What Is The Unpardonable Sin?

Wow, I hope someone reads my post.



When I was 13, I accepted Christ. I don't think I truly believed like I should have, but I did believe. I know the Holy Spirit was in my life. So, I grew and went to church, but never had that all encompassing love they talk about. I did not know Jesus as love. I felt conflict in my soul, constantly. Never settled. Always felt the presence of evil.



I started to fall into serious sin when I was around 16. I tried to keep my self "pure" but finally gave in and had sex. I knew I was sinning against God, but I did it anyway.



That lead to a horrible ride. Sin and death filled my life. I could not get a hold on my life. I was overcome by sexual desire. I did not go with guys, but was addicted to ************ and the guilt was horrendous. One night the Holy Spirit was trying to convict me of my sin. He showed me my life, the future and told me to stop. I was in the middle of a sexual experience. I told Him that He couldn't save me, that I was too awful, and disbelief hardened my heart. (of course I had read a few verses that Satan twisted to help me reject the Holy Spirit, like do not harden your heart) I told Him that I didn't want to be a christian and totally rejected Jesus. I heard a very small voice say, "Don't do this." But, I continued and I felt the Holy Spirit leave me. And then, I could see in my spirit the throne of God with Jesus on the right side of God, judging me. Then they left.



So, time passed. I didn't feel connected, but it wasn't bothering me. Then I was at church camp when the other shoe fell, so to speak. I had no community with the people there that loved me before. They rejected me.



I was signed up to go to Christian College. I had a feeling it would go badly, but I was signed up. So I went. When I was there, I didn't feel connected to anyone. I went to God in prayer and asked Him, what is going on? He showed me that night and told me that I had committed the Unpardonable Sin. Then He left.



So, I never slept another night at college. I cried all of the time, had nightmares. It truly was hell on earth.



Years and years have gone on and I've sought the Lord and His forgiveness. 30 years have passed since that awful decision I made. And I still struggle. But let me tell you some of the things that God has done since then.



(and there are so many...but I won't be able to write them all)



First, I asked Him to show me Jesus in a way that I wouldn't feel condemned. I could never view Jesus as Jesus after what I did. I could only see Him as my condemner.



So, God sent my best friend. She is Jewish, but she is the most loving, kind and non-condemning person I've ever met. I know she doesn't know Jesus, but she embodies Him, I tell you. She is so gentle, kind, loving and not judging of anyone. She even loves Hitler. She figures he had his reasons for what he did. Wow. She embodies love. Those that love, know God for God is love. I have to say that I was lost in hate for a very long time. She brought love to my life. Abundantly.



Then, I went to a Jesus church and only felt condemned. They rejected me constantly and I couldn't deal with it. I had to leave. I landed in a church that truly gives off the love of God. His love. Period. I met Jesus in a whole new way. As the author of love. Wow. Amazing to me. Totally! For the first time in my life, I saw Christ as He is. Loving, gentle, caring, righteous, non-condemning. He loves us. And truly wants a relationship with us. He died for us. All of the things that I didn't "get" when I was younger. I truly think I finally see Him as He is.



So, now, I still have times that really trip me up. I wonder if I am truly forgiven. Or if God is just showing me what I missed out on by rejecting Him. But, deep in my heart, I know God is not like that. He is love .God is love. Love is forgiving, patient, kind, gentle, never holds a record of wrong.



And I have confessed from deep in my heart the wrong I did Him when I rejected Him. I have quit making excuses except one, that I did not know Him like that, when I was young. If I had truly known God, then I would NEVER have rejected him. Who would reject the fragrance of roses? The gentle breeze that cools your sweaty head? The rain on dry, parched land? Who would reject the gentle hug that holds you when you are sad or afraid? No one. Because God is love.



So, now, I still struggle. The devil does not want to let me go. But, we are overcomers. And I refuse to let that creep steal one more second that I can spend in the loving presence of my father in heaven.



The times that I trip is when I look back. When I look back at what I did or anything related to that. Those times are telling God that 1) I want to hold to that decision..um no! and 2) that I am looking at something awful compared to all He has done to bring me home.



So, if any of you can relate or agree, I would appreciate knowing what you think.



May the love of God fill your hearts through Jesus, our Savior.



Blessings!

There truly is hope for everyone here- God has listed it out on His word as simple as this:



Jeremiah 3:14-"Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion."



There is a difference between backsliding and blasphemy against the Spirit (Apostasy). Pastor and Evangelist Jesse M. Hendley has written a sermon on the subject and I have an excerpt below along with the link to where I read it:



" THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN APOSTASY AND BACKSLIDING

Jesse M. Hendley

John 6:67



My text today is John 6:67, in which the Lord said

unto the twelve disciples, "Will ye also go away?" A

group of disciples at this particular point in

Jesus' life, who had been walking with Him, said to

Him, "We want to go with You, Jesus. We want to be

saved and live with You here on earth and in heaven

hereafter."



