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[Norse God]

Do you believe that people will be offered a final chance to accept God after their death?

Is there any evidence for this in the Bible? Thanks!

[jimwalton]

No. There is never in the Bible any indication ever that there will be second chances after death.

Luke 13.22-29:

22 Then Jesus went through the towns and villages, teaching as he made his way to Jerusalem.23 Someone asked him, “Lord, are only a few people going to be saved?”
He said to them, 24 “Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to. 25 Once the owner of the house gets up and closes the door, you will stand outside knocking and pleading, ‘Sir, open the door for us.’
“But he will answer, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from.’
26 “Then you will say, ‘We ate and drank with you, and you taught in our streets.’
27 “But he will reply, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from. Away from me, all you evildoers!’
28 “There will be weeping there, and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves thrown out. 29 People will come from east and west and north and south, and will take their places at the feast in the kingdom of God.30 Indeed there are those who are last who will be first, and first who will be last.”

Hebrews 9.27:

"Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment,"

J.I. Packer writes, regarding the term "once" in the above verse:

"Hapax ('once') would indicate an unrepeatable event. After that we reap what we sowed. How a just-dead person’s perceptions differ from what they were before is more than we have been told. But Scripture says nothing of God taking the initiative in our salvation triggering postmortem conversions, and, that being so, we should conclude that the unbeliever’s lack of desire for Christ, God, and heaven remains unchanged. So for God to extend the offer of salvation beyond the moment of death, even for 30 seconds, would be pointless. Nothing would come of it."