Christianity - A Journey from Facts to Fiction — Page 28
28 Christianity – A Journey from Facts to Fiction sorts of beastly crimes against humanity, provided that they believe in Jesus Christ as in their dying moments. What of the incalculable debt they owe to their tormented victims? Do a few moments of Jesus as in hell seem sufficient to purge them of their long lives of unpunished heinous guilt, which stretch for genera- tion after generation? Punishment Continues to be Meted Out Let us now consider a different, more serious, category of crime, the consequences of which human nature simply cannot accept to be transferable. For instance, someone mercilessly abuses a child and even rapes and murders him or her. Human sensibilities would no doubt be violated to an unbearable degree. Suppose such a person continues to cause similar and greater suffering all around him without ever being caught and brought to justice. Having lived his life of crime unpunished by human hands, he closes in upon death but determines to elude even the greater punishment of the Judgement Day and suddenly decides, at last, to have faith in Jesus Christ as as his saviour. Would all his sins suddenly melt into nothingness and would he be left to glide into the other world free of sin like a newborn baby? Perhaps such a one who defers his belief in Jesus as till the time of death proves to be much wiser than the one who believes earlier in life. There always remained for the latter a danger of committing sins after belief and falling prey to the devil’s designs and insinuations. Why not wait till death is close upon you, thereby giving the devil little chance and time to rob you of your faith in Jesus as ? A free life of