The Heaven Answer Book

Does anyone have the right to say who is and who isn’t going to Heaven?

O nly God knows our hearts and He alone has the right to judge who is genuinely saved or lost. The Bible says, “he will judge the world in righteousness and the peoples in his truth” (Psalm 96:13). God is the just and all-knowing judge, and we must never try to put ourselves in His place by saying that we know a particular person will be eternally lost or saved. None of us knows what happens between God and an individual. Even in the last breaths of life, someone can turn in faith to Christ and be saved. A reporter for a national magazine once confessed, “My grandmother didn’t accept Jesus as her Savior before she died, and she was the most perfect person I’ve ever known. I can’t imagine eternity without my grand mother, so since she died without forgiveness of sin, I will not repent either because I want to spend eternity

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