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Does a lifestyle of repetitive sin mean you won't go to heaven?

The short answer to this question is yes. I am not hear to give you a detailed quality answer to this question, but because all human beings struggle with sin, the better question should be why do I sin so much? If Christians are the only ones going to heaven, the us on the other side have nothing to worry about, because God won't judge us, only his elected. Non-Christians are predestined for hell as Calvin taught, so why would anyone who is not saved in their right mind, try to be good enough to God to go to Heaven if they were (as Calvin taught) destined for hell? Unless, non-Christians are saved, then the whole Christian religion is in vain, because if sin sends anyone to hell and Christians openly admit that they have sinned, (Romans 3:23 NIV) "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God", then no one is going to Heaven.

The question to ask is why is it that Christians, who were once like us sinners, have been saved and the rest of mankind is going to hell? And why is God partial to some, and impartial to others. Romans 2:11 ESV  For God shows no partiality. For double predestination to be true, God would have to show partiality to a part of the human race, which He clearly doesn't, then that would mean that the doctrine of double predestination is wrong. If God predestines some to Heaven and some to Hell man would not have free will, which is precisely what some Calvinists believe! The only way that a man can choose God is with free will, but if that choice is taken away so are the rewards of Heaven, and the punishment's of hell. Man can only suffer for what he has chosen or rejected, which leaves plenty of room for free will for how can a man choose good if he is destined to choose evil. The fact than unregenerate man chooses good, tells us that there is free will, and if there is free will then all must repent and be saved. 

 Those who are damned then are those who abuse their free will and choose to sin over the good that God requires all men to achieve. Christians only are no longer destined for Heaven, all mankind has a real opportunity to align their will to the will of God, so what makes a person a new creation, are those humans who not only believe the Gospel, but practise it. But practising love of God and love of neighbour requires the Grace of God, which then becomes available to all human beings who want to go to Heaven. 

Up untill the point of death, the human must choose God's will over evil even then in order to reach Heaven, so just knowing about salvation doesn't mean that you will go to God after you die? What determines your judgement is your whole life, and if you constantly and knowingly hated other human beings while you were alive (and chose that evil instead of the good,) then you will not be forgiven. However if you are a person of Good will, and unknowingly choose evil because of sin then you will be forgiven. If you knowingly choose sin over God, the book of Hebrews says you will die without mercy. (Hell) Hebrews 10:26 NIV If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, (and Hebrews 10:28-31 NIV) Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29How much more severely do you think someone deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified them, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace? 30For we know him who said, “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,”d and again, “The Lord will judge his people.”e 31It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.



This is Mike. 

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