The Unpardonable Sin

The Unpardonable Sin

What is it?

?

This is an important issue

that causes many to be afraid.

This page will help you understand.

I encourage you to read this entire page

to gain clarification

so you have a good grasp on this subject matter.

Opening Thoughts

First -

I'll give a quick look at what it isn't.

Look at 1-4 below.

Here I quickly debunk a couple of

incorrect answers

that you often hear people believing.

1.  It is not doing some grave sin like murder. David did that. 

(It is not a gross, vile sin or committing a series of gross vile sins.)

2. Peter denied Jesus so that wasn't the unpardonable sin.

3. It is not honestly judging incorrectly. For example, attributing something Jesus did to the devil. Paul did that. 

4. And it is not turning your back on Jesus and betraying him - Peter did that.

Further down

I will deal  more fully   with "what it isn't" 

and

debunk more incorrect theories.

NOW

Let's look at...

What IS the Unpardonable Sin?

The Unpardonable Sin

- also called The Unforgiveable Sin - 

is mentioned in....

Mark 3:28-29

Matthew 12:32

Luke 12:10

Please read those verses and then read my explanation.

To Begin....

Let's be clear

The only sins

you cannot

repent and be forgiven of

are

1.

Taking the Mark of the Beast

Please see our Mark of the Beast page.

2.

Committing The Unpardonable Sin

I have studied this topic and

I am fully convinced

of my assertions on this page. 

Yet,

I could be wrong.

It is up to you

to consider my words

and

make your own assessment.

God wants each of us

to study for ourselves

the important questions that deal with God.

God says to us...

Study to shew thyself

approved unto God,

a workman that needeth not to be ashamed,

rightly dividing

the word of truth.

2 Timothy 2:15

Explaining the Unpardonable Sin

A person

can commit

The

Unpardonable Sin

in

Two Ways.

First Way

The First Way

  is also known

as

The Sin of Unbelief

Unbelief  - as opposed to -  Belief

This way means:

You never repent and believe 

in Jesus as your Savior & Lord.

You never receive Jesus as your Savior and LORD. 

** Note that **

"Believe"

includes 

 trying to follow Jesus in obedience.

The Holy Spirit is called

The Helper.

The Holy Spirit

convicts people of 

sin.

When...

The Holy Spirit

convicts

someone of sin

who is not a Christian

and

that person

resists

repenting and deciding

to believe and follow Jesus

- then -

that person is talking against The Holy Spirit.

-

That person

resists, rejects, and insults

The Holy Spirit.

If

that person dies

in that condition,

that person will go to hell.

In John 16:7-8,

Jesus explains that

The Holy Spirit will come to believers

after

Jesus dies on the cross.

Jesus says,

"Nevertheless I tell you the truth.

It is to your advantage that I go away;

for if I do not go away,

the Helper will not come to you;

but

if I depart, I will send Him to you.

And when He has come,

He will convict the world of sin,

and of righteousness, and of judgment.

To blaspheme" The Holy Spirit

is

when

people

resist

the conviction of their sin

 ( spoken to them by the Holy Spirit) 

and instead

remain

unrepentant throughout their life

and die in that state of mind.

There is

no pardon,

either in this age or in the age to come,

because

people who reject

The Holy Spirit’s conviction

 - to accept Jesus as Savior and Lord -

die

in unbelief.

THE Sin of UNBELIEF

That is more completely explained in our page -

  Explaining Salvation 

See  Important Note  below.

TAKE NOTE:

Many people

think THEY HAVE received

Jesus

as Savior and Lord

and they haven't. 

In Matthew 7:13-14

Jesus says that

the way to heaven is narrow and most people go to hell.

In Matthew 7:21-23

Jesus tells us that

many people

will think

they are following Jesus and are going to heaven

and they are not. 

Matthew 7:21-23 NKJV

Jesus says,

“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter

the kingdom of heaven,

but

he who does the will of My Father in heaven.

²² Many will say to Me in that day,

‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name,

cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’

²³ And then I will declare to them,

‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’"

Let me

explain

Lawlessness   vs.    Righteousness

Lawlessness - is practicing Sin

Righteousness - is practicing obeying God.

Obedience is an important goal. 

James 1:22 TLB

In this verse, God is talking about his Scriptures...

"It is a message to obey, not just to listen to."

Let me explain in more detail....

If

you have given your life to Jesus

and thus

have a

saving knowledge

of Jesus Christ

THEN

You

PRACTICE

obeying Jesus

like you would

PRACTICE

a musical instrument

that you truly want to get better at playing.

-

You will never be perfect

- until -

you walk through the gates of heaven

but

you will get better at it!!!

Here is a

Helpful Youtube short video

on this topic.

 

I do not know how to put a Youtube short on this page.

Please

cut and paste into your browser.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ruKPw9AKPIQ

John 16

tells us what the Holy Spirit does.

Therefore,

people MUST understand how to evaluate -

1.

  IF

they are right with God

And

if

they evaluate

and

find out

that

they are not right with God......then....

