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1 | Did Uzzah has given chance to repent | Num 4:15 | Emmaus | 94115 | ||
Johnny, Only God knows the answer to your question. It is not to be found in any passage of scripture. Everyone is not guarenteed the oppourtunity to repent. Scripture only says that if your repent God will forgive. It does not say you will get the chance. David in 1 Chronicles 15 attributes the incident to God's anger that Levites were not transporting the Ark as they should have. But that still does not answer your specific question about Uzzah. 1 Chronicles 13: 10-12 Then the LORD became angry with Uzzah and struck him; he died there in God's presence, because he had laid his hand on the ark. David was disturbed because the LORD'S anger had broken out against Uzzah. Therefore that place has been called Perez-uzza even to this day. David was now afraid of God, and he said, "How can I bring the ark of God with me?" 1 Chronicles 15:11-15 David summoned the priests Zadok and Abiathar, and the Levites Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel, and Amminadab, and said to them: "You, the heads of the levitical families, must sanctify yourselves along with your brethren and bring the ark of the LORD, the God of Israel, to the place which I have prepared for it. Because you were not with us the first time, the wrath of the LORD our God burst upon us, for we did not seek him aright." Accordingly, the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the LORD, the God of Israel. The Levites bore the ark of God on their shoulders with poles, as Moses had ordained according to the word of the LORD. Emmaus |
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2 | Did Uzzah has given chance to repent | Num 4:15 | Aixen7z4 | 94425 | ||
You said, "Everyone is not guarenteed the oppourtunity to repent". How, in your mind, does that square with Acts 17:30? There we are told that "God ... commandeth all men every where to repent". If that verse does not say that everyone has a chance (more than that, a responsibility, to repent) then we may be following a doctrine which says that some people are predestined for hell. If that is the case, then forther reasoning here is pointless and God is partial. It should be said, though, that there are some who believe God is not partial. "For there is no respect of persons with God" (Romans 2:11). "Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons" (Acts 10:34). You are correct in saying that there is no scripture saying "Uzzah had/no chance to repent". But if one recalls that a chance is given to all men everywhere, we can reasonably conclude that that chance had been given to Uzzah. But chances run out. God will not always strive with man. That is why it says, "Now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation". And again, "To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts". I wonder if Uzzah passed up his opportunities and prepared instead to argue. |
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3 | Did Uzzah has given chance to repent | Num 4:15 | Emmaus | 94436 | ||
Aixen, We just don't know all the details on Uzzah other than the one incident recounted. It certainly is a sobering and cautionary story. Let me pose you a question. It is real life, happens often. A murderer who is killed by the police during the commission of his crime. Did that person have an oppourtunity to repent? Yes, long before he committed that last sin, but perhaps not after his last sin, because he dies in the very act of committing it. Maybe he or Uzzah repented in the last fraction of a second of life and God forgave them, but only God knows. As C.S. Lewis said od his Godlike charater Aslan: "He is not a tame Lion." Emmaus |
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4 | Did Uzzah has given chance to repent | Num 4:15 | Aixen7z4 | 94445 | ||
Has this question never been answered? I have heard it asked this way: Suppose I am saved (I have repented and trusted in Christ) and I lived a good life for sixty years, and I die right after telling a little white lie, does that mean I still go to hell? The truth is that salvation takes care of all of our sins: past, present, future. (Or I may say Christ does, the moment we trust in him). Thus, we have no reason to think that Uzzah went to hell even though he died immediately after commiting a sin. 1Cointhians 5:5 says specifically that a person may suffer "destruction of the flesh" and yet "the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus". We do not know that Uzzah went to heaven either. It depends on whether he had repented earlier. |
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5 | Did Uzzah has given chance to repent | Num 4:15 | Emmaus | 94452 | ||
Are you really comparing a "white lie" with murder as morally equivalent? | ||||||