Servyn45, for an ex-Catholic you seem to support Catholicisms heretical teachings of salvation by works. Now, if you actually read and understand my one-line response to the opening post I posted "yes, if they repent for the right reason". The only right reason is faith in Jesus Christ, which can happen to anyone at any time before they die.
I don't support salvation by works, but I also don't support the idea that an evil person can be saved 1 minute before they die. The idea that a person can repent 1 minute before death and be saved is actually Christian tradition that is unsupported by scripture.
In your little equasion you forgot repantance, which takes a tad bit longer then 1 minute; there's also a chance upon repantance that later on you might stary away from the path and loose salvation.
Sorry but I don't consider people giving lip service to God 1 minute before they die repentance.
Paul Mccluskey asked a rhetorical question and you have chosen to allow your desire to judge those outside the body of Christ to over ride Biblical truth, which is we are "saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ". No person has brought up Hitler or any other historical figure that attempted to call their evil actions good; in fact you ignored the teaching found in the parable I posted.
I did not ignore anyhting, what you posted did not prove your point.
Matthew 20:1-16
20:1 "For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. 2 "And when he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius for the day, he sent them into his vineyard. 3 "And he went out about the third hour and saw others standing idle in the market place; 4 and to those he said,' You too go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you.' And so they went. 5 "Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did the same thing. 6 "And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing; and he said to them, 'Why have you been standing here idle all day long?' 7 "They said to him, 'Because no one hired us.' He said to them, 'You too go into the vineyard.' 8 "And when evening had come, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, 'Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last group to the first.' 9 "And when those hired about the eleventh hour came, each one received a denarius. 10 "And when those hired first came, they thought that they would receive more; and they also received each one a denarius. 11 "And when they received it, they grumbled at the landowner, 12 saying,' These last men have worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden and the scorching heat of the day.' 13 "But he answered and said to one of them, 'Friend, I am doing you no wrong; did you not agree with me for a denarius? 14'Take what is yours and go your way, but I wish to give to this last man the same as to you. 15'Is it not lawful for me to do what I wish with what is my own? Or is your eye envious because I am generous?' 16 "Thus the last shall be first, and the first last."
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Aineo those people WORKED in the vinyeard, they may have joined the labor at later times but that does not prove your point because according to you an evil person does not have to do ANY WORK or repentance all their lives since they can simply wait until they are in their death bed to start thinking about repentance.
We may not be saved by Good Works, but they are a sign of us being sanctified and of our repentance. Repentance comes first then Salvation, Not "Ohh gee I accepted Jesus as my Lord and Savior now I dont have to do anyhting because I am saved"
Don't think so, try again.