2.

Then -

They need to know

HOW

to get right with God.

You must get right with God

before

your last breath.

Because

Upon your death....

The sin of unbelief cannot be forgiven.

The Second Way

The Second Way 

to do

The Unpardonable Sin

is.....

IF

You  have received Jesus as Savior and Lord

- yet -

at some point.....

You   willfully walk away   from Jesus

and

do not return to Jesus

with

repentance and renewed dedication and devotion

before your death

then

you have committed the unpardonable sin.

God will not make you stay with him.

You

CAN

shut him out of your life.

1 Timothy 4:1

tell us that

some people    WILL    depart from the faith.

"Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times

some will depart from the faith..."

Many other Scriptures also say that.

Here are some of them...

Galatians 1:6, 2 Peter 3:17, 2 Thessalonians 2:3, Hebrews 3:12, Matthew 24:12

The rest of this section all the way to the Bible picture

is from an article in Z3News by James Bailey...

Why would the Bible warn us not to drift away from God

if

there are no consequences of drifting away?

The warning is clear,

if

we neglect our salvation we will not escape judgment.

So Jesus was saying to those Jews who had believed Him,

“If you continue in My word,
then
you are truly disciples of Mine;
and
you will know the truth,
and
the truth will make you free.”
(John 8:31-32 NASB)

Comments: In verse 31, Jesus clearly states a condition for being his disciple. Only those who continue following his word are truly his disciples.
If this is true then the flip side of it is also true. Those who do not continue to follow the word are no longer his disciple and will not know the truth. 

Comments: The word ‘abide’ comes from the Hebrew word ‘meno’, which is defined as ‘to remain, to sojourn, not to depart, tarry, to continue to be present, to stay with. 

God will  not  force you to love him.

(See John 14:23)

You have freewill

even after

you accept Jesus as Savior and Lord.

If

that is

you,

and you die

without

repenting and making things right with God,

then

you will have committed the unpardonable sin. 

You must

get right with God before your last breath.

-

IMPORTANT

Note

If

you get saved and later walk away -

you can get right with God again

by

repentance and rededication.

 And even if

you later walk away AGAIN -

you can get right with God again

through repentance and rededication.

(Before you die, God always has his arms open to you.)

But

walking away from God is a serious matter.

It hardens your heart toward God.

It makes it very hard to hear The Holy Spirit.

AND

You could die suddenly

and have no time

to get right with God!!

Wisdom says

that

we need to be determined to......

Be a person

who

God can easily get our attention.

Some people

commit

The Unpardonable Sin

by just

put off

getting right with God -

and then

they

die unexpectedly.

Some people

put off

repenting and receiving

Jesus as Savior and Lord.

Some people keep thinking, "I'll do it tomorrow."

Yet,

Sometimes tomorrow doesn't come.

Here is a Christian Movie link...

A movie of refusing to repent and give your life to Jesus.

A movie of
putting off getting right with God till it's too late.

This is a good movie

to use

to teach your teens about temptations

and the dangers of sin.

Cut and paste in browser.

https://youtu.be/uPiub_S0uDQ?si=3nM3hZpMZYPU22Pt

Incorrect Theories

I have heard many opinions

of what

The Unpardonable Sin

is

and

many

are incorrect.

Here is a big key....

Any theory

about

the definition

of this sin

cannot be true

if

Paul

 - the writer of most of the New Testament books -

committed that sin.

-

And the same is true

IF

Peter or David committed that sin

or any other Bible character that we KNOW is in heaven.

For example,

Some say the unpardonable sin is attributing to the devil

the works of  the Holy Spirit does.

Paul did that before he accepted Jesus as Savior.

Another example,

Some say it is when a person has a wrong belief

about the Holy Spirit.

Paul did that before he accepted Jesus as Savior.

A Third example,

Some say attributing works of Jesus to the devil.

Paul did that before he accepted Jesus as Savior.

A Fourth example,

Some people say that it is

doing

a really bad sin like

adultery, or murder, or denying Jesus

when

threatened with persecution.

David

committed adultery and murder and he is in heaven.

Paul 

assisted in murder.

Peter

denied Jesus when he thought

he was going to be threatened with persecution

and yet he is in heaven.

So.....

Those

can't be the

Unpardonable Sin.

Some say The Unpardonable Sin can only be committed

when

Jesus was on earth.

So,

that raises the question...

" Why would it be written in the New Testament? "

Afterall.....

The New Testament wasn't written

until after Jesus died.

So that can't be it.

Some people say - it was only possible to be committed by those who saw Jesus in the flesh when he was on earth.

I disagree -

First let's realize that ALL the Bible books that talk of this sin were written after Jesus is dead.

So the term would not apply to anyone reading the Gospels.

In fact, for this theory to be true,

anyone who HAD committed that sin

would already have committed it

and so

the warning

would be of no use to them or anyone else. 

The writers of the Bible (human beings under the inspiration of God) would have no reason to inform people of this sin. 

