if you die suddenly do you still have a chance to repent?

Answer 1

Our higher power (regardless of our religion) knows are hearts. It is all based on your heart. Did you act maliciously in your life, or make a few bad choices but learn from them? Did you try and struggle, or did you act as selfishly as possible?

I believe that's what our higher power looks at. Our intentions.

Answer 2

Since most people don't plan on dying, it probably seems sudden to almost everyone, whether it really is sudden or not. I don't know if people get a chance to repent after death, but I'm thinking not. We all know the chance for sudden death is out there, and we all know we are eventually going to die somehow anyway. So if someone is going to repent, then I suppose there really is no time like the present.

Answer 3

I am Catholic. So we believe that, yes you do have a chance to repent, through Purgatory. We have a loving God. If you should suddenly die so quick that you don't even know what hit you. Our God loves us enough to give us the chance of repentance. If you have any questions on Purgatory or would like to do some research on it. Go to your browser, type in: Catholic Doctrine on Purgatory. There is a lot of good information to be found there.

Answer 4

How can you repent if you are already dead and died suddenly?...... as for the dead , they are concious of nothing at all, neither do they anymore have wages, because the remembrance of them has been forgotten. also their love and hate and their jealousy have already perished and they have no portion anymore to time indefinite in anything that has to be done under the sun...Ecclesiastes 9:5-6. Only God knows if you will be ressurected in the last days.

Answer 5

Actually, yes.

Since the Bible itself says, "The wages of sin IS DEATH." That means when you die, you PAY FOR YOUR SINS AT DEATH. This means, at death, YOU ARE SINLESS, because of the fact you DIED!

The apostles stated in the New Testament at Acts 26:230, "that the Christ was to suffer and, as the first to be resurrected from the dead, he was going to publish light both to this people and to the naitons."

Also at Colossians 1:18 it says "and he is the head of the body, the congregation. He is the beginning, the first-born from the dead, that he might become the one who is first in all things;"

So here we find that Christ was THE FIRST to be resurrected from the dead, meaning that everyone who came before him WERE STILL IN THE GRAVE, otherwise he would not be the first-born from the dead.

God and Christ Jesus then promise a 1,000 year free of Satan time after the Great Tribulation in Revelation, Ch. 20. During this 1,000 years people will be resurrected who never got to know God, those before and after Christ, taught to know him and then tested by their faith at the end of the 1,000 years when they too have reached perfection as Adam, Eve and Christ were, for ONE LAST TIME. Then Satan is destroyed Forever.

Answer 6

Of course not unless you are dying, but would that really be repentance? Or would it really be mocking God?But you may say, there are many Mocking God now. While that is true,it does not mean that Almighty God will allow that to go on for ever! Yet some might think so, but they are mistaken, even though I have heard people say they are not scared, and yes they may not be scared right now, but that does not mean that they never will be scared!(Galatians6:7)I your repentance is to be accepted by Almighty God, the time to repent is right now, not when you might be dying, if you don't care now, that is too bad because repenting when you are dying may not be accepted by God as it would not come from your heart and only be a lastr ditch only to save yourself in which case it will not be accepted by God forhe is not one tpo be mocked(Galatians6:7)

Answer 7

Although this is more of a religious issue, I believe I have read about salvation after death. Although I myself am Atheist, and don't have a religion, I'm sure that depending on the feelings in your heart then your God may, or may not, give you a second chance.

Answer 8

no count number at the same time as or how we die, we may be able to have a load of unrepented sins on us. it really is the way we are as sinful creatures. God isn't status there like a bureaucrat with a clipboard, counting them up. What concerns God is our relationship with him, and the state of our hearts in the route of him. imagine of a figure with little ones. you do not forged out a baby who has purely damaged a plate, teased the canines, pronounced as his brother names, and forgotten to convey residing house his homework task. If the youngster loves you, and is sorry for being this style of headache to you, and needs to do better effective, you'll take him on your heart. So he apologized for the plate, yet forgot to make an apology for the canines -- who's going to nitpick? yet think the youngster in question is an adolescent who extremely would not care beans for you, who has completely written you out of his existence, yet who's sufficiently previous and crafty adequate to understand the right words to say, to make manipulative apologies if he needs something. Do those fake repentances mean a lot, if the middle isn't with them? do not hassle about preserving "score" on you sins and penances. concentration on turning your heart to God, and concentrate on the loving relationship. it truly is what concerns. Then, at the same time as that bus hits you, it gained't count number that you forgot to make an apology for teasing the canines. Your figure will be satisfied to convey jointly you in, if the affection is there.

Answer 9

The time to do that would be now,especially since it is on your mind.My wife passed away suddenly and I hope that she made her peace with God.After that I started thinking and praying more often.We are still here,so their is time.Take care.

Answer 10

well obviously not. if you just die out of nowhere, how can you still have time to repent? what people should do, is that they should just repent when they are alive. after having a disastourous life, it is dumb to repent. people are scared from death and hell, but they dont do anything to avoid hell when they are alive.