Carl Sagan was an athiest.....God does not allow sin in His presence.....therefore he burns in Hell...Hades...the Underworld...whatever.......
When his disciples heard
it, they were exceedingly amazed, saying, Who then can be saved? But Jesus beheld
them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but
with God all things are possible.
And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem. And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven:
who before was speaking evil, and persecuting, and insulting, but I found kindness, because, being ignorant,
I did it in unbelief,
Did God make it possible or did Paul make it possible? Why was it made possible? Did Paul change his mind and decide he wanted to go to work for the Lord?
Maybe we should ask the potter.