn eternal life no matter how good you are.

this has been an ongoing discussion in the church for years and years probably hundreds of years. there are simple ways to look at this...

we all know that God is a forgiving God and we need to repent of our sins. We know that so if God is forgiving and we repent, what would be the purpose of God being forgiving if we didnt need to repent?

In 1 Corinthians 6:9-1
"Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders [10] nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

That says it right there. God loves the homosexual but hates the homosexuality!

In 1 John 2:3-6 [3] We know that we have come to know him if we obey his commands. [4] The man who says, "I know him," but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in him. [5] But if anyone obeys his word, God's love is truly made complete in him. This is how we know we are in him: [6] Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did.(Emphasis added)

God knows our hearts and he knows we are not perfect by any stretch of anyone's imagination. That is why God is forgiving. That is why God says in the Bible that cast all your cares upon me. He died on the cross so we could have life and have it more abundantly.

It also, says in Acts 5:31
"God exalted Him to His own right hand as Prince and Savior that He might give repentance and forgiveness of sins to Isreal"

Just think of it this way since Heaven is a place of holiness than why would a drunkard go, why would a drug addict go, why would a homosexual couple go? They dont. God loves the sinner but hates the sin!

Hope I help

 

[sk8brdkd]

Well, I know w/o a doubt even Christians who backslide, I've heard so many times God Will Never Leave those Christians who have asked him into their heart

so, that means Christians who stay on the straight and narrow path their whole life as well as those who stray away, God Will NEVER leave ANY of his children once they ask him into their hearts.

So, once saved, Always saved bc God will NEVER break his promise once you ask him into your heart.

For me, God has confirmed in to my life over 30 times that IF, i EVER did backslide, his plan would work out no matter what, BUT, don't go there, You Want to stay w/ God Completely!!

Have Any of You EVER felt The Assurance of Salvation from God??

I got it. And I was told that God would be the ONLY 1 to break that covenant w/ me and he wouldn't Do that. God would never break that promise w/ me if I ever slid down lets say. His truth stays. His promise stays throughout All eternity.

And if Any of you have heard of Bonnie Ricks, from This Day's Thought or should i say This Days Devotional, she has given me all the verses in the bible that tell you that once you are saved, you NEVER Lose your salvation, that you are 100% saved for LIFE!! no matter what you're actions are After asking Christ into you're heart!!

Hope

 

[Zunalter]

Hmmm, that's an interesting question. I don't truly believe I can live life however I wish. I feel that if I sin, I am on bad footing with God and I need to make amends with Him. I cannot accept Him and live life my way. Because accepting Him is accepting His standards, and His rules. As soon as I have disobeyed one of those, I have sinned therefore rejected Him, as such I will be subject to condemnation. You cannot enter Heaven, without accepting the Lord as your saviour.

Digit

The only problem with this is that you are basically saying that only christians who live perfect lives will get to heaven (ie: nobody)

 

[Zunalter]

you NEVER Lose your salvation, that you are 100% saved for LIFE!! no matter what you're actions are After asking Christ into you're heart!!

Let's put this statement into context so we can understand it better. For one thing, those who TRULY accept Christ will never lose their salvation (notice the emphasis on truly). However, the Bible has told us the means by which we can tell whether someone has truly accepted Jesus as their savior:

Romans 6:1-2

1What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? 2By no means! We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?

I John 2:18-19

18Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come. This is how we know it is the last hour. 19They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their going showed that none of them belonged to us.

John 14:15 (Jesus speaking)

15"If you love me, you will obey what I command."

As you can see, there are definite fruits that someone who is truly saved will exhibit. In this age of easy-believeism, a lot of people have the wrong idea about salvation, and it shows by the way they live their lives. Do not be deceived: though Christians will make mistakes, those who truly love the Lord will always come back to the fold.

 

[calidog]

There are two answers that different Christians will give:

a) Even though you get saved you may still turn back to sin and not get to Heaven.

b) Once saved, always saved... but if you turned back to sin then you weren't really saved after all.

there is biblical support for (b)

1Jn 2:19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.

 

[Jeshu]

There are two answers that different Christians will give:

a) Even though you get saved you may still turn back to sin and not get to Heaven.

b) Once saved, always saved... but if you turned back to sin then you weren't really saved after all.

I think we are talking about something that is truly left better up to God. He knows what truly lives in our hearts.

If the Holy Spirit has sanctified our soul through the blood of Christ - who can take that way? With Him we have and are becoming loving and forgiving people. Yet if our hearts have not sought to love, forgive and witness about these things than such a soul is clearly unrepented - and does NOT have the knowledge/Spirit of Christ - however much theological knowlege such a person may have or however many 'good works' have been achieved. No individual good work will get us in Heaven but a Godly heart is this - that a person LOVES God and his/her neighbour such a person CANNOT perish for the imperishable seed dwells within them. Godly INDWELLING is what saves the sinner - Christ our Saviour - in Spirit.

I hope I make sense


Gerry.

 

[MikeMcK]

I was told by a christian that once you get saved you will go to heaven no matter what. Lets say i became a christian asked jesus into my life and repented from sin but later in life i became a lustful sex addict and a alcoholic and died without recovering. Would i still go to heaven then? This question came to my mind soon as a christian told me you can't possibly earn eternal life no matter how good you are.

The Bible does tell us that once we're saved, we cannot lose that salvation, but it also tells us that if we continue on in sin, then we weren't saved to begin with.

So, if you claimed to be saved and, yet, continued on in sin, then I don't believe you could make a Biblical case to have been saved in the first place.

When you're saved, the Bible says that you're dead to sin. It says that you're no longer a slave to sin, but a slave to Christ.

So, if you're saved, how can you go on living a lifestyle of willful disobedience and unrepentant sin?

 

[tapero]

Hi,

Once a person is saved they can never lose their salvation. Difficulties in understanding this due to not realizing there are different dispensations in the bible. We are now in the dispensation of grace.

13And you also were included in Christ when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. Having believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, 14who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God's possession—to the praise of his glory

redemption means salvation

We continue to sin as Christians, we have sin deeply rooted in our hearts and we sin outwardly as well. All do.

If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.

God bless,
tapero

 

[Shubunkin]

I was told by a christian that once you get saved you will go to heaven no matter what. Lets say i became a christian asked jesus into my life and repented from sin but later in life i became a lustful sex addict and a alcoholic and died without recovering. Would i still go to heaven then? This question came to my mind soon as a christian told me you can't possibly earn eternal life no matter how good you are.

Certainly you're saved for your entire life, as long as you repent of all of your sins. Repentence is required to receive salvation.

 

[DarkLegend28]

There are two answers that different Christians will give:

a) Even though you get saved you may still turn back to sin and not get to Heaven.

b) Once saved, always saved... but if you turned back to sin then you weren't really saved after all.

Yep... Pretty much.