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Christians believe that if a person dies and is not a believer then it is too late.

Read the story of Lazarus in The Bible, Luke 16:20-30, note verses 25 and 26,

Luk 16:25 But Abraham said, 'Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things; but now he is comforted and you are tormented.

Luk 16:26 And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, so that those who want to pass from here to you cannot, nor can those from there pass to us.'

Also note Hebrews chapter 9 verse 27

Heb 9:27 And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment,

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