re: What would you tell the dying man?

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Accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and repent

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What do you mean by repent? Are you suggesting he stop sinning in his last 60 seconds?

He repents when he changes his mind from some of the stuff mentioned in this thread (baptism, good works, etc.) to believing on Jesus and him alone for salvation.

Tell him
I bet I know where you got dem shoes.

I’m not sure if death bed confessions are as simple and sure as everyone makes them out to be, If you don’t really have faith and trust in God I don’t think it matters. So, I would just ask if he had a message for a loved one and promise to pass it on.

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He'll find out if heaven/hell is real before we do.

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I’ve wondered about this…If we aren’t judged until the second coming, how do we receive our punishment or reward beforehand?

We all know about the thief at the cross and the story of Lazarus and the rich man, we all know that Paul in Philippians 1:23 desires “to depart and be with Christ, for that is very much better.” And these passages are what we base our idea of how it all works. However, I never thought the most direct explanation 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18 came across that way.

But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. Therefore encourage one another with these words.

I sometimes think the scripture kept the mechanics of the afterlife a mystery, perhaps intentionally.

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You walk outside and you see a man on the side of the road with only 60 seconds left to live, and he asks you “What must I do to make sure that I go to Heaven?”




What do you tell him?

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That there ain't no heaven and he had better lived life while alive instead of waiting to live it up in heaven. That would take up most of the poor bastards 60 seconds.

Interesting take.


I just looked that up, as I never heard of it before.

Lots of disagreement surrounding that writing, outside of the Catholic denomination.

Thanks for posting.

" Looks like you won't be needing them new boots anymore."

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16 know that a person is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.

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That doesn't say what you think it says.

It says just doing good will not get you to heaven, it takes faith, however the bible also says that faith without works is dead.

HOWEVER the question was what you would say. And to this there is no wrong answer, because the answer would always be true, it's what the person is saying they would say. Because we were asked, What would you tell the dying man?, not what do you consider the best thing to say.

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I was replying to the poster that said he would bring up the man's good deeds to him in his last 60 seconds. I was emphasizing that doing this would not do him any good.

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Then you tagged the wrong person... because you replied to me... otherwise I wouldn't have wasted my time correcting you.

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Because they each tell a different story, each one different and not agreeing, unless you combine them and create your own expanded edition. But then you'd no longer have 4 independent accounts and something that you can not definitively say all (4) would agree with.

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It's not that they disagree, it's just that that they are telling of the event from the authors perspective 30+ years later. Of course they are going to emphasis difference things. The fact that there is significant overlap in agreement between the events are more direct proof that they happened.

ETA: Also, if a bedside conversion isn't enough time to truly be saved, what interval of time is sufficient? 1 hour? 1 Day? 1 Year?

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It’s easier to believe we are all so helpless toward sins and the big pez dispenser is the sky has issued some blanket pardon.

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I don't know any Christians that (helpless) believe that.

Of course, we sin, but just using Jesus as a "blanket pardon" isn't typically taught when we sin purposefully.

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Good time with Lent right around the corner.

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Absolutely.