What If You Had Been Born Hitler???

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Originally Posted by MissBrattified

Anyone who kills thousands of people is going to become notorious because of their deeds.

Hitler was born a human being just like the rest of us, faced with the same choices as many others born in the same era, in the same culture. Many others chose good instead of evil, which leaves Hitler without an excuse.

Hitler could have chosen good, and when he chose evil, he could have chosen later to repent. As far as we know, he did neither.

He wasn't born helplessly evil. He was born with a choice. Therefore, God will hold him responsible for his choices, just as He does us.

Hitler was not unsavable. He could have chosen to repent. Did he? I don't know. It doesn't appear that he did.

It's the same as Peter and Judas--both betrayed Christ, but Peter repented, and Judas was either too proud to repent, or didn't have enough faith in the grace of God to repent. Either way--one repented and was forgiven, and another died without repenting. Basically the same sin, two different results.

Hitler did not have a choice, because of all the circumstances that surrounded his life he could not have been anyone other than who he became, anymore that you are I can be other than who we are. That anyone is saved out of sin and evil is a gift from God and is not because of how good we are, or what great choices we make.

(Ep. 2:6-7) HE made us to sit in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come HE might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

We are not robots, however we are placed in time and space as God purposes. We have free will within the boundaries of who we are, we cannot be other than who and how God made and placed us. We will be apart of God's elect in this world only as God purposes.