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Can sociopaths enter the Kingdom of Heaven?

For anyone non-religious, please conduct this as a thought experiment. I understand that heaven isn't real to a lot of people.

Sociopaths are people who feel no guilt or remorse for anything they've done. They are indifferent to any pain, suffering, or hurt they've caused others, from telling a girl she's gained weight all the way to serial murder. Any empathy they extend is a false mask to manipulate others into gratifying their self interest. In other words, they can never be repentant. Ever. They cannot be trained to be repentant, they cannot even understand the concept.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Great question. I know a pastor who was a sociopath, believe it or not. He exploited women in his congregation over and over again without remorse. But it begs the question, do we need to feel guilt, be convicted of the Spirit, and repent? Or -- did Jesus save the whole world? Is being born again an individual experience, or a covenantal fact? (old covenant to new covenant) And does the Bible words for the 1st century Christians (believe and be baptized) apply to us living today? Consider that they were in the midst of 2 covenants from 30-70CE, and those who chose to go back to the old ways (Mosaic temple rituals) would be left in the city during the Roman seiges, and would suffer the fate of Jerusalem.

    Jesus, the Savior of all men, especially those that believe." - I Timothy 4:10

    "As in Adam all died, so in Christ, will all be made alive." - I Cor 15:22

    "But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God's grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many!" - Romans 5:15

  • 5 years ago

    Perhaps the more important question is why people insist on judging others in this way. The Pharisees' 'hypocritical' act was the refusal to allow Roman 'pagan' practices such as emperor worship into Judaism. The harder you insist on repeating these very old untruths, rooted in 1st century political propaganda, the more you weaken the entire case for Christianity. The texts aren't accurate in their depictions of the Pharisees. It's time to stop repeating them.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    well didn't the psychotic in charge mass murder the entire planet according to the xtian holy book---didn't he want a dad to kill his kid--according to the book didn't he have his own kid murdered? Clearly I'd think sociopathic personalities would be welcome in the xtian heaven--birds of a feather thing.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    They'll fit right in with God. He killed the whole world in a flood, and felt justified in doing it.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Here is who will enter the kingdom of heaven:

    John 3:3 (New International Version)

    3In reply Jesus declared, "I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.[a]"

  • 1 decade ago

    People who tell the Truth will always enter Heaven.

    If she is fat then she is fat.

  • 1 decade ago

    When it comes to disorders such as those.....it is hard to say.....God knows our hearts individually.

  • 1 decade ago

    They can be healed of this illness and then be saved.

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