Gone Fishin’ Field Report – Online Evangelism 5/4/23
He told me he would go to hell because he was a bad dude. He said he had shot someone, and they were in hospital. He waved a couple of guns around to prove his point.
He told me he would go to hell because he was a bad dude. He said he had shot someone, and they were in hospital. He waved a couple of guns around to prove his point.
I asked him how much of his hell punishment did Jesus take? He said 100%. So how sure can you be that you will go to heaven? He said "It should be 100%, but ...I don't know. I want to go to heaven, but..."
I asked when was that going to happen? He said when he was on his deathbed. I used his accident as an example – if he had another one from which he didn’t wake up from, where would he go? He said hell. Then said that right now would be the best time to transfer his trust from himself to Christ.
I told him about someone taking his hell punishment for him. God could let him go because someone else paid his hell punishment for him. He sighed, raised his eyebrows, and said that he knew what I was going to say next, and politely left the conversation.
*POST UPDATED* I asked her why she was yelling at us. She just repeated the last line over again. So I asked her if she was a good person. She said yes, she was good and did good things. I asked her if she lied. She yelled "Why are you asking me these questions?" I said that we were concerned that she would not make it to heaven. Again she yelled "I don't care!"
So I asked him did he know when he was going to die? He said he didn’t know. So I asked him when would be the best time to place your faith in Christ? He said straight away. But he wasn’t going to do it, because he didn’t want to give up his Muslim faith.
If nice people went to heaven, he would have been front of the queue. It’s a shame that niceness and goodness count for nothing in God’s eyes!
I asked him how sure he was that he was going to heaven when he died, and he said 85% sure! This concerned me, so I asked him what about the other 15%. He said he didn't know, there was still so much to learn. I had to ask him how much of his hell punishment did Jesus take for him. He said all of it. I asked where does someone go if Jesus takes 100% of their hell punishment? He said heaven. So how sure can you be that you will go to heaven when you die? He said 100%
He said "You're making so much sense. You're blowing my mind right now. It makes sense that for me to go free, someone would have to pay the debt I can't pay".
He admitted that he would end up in hell because of all the laws he had broken. He understood that God had every right to throw him in hell. I explained how Jesus paid his hell punishment, and he looked relieved.