Is Solomon in Hell or Heaven Today?

[Earth Wind and Fire]

Is this in reality a question about monotheism vs polytheism?

 

[Earth Wind and Fire]

Nah...it would be boring. RC Sproul, DA Carson, JI Packer, Albert Mohler, ....just about every pastor I can think of....made the same point when the "I died and saw heaven" books and movies came out. Most who never had read Revelation probably turned to chapter 20 anyway to check out their claims.

Good optimized word “probably”

 

[Scripture More Accurately]

Why are you asking this?

Because I have heard many wrongly claim that he is in hell today (for example, see the link that I posted in message #9). There are many important reasons why that conclusion is wrong.

 

[Scripture More Accurately]

Solomon apparently fell away from the faith when he started worshiping the pagan demon gods his outlandish wives led him to. Was he ever restored to repentance to return to the true faith in the only real God?

The Bible does not say that Solomon "fell away from the faith." In fact, it says that was not what happened:

1 Kings 11:4 For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father.

1 Kings 11:6 And Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and went not fully after the LORD, as did David his father.

Solomon never denied that Yahweh was God. It is true that he did not go fully after the LORD at that time, but the Bible does not say that he turned completely away from Yahweh.

 

[atpollard]

Who are you to judge the servant of another? To his own master he stands or falls; and he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand. - Romans 14:4 [NASB]

For He says to Moses, "I WILL HAVE MERCY ON WHOMEVER I HAVE MERCY, AND I WILL SHOW COMPASSION TO WHOMEVER I SHOW COMPASSION." So then, [it does] not [depend] on the [person] who wants [it] nor the one who runs, but on God who has mercy. - [Romans 9:15-16 NASB]

(It isn't about Solomon's faithfulness, it is about God's faithfulness.)

 

[kyredneck]

NASB]

(It isn't about Solomon's faithfulness, it is about God's faithfulness.)

ZACTLY!

 

[Van]

Solomon wrote Ecclesiastes, the Song of Solomon, most of the Book of Proverbs, and at least one Psalm. I do not believe that God used unregenerate people to write His holy word. His sins are troubling but I am sure that he is in heaven.

Just a side comment, the OT characters, who wrote the Old Testament were under the influence of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Christ. Scripture specifically precludes that any OT saint, chosen for salvation, was regenerated before Christ died. That is why they had to wait to be made perfect.

Therefore a person can be "inspired" and not be "regenerated." But the issue of the OP is still valid. Had Solomon been chosen to be saved, and thus heading for Abraham's bosom, before He could be "inspired?"

 

[37818]

Ephesians 4:8-10, Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.)

 

[Martin Marprelate]

Just a side comment, the OT characters, who wrote the Old Testament were under the influence of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Christ. Scripture specifically precludes that any OT saint, chosen for salvation, was regenerated before Christ died. That is why they had to wait to be made perfect.

Therefore a person can be "inspired" and not be "regenerated." But the issue of the OP is still valid. Had Solomon been chosen to be saved, and thus heading for Abraham's bosom, before He could be "inspired?"

I disagree. You are making far too much out of a single mention of " Abraham's bosom" in a parable which makes no comment as to what that bosom represents.

 

[Van]

I disagree. You are making far too much out of a single mention of " Abraham's bosom" in a parable which makes no comment as to what that bosom represents.

Yes, we disagree. But my post is NOT based only on the "single" mention of where OT saints were taken when they died. Jesus was the first, sequentially born from the dead. Thus the first, sequentially to be "regenerated" or brought to life. Evey born anew person followed Christ in the regeneration. No one was regenerated before Christ died providing the means of reconciliation.

Where are individuals regenerated, made alive? Together with Christ! Only those that receive Jesus, that believe in His name are caused to be born anew as children of God. When we were conceived, we were "made sinners" thus in a sinful state, spiritually separated from God, spiritually dead.
But when God caused us to be born anew, we were made alive together with Christ, having been transferred into His spiritual body.

I am sorry I seem to make too much of scripture, but God help me, here I stand. To borrow a phrase...