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From: credmond@watmath.UUCP (Chris Redmond)
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Subject: Re: Acceptance of Christ as a saviour
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Date: Thu, 5-Dec-85 20:16:52 EST
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>
>Qs. 2
>      If it is right then there may be something wrong here.  Hitler may
>have decided to accept Christ during his last few days but does that mean he
>is forgiven for his sins ?

Presumably, yes.  

However . . . this belief does not mean that a person says "I'm sorry,"
God says "Well, that's okay then," and there is the end of it.

God is likely then to tell the person to get busy and make things right
with other human beings -- asking their forgiveness too, reconciling
quarrels, and (to take a very prosaic case) returning stolen money or
making it known that slanderous words were not true.

I admit that it boggles my imagination just what God might have told Hitler
to do, had Hitler in fact repented during the final days of the Second
World War, but I do not put it past God's ability to have come up with
something. Presumably the world would have known about it, and so I
infer (subject to correction some day!) that Hitler did not thus repent.

It is worth adding that there are Bible texts which shed a little light
on God's normal procedure in such a case; it seems to amount to telling
a sinner "Go and make things right with other human beings, and then will
be time enough to make things right with me."