Susan Atkins made peace with God about her horrific crimes many decades ago, as she received His forgiveness, and gave her heart to Christ, believing in the death of Jesus on the Cross for her sin (just as each of us must do to stand righteous before God one day at the end of our earthly lives). I don’t have an opinion about whether she should be released to die at home or not. But I DO know about her faith, and that she has impacted many for the Lord over her lifetime.
For those in here who claim the name of Jesus as your Savior, perhaps we should recall the long list of “saints” in Scripture whom God used in powerful ways to completely change the world — and to offer up as examples of the power of His redemption through the blood of Christ for our sin.
Let us remember Moses, who led the people of Israel out of Egypt, and who contributed to the leadership of God’s people in ways that changed all of history. Moses was a murderer, and was “on the run” for decades without ever being brought to earthly justice.
King David, the man whom God Himself called “a man after My own heart” methodically and deliberately had his right hand man murdered just to marry his beautiful, sexy wife, Bathsheba.
A man named Saul (later became the Apostle Paul) tortured and participated in the brutal murders of scores of Christians in the 1st century, just because they dared to follow Christ and name His name as their own. Saul was a mass murderer, and was never executed for his crimes (thank the Lord). He became a godly, faithful leader of the Church Age, and endured unjust imprisonment numerous times himself, along with many other hardships, as he proclaimed Christ to all the known world at that time. Yet he knew he remained “the chief of all sinners”, and he understood his place at the foot of the Cross, where his sin was washed away.
Several of the Manson family members (Charles Watson, and Susan Atkins in particular) have had their lives also changed by the power of Christ through believing on the Lord Jesus through repentence by faith. This God we Christians serve is no respector of persons — He is the same yesterday, today and forever.
Just a wee reminder of how we who are believers need to be so very careful that we speak according to God’s Word in terms of those for which this earth might want to cast away as unredeemable. But for the grace of God, we are THEM.
Yours is a good post, adopt4Christ.
But, if she is truly right with God, then it doesn’t matter where she dies, as far as He is concerned, and it really shouldn’t matter to her, either.
We all sin, and fall far short of the goal. Some of us fall shorter than others, but this doesn’t matter in God’s eye. I say she should stay in prison, to pay for her sin here on earth.
I hope that her family will be able to visit her in her final days here on earth, and that she doesn’t suffer any more than her victims did.
I do trust in Him to make straight our human wrongs, and if we are being cruel to demand that she serve her earthly sentence, then I have faith that He will set it right.
Keep her in prison, as a message to others who might be so deluded as to follow her path.
I agree with much of what you say, but have to correct you. Paul was ultimately executed in Rome. He counted it “all joy” to be in prison, and suffer.
I am thrilled that Ms Atkins knows Jesus Christ. He will be her comfort, she doesn’t need her family and friends. Her sins are forgiven, and her debt paid in God’s Kingdom. But, like Karla Faye Tucker, her debt to our society must be paid.
Justice is served by her serving out her sentence.
Then it’s up to God to forgive them.
God has forgiven her... fine. But she must pay Caesar’s price - her temporal punishment remains. But hopefully she’s set for eternity.
You’ve got to be kidding.
Let’s just forgive everyone for everything.
Good lord.
Your’s is not the message I got from the Bible....the whole Bible.
What denomination are you guys?