These disciples suddenly turned around and left

Jesus. They went away and broke His heart. They

didn't want Him. They wanted religion. They had

that. They had the Law. They believed in the Temple

worship. They went through all the rituals, but they

rejected Jesus Christ, the Son of God. They made the

mistake many people make today.



In Distress About Salvation



I was preaching in a great church on a recent Sunday

night, when, at the close of the meeting, a lady

came to me who had heard the Sunday morning message.

She was in tears as she said, "May I speak to you?"

I escorted her to one side in order that we could

talk. As she looked into my face, with agony she

said, "I accepted Jesus as my Saviour and I was

about as honest about it as I knew how to be. (She

was a young woman, just out of college.) I went into

one of the big cities to a church and served the

Lord. My heart rejoiced and I was happy in the Lord.

I was studying the Bible, praying, and having a

wonderful time serving the Lord. I had the assurance

of salvation in my heart."



"I then went off to college and became a part of the

wrong crowd. I fell into sin and got away from the

Lord. Not long ago I heard a preacher speak on

apostasy who said if you ever leave Christ and go back

into sin, you are lost forever and there is no way you

can be saved." She looked into my face with agony, as

she wanted to know what she was going to do. She said,

"Am I lost? Can I not be saved?"



I said to her, "Little lady, believe the Word of God

against any human being---any preacher, anybody or

anything else. Believe God's Word. I am going to

share with you what God's Word says. Don't believe

it because I say it, but believe because it is God's

Word. There is a difference between apostasy and

backsliding. You must understand this and you will

know your condition. Apostasy is making a profession

of faith to walk with Jesus Christ here in this

world, to trust Him as your Saviour and to really

live for Him and serve Him and then to deliberately

reject Him later and walk away from Him in rejection

of Him as your Saviour. It has nothing to do with

the sin-question, but giving up your faith in Jesus

as your Saviour." That is what the people in this

particular scripture did(Hendley)."



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Another that helped was a quote written by iansmith from sermonindex.net. It reads:



"iansmith

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Two things to post on this.



Hosea 1:2 When the LORD began to speak through Hosea, the LORD said to him, "Go, take to yourself an adulterous wife and children of unfaithfulness, because the land is guilty of the vilest adultery in departing from the LORD."



God ordered Hosea to take a prostitute as a wife so that he could understand the heart of God towards his people Israel. This is however so that he could preach that Israel should repent. I mean, what better lesson is there to teach a prophet about the anguish of God than to give the same anguish in his relationships.



This is not an excuse to get into a relationship with a backslider... that would be taking the wrong lesson out of this book. The message is that WE ARE THE PROSTITUTE. God needed his prophet to marry a prostitute to teach him that... but thankfully he wrote a book about it so that God doesn't have to teach each and every one of us that lesson. We know not to put our hand on the stove because we've been told otherwise.



The fact of the matter is that God's people were corrupt, he has a covenant with them that he will not betray, just like a vow of marriage between a man and woman. Israel has been unfaithful, but God will remain to be faithful... Thats why God tells Hosea to go back to his wife after she leaves him because he wants him to understand his heart of forgiveness.



This is not permission to backslide! It is so that we can know the heart of God about backsliding and backsliders."



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Hope this helps! Love to you all.



May His Word bless you, encourage, uplift and empower you,

Isaiah

NO ONE...that is still breathiing air..has commited the unpardnable sin!!!!...the unpardnable sin is the sin of having refused the salvation that Jesus Christ offers..and you die...once you are dead..there is no more chance to ask forgivenss and to sak Jesus to come into your heart...the work of the Holy Spirit is to bring a person to Jesus and also to help them live holy lives...if you refuse to heed the wooing of the Holy Spirit and you die without accepting God's forgivness of your sin through the Son ..Jesus Christ..then there is no forgivness after death..hope this helps....some people make salvation way harder than it needs to be!!!

I am Catholic and am well aware of CATHOLIC GUILT.

DEEP BREATH… (after years of Catholic school!) :0

These days, I prefer to pray to God in the quiet of my bedroom.

I like to quietly reflect on my life and I believe that all sins that we are truly sorry for, deep within our hearts...are forgivable.

I think above all else, we must learn from our mistakes and try to correct them.

After all, we are human.

You are not roman catholic? Then you have committed the unpardonable sin. Obviously you are not familar with the bible ... Mark 3:29 couldn't be more clear.



Hopefully those of us who refuse to confess any sin will remain free of god.

To "knightwhispers" : Are your comments directed at me? it's a sincere question.

Ffrom my understanding, which is a *long* way fro saying I am educated enough to speak with authority, there are many who misunderstand what is the Unpardonable Sin. The last I read on this, as far at the person was concerned and *not* what the interpretation is said to be, was that of denying the Holy Spirit.



From what I have always been led to believe, the *ONLY* sin that cannot be forgiven here on earth is the one that you don't seek forgiveness for before we die. The sins we do not confess during our lives are sins that are taken with us in death. I cannot see any other way to view this.



