irvinehomeowner said:So just like I feel that non-Christians can somehow get into heaven, so can people who commit suicide.
But here is the question, one can argue that by committing suicide you have lost your faith in God or no longer believe in Him, so what point in time can you profess "faith" and "repentance"?
How do you repent for your sins after you killed yourself? And if you say that you can in spirit after you die, then the same can be said in "faith" in Jesus for non-Christians after they die.
There are 2 kinds of repentances.
1. The repentance of your sinful nature before God
2. The repentance of your daily mistakes
The list number 1 technically can be done only once in your life time. It's not to say you can't do more than once, but what matters is that you have acknowledged your sin and short coming of the perfect holiness, which is required for you to be saved, before God. That means you admit that you deserve to go hell. But by putting yourself on what Jesus had already done, which He died in place of you, you're having a faith that your life on your own no longer is measured before God but now Jesus' status is your own status. That is the ONLY way to be saved. A simple example would be a woman is married to her husband and now she has his last name. In that sense, they are "one." The same thing of our relationship to Christ, we have Jesus as our husband and we have His status, which is that "perfect holiness." This is the only thing that is required for someone to go to heaven or to be saved. This is the true repentance.
While we are saved, we still live our daily lives and fall into mistakes, sometimes even sinning against God until Christ returns and sets His Kingdom. That's where we do the list number 2. We pray and ask God for forgiveness daily. Though this is not a real requirement for someone to be "saved," a real saved person would do so since he/she acknowledges God knows and sees everything.
@IHO, what do you mean by "non-Christians can somehow get into heaven?" Can you please explain further on this?