Does Everyone Have an Opportunity to Repent?

Welcome to the Rapid Bull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.

This is a ministry of striving for eternity. Does everybody have an opportunity to repent and put their faith in Jesus Christ?

You sometimes hear this argument worded as if someone in a tribal village in Africa doesn't know who

Jesus is and therefore they don't have an opportunity to believe in Christ.

However, what we see in Romans chapter 1 is that everybody knows

God. Everybody knows God exists. So there are without excuse.

So we have to recognize is, yes, everybody has an opportunity to repent and trust in Jesus Christ because they know

God. Even the atheist, well, they're actually a professing atheist, because they actually know, according to Romans 1, that God exists, but they suppress that truth in unrighteousness.

God has not only given us creation to realize He exists, He's not only given us a

God consciousness so we know that He exists, but He has given us a conscience so that we know right from wrong and know when we do wrong, we are out of favor with Him and must get right.

So yes, every time we sin, we feel that guilt, and that is an opportunity of the

Holy Spirit working on us to bring us to repentance. But some resist, and some do not.

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