Whar About the Scumbags of This World?

I have been asked that if I believe that Jesus died for EVERY sin EXCEPT for the sins of murder and suicide, then will there be the worse scumbags in heaven?  I think it’s an interesting question depending on your definition of a “scumbag.”  I think the lowest on the food chain are child molesters and rapists.  And among them are robbers and thieves.  Then there are the politicians of the world. Some businesspeople aren’t too far behind.  I COULD say that EVERYONE in some form or another is a scumbag since we ARE ALL worthy of death.  But then everyone can name his or her own scumbags of the world.

            If I confine my comments to just rapists and child molesters, then I leave out people like Bernie Madoff and perhaps a number of corrupt politicians and even businesspeople.  But depending on whom one is calling a “scumbag” I would say this about God’s judgment of ALL scumbags:  It’s just going to be that much harder for them to get into heaven.  Anyone capable of being a scumbag in just about any form is either capable of murder or perhaps has even murdered without anyone knowing about it, or they are suicidal and can’t live with their sins.  We simply don’t know whether ANY given scumbag we can think of can live with his or her sins or is capable of murder.

            Prisons can be incredibly violent places.  We don’t know whether in prison one would kill others to defend himself or whether one would be placed on a suicide watch at any given time.  We simply don’t know the future of ourselves let alone a scumbag of the world.  I would simply say that the more of a scumbag a person is, the harder it will be for him or her to get into heaven.  I won’t judge for God.  Some people who have taken human life have turned out to be good citizens of the world.  But the fact is that NOTHING anyone can do to bring salvation back once one has taken a human life.  Anyone who has committed suicide will NOT be in heaven.  But it isn’t for ANYONE to judge except God Himself.  My response about ANY scumbag is that it’s just going to be that much more difficult for them to get into heaven.  The less one is a scumbag, the less one has to worry about his or her salvation.

I believe the parable of the cloth and the wineskin illustrate this perfectly.  It’s found in Matthew 9:16-17.  There ARE sins God will NOT forgive.  One can’t put a piece of new cloth on an old cloak and make it new.  One can’t put new wine into an old wineskin and make it new.  Once one has taken a human life, there is NOTHING one can do to regain his or her salvation.  Now, there will be those who will say to me that this is MY interpretation of this parable.  I will remind the gentle reader that I interpret the parables with the understanding from Mark 4:13 that ALL the parables say the same thing.  My Angels told me that Jesus died for EVERY sin EXCEPT for the sins of murder and suicide.  Once one has taken a human life, one has lost his or her salvation for ALL eternity and there is NOTHING one can do to get it back.  Yes, there will be scumbags in heaven, but then that would include the rest of us in some form or another.  Some people are just worse scumbags than the rest of us.  Peace.  Brother Ralphie for The Angels of Life Institute.