As always, interpretations and teachings that come at us from many different angles lead us astray and to roam blindly into what we cannot truly say is the meaning of the word. I don't believe for one moment that *ANY* sine is greater than any other; a sin is a sin ... is a sin, is a sin ... isn't it?



"The unpardonable sin is not simply ascribing the works of God to Satan. It is not simply profane words or thoughts. Nor is the unpardonable sin simply rejection of Christ. It is more than that. It is such an insulting and definite repulse to the Holy Spirit who convicts a lost sinner that the Spirit calls no more. It is, after great light and many calls, a final rejection of Christ in which one sets himself against Christ and is left in his sins, unconvicted, unwarned, and so lost forever. This unpardonable sin can be committed only by a lost sinner who is convicted of his sins and who deliberately, after great enlightenment, turns the convicting Holy Spirit forever away from his heart by a definite decision , a permanent, once-for-all decision, rejecting Christ, and so blasphemously and insultingly turning against the holy Spirit who warns at the heart's door."



Does this not seem more like what is The Unpardonable Sin? It does to me because Christs states He will *NOT* let you go and it would take a supreme effort to break free and this could only possibly happen in total rejection; you are *NOT* guilty of this by your own words.



I am no teacher of scripture, but I do know that you are not lost ... not at all.



~F~

The concept of sin, or being able to sin, and then ask for forgiveness is in conflict with the free will we were given.

Either god gave us free will and we cannot sin, or he didn't give us free will and our sins are his doing and don't warrant confessing nor forgiveness.

Besides, the "confessing & forgivenss" part is an invention by the church to squeeze dirty little secrets from people in order to better control the lot.

First of all, since god is all forgiving, we don't need to confess anything, secondly, since god is also all-knowing, there's again no reason to confess to a silly priest in a wooden box.

So, in the end, when you think about it, all this stuff about sins and confessing is just a load of bull...

You have to understand the situation surrounding it



1) The tares are the seed actually planted by Satan. Yes fallen angels have actual offspring since the fall, and before the flood (Genesis 6) and they form secret cults that rule the world. Jesus has no desire whatsoever to save them. "The children of this world are wiser in their generation then the children of light." Thank you lord for hiding these things from the wise and revealing them to babes. In other words, scriptures contain clear deceptions for the super wise and esoteric.



2) The pharisees knew scripture, they knew Jesus was the messiah. They had clear evidence, but they didn't want to lose their power. They were the generation of vipers (the serpent race) so their public excuse was that the holy spirit was of satan. They had miracles done right in front of them and refused to believe. They got to say the sun does not shine while it was day.

Yes and....no.

Almost everyone has at least one vice that dogs them most of their life and they have to struggle with it in blood and gut battles between themselves and the tempter. Provided that person intends to always fight and win the temptation by keeping the lines clear (so to speak) with "headquarters" --but never-the-less, loses sometimes--and confesses afterwards (never intending to take advantage of the fact they'll always be forgiven)--then certainly not--that besetting sin that "got" us sometimes will be forgiven. Christ implied there was no limit to the number of times we should forgive someone else of their trespasses against us--could we expect less of him?



Possibly, more often than not, a sin that appears to have gained the upperhand in the battle of a lifetime--I'd guess the possibility were strong the person had stopped confession of all sin and had abandoned something that Christ commanded we always do-which is (again) confess your sin to God---and the Roman Catholics wisely added the teaching of *also* confessing the sin to a priest ("confess your sins one to another") That way, it helps keep you honest and focused. It's easy to confess a sin to God--but the idea of also confessing it to a priest--that'd be difficult--but in doing so, it trains the mind to be rigorous and regular in the confession of sin and maintaining one's soul in a continuing state of saving grace.

It's mentioned again and again throughout the Bible and yet--from many evangelical pulpits, it seems to be something that's glossed over--as if it were assumed a Christian was being very careful about it. Assumptions about such grave matters are potentially deadly and I'm not surprised the R.C.'s added it for this reason and others as well.

Remember--Catholics have always derived their practice and theology from the 3 legged stool of scripture, tradition and the magistrariem. They never claimed to take it all from the Bible-as Protestants do.

Think about it: What's older? The Roman Catholic Church or the New Testament? The answer is the Roman Catholic Church--it's older--to what did Christians look before the Bible was assembled and given the authority it has about the year 400 AD? They had to mix tradition with the written teachings of the Apostles available to them and the teachings of their bishops--provided of course, they were in line with the apostles teachings and tradition.



I'm not Roman Catholic btw.

I think you are correct, the unforgiveable sin is the one we consistently refuse to repent from and ask forgiveness for even though we know it is a sin... thanks for making it so clear.

If it's a sin that we genuinely forget to confess, though, I don't think it's the same thing. It would be a sin that one consciously decides not to repent from.

is it possible that the sin we refuse to ask forgiveness for...that we continue in belligerently, is unpardonable?