Short Answer:

Yes, if he had repented and accepted Jesus Christ as his Savior and Lord.

“because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” Romans 10:9 

Long Answer:

First off, the question can be asked disingenuously. The question is packed with a lot of emotion, using a very real person who caused horrible harm to millions of people. However, the questions generally boil down to this:

Can someone sin so much they can’t be forgiven?

The answer to that question is no. There is nothing we can think, nothing we can say, and nothing we can do to separate ourselves from God’s forgiveness. We can never be “too far gone” that He can’t save us.

“as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.” Pslam 103:12 

We see this play out time and time again in the Bible. God constantly uses flawed, sinful, and messed up people to do the greatest good for His kingdom. Let’s take Paul, for example. Paul was a Jew who oversaw the deaths of countless Christians. He caused unimaginable harm to the early Christian church. Many Christians probably feared him and would have never imagined the fact that God could use him for His glory, even in their wildest dreams. Paul oversaw MURDERS. He committed serious sins against others and against God, and he knew that he did.

“The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost.” 1 Timothy 1:15 

God still saved Him anyway.

Jesus Christ died so that Paul could find faith in Him and spread the Gospel across the world. Jesus Christ died so that ANYONE who recognizes that they are sinful, messed up, and imperfect, can find healing in the one who is sinless, holy, and perfect: Jesus.

 What Does This Have to Do With Me?

Well, for starters, it means that you are never too far in sin that God can’t find you and save you. As someone who has struggled with temptation and addiction to sin, someone who has felt like there is no way I could stop my sinful lifestyle even if I wanted to, God doesn’t see me that way. He sent His son to die so that my sins would be removed from me, and they wouldn’t count against me. I’m never too far gone from God, but there’s also nothing that I could do in my own power to make myself “better” before I came to faith in Christ.

“But now thus says the LORD, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine.” Isaiah 43:1

God has called us BY NAME, to follow him. That means even when we stumble, even when we sink back into that sin that never seems to go away, God is standing right beside us, holding out His hand, waiting for you to take it so He can lead you in His grace.

The second point is for those who think they are pretty good. I used to be this way for a long time. On the outside, I felt like I portrayed myself as the perfect person. I rarely got angry. I went to church. I told people I read my Bible. I would silently listen when the pastor talked about repentance and think about who in my life needed to hear that lesson.

My heart was dead.

I am sinful; I am messed up. I’m no better than the drug addict who lives on the street. I’m no better than the career criminal who’s in prison for life. I’m no better than the worst person in history because we’ve all fallen short of the standard of Heaven, which is perfection. Just look at the Ten Commandments and ask yourself if you’ve ever broken any of them. Chances are we break a lot of them a lot.

The miracle is that’s not how the story ends.

“For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 6:23

Everybody sins. Everybody deserves death. So the finger-pointing of “he deserves it more” doesn’t work because we’re all broken. We all need a savior. We all need Jesus.

Once we are saved, the same principles hold true. In Romans 6:23, Paul calls salvation a “free gift” that we do nothing to receive. How rude is it for someone to brag about receiving a gift they didn’t earn or deserve?

So why do we Christians do the same thing?

We are not better than non-believers, and the more we keep acting like we are, the more people are going to turn away from the church because they think it is filled with hypocrites. We cannot be hypocrites; we must be vessels of Christ.

“For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.” Ephesians 2:8–9 ESV

When God saves everybody, it’s not our works we’re looking at, it’s not our sins we’re judging each other by, it’s God’s grace, which is equally applied to all who believe in Him. This is total equality under God in terms of our good works and sin.

“There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” Galatians 3:28 ESV

Where Do We Go From Here?

We need to stop guarding the secret to eternal life and start sharing it with those around us. We Christians can get so caught up in what other people think about us that we neglect to share the Gospel. That’s a tragedy. Let us have the boldness of the apostles to share with a friend or family member who may be struggling. We need to be the light of Christ in a dark world. Christ died for the worst person you can imagine; He died for the best person you can imagine. There’s no reason we shouldn’t be totally sold out on proclaiming his message of salvation and repentance.

Everybody can be used to share the message of Jesus. Everyone can be called to repentance. Even a Jew who persecuted countless Christians. Even a career criminal on death row. Even a white-collar worker struggling to make ends meet. Even the worst person in the world.

Even you and me.