It can't be

any sin that

Paul did before he became a follower of Jesus.

OR

any sin that

any faithful Bible character

did

before he or she

became a follower of Jesus. 

It can't be just saying something

awful about

The Holy Spirit. 

Many people

have done that and then gotten saved.

Consider This:

Jesus warned us to be careful of being deceived.

He wouldn't tell us to be careful

not to be deceived

and then

eternally punish us

for thinking

someone is doing a miracle

by the

works of the devil instead of by the power of God.

I say that.....

BECAUSE.....

Jesus is emphatic about us

being wary

not only of

false teachers and prophets

but also

to be wary about a man

who is

the anti-Christ

and another man who is

the false prophet.

Both of them

WILL do

miracles and attribute them to God. 

So thinking that

someone

might

be doing miracles by the devil

is a good way

to be careful

about the anti-Christ

or about anyone

who may or may not

be doing God's work. 

-

We are not to be gullible.

We need to use

our brain

and

think things through.

Saul / Paul was teaching

that the

followers of Jesus were evil -

meaning from the devil.

So Saul was essentially saying that Jesus was from the devil.

Saul was deceived.

Later Saul encountered Jesus and was saved.

Then he changed his name to Paul.

So calling Jesus the devil

was not

the unpardonable sin.

The words "Holy Spirit" were not mentioned

from Jesus

on this topic

except

at the one verse

recorded in three books....

Matthew 12:31

Mark 3:28-30

Luke 12:10

Blasphemy OF the Holy Spirit.....

If

you see

The Holy Spirit

working

and you think

"That is the devil"

then

how are you going to be saved? 

The only way you get saved

is

by the Holy Spirit drawing you.

So if the Holy Spirit draws you and you say,

"That is the devil drawing me

and I am going to reject that,"

then you cannot be saved.

Jesus

didn't say

they HAD committed

the sin of blasphemy -

he

indicated that

they were living in a dangerous way

concerning this topic.

If you are so opposed to the
Holy Spirit's work

that you cannot recognize it -

and you refuse to change that stance -

you will be going to hell.

It is interesting

that

Jesus spoke to them

logically

to wake them

out of this stupor of rebellion that they were in. 

And

if

any of you

are loyal

to the biblical Jesus

and are

worried

that you have committed this sin -

the fact

that you are worried and sorrowful

and ready to repent

because

you think you may have done that sin -

means

you have not done that sin. 

That is

IF

you have a clear knowledge

of what it means

to be saved from hell.

See: Explaining Salvation

So saying bad things about The Holy Spirit

is not the unpardonable sin.

If you do that,

you can later change and welcome

The Holy Spirit

who you now know better

and you now value and respect.

All of us have grieved the Holy Spirit.

All of us have resisted the Holy Spirit.

That is not unpardonable. 

We resist the Holy Spirit

every time we intentionally sin.

First of all -

Jesus was not saying that the Pharisees were doomed.

He was telling them to open their ears

and

realize their wrong thinking.

As he said, "Your own people cast out demons."

He said that to get them thinking logically.

He is actually saying,

"You are not being logical.

You are not seeking God with your whole heart. "

John 16:7-8 

If you are unwilling to hear the Holy Spirit

and ask for forgiveness and get right with God -

and you die,

then you have committed the unpardonable sin.

Joseph Prince

NOTE:

People like

Joseph Prince

tell people NOT to ask for forgiveness

of a current sin.

Joseph Prince is terribly wrong.

Being a believer and not repenting for months or years

makes your heart

grow harder and more easily rebellious

toward God.

Joseph Prince

does not even have

the right understanding of how to get to heaven.

Beware of him.

See our Joseph Prince page.

An Important Point

Jesus healed people

who were

controlled by one or more demons

who got them to do terrible things.

Do you not think a demon

would have

had the person

commit the unpardonable sin

if it was one particular sin?

The unforgiveable sin is rejecting Salvation.

Jesus IS Salvation. 

Many people see

the work of Jesus in salvation as disdainful

or just

unworthy of their attention and devotion.

The Sin unto Death

What is the Sin unto death?

The Bible gives us very little on this topic.

I may or may not have clarity on this issue.

I will tell you what I firmly believe - at this time.

-

1 John 5:16 - explained...

If anyone sees his brother

sinning a sin which does not lead to death,

he will ask, and He will give him life

for those who commit sin not leading to death.

There is sin leading to death.

I do not say that he should pray about that.

Here

is the only explanation

that makes any sense to me.

I believe there are times

when God has decided 

to not heal someone

who refuses to do

what God wants him to do to STAY well -

so

God decides not to do a big miracle

for the person.

Instead,

his sinful habit becomes a sin unto death. 

For EXAMPLE

I will tell you by giving you an example.

Let's say you know someone who is a smoker.

That person gets lung cancer.

Let's say that the person is convicted by God

to give up smoking.

Yet,

the person refuses.

Let's say that

someone in his church is praying for the man

to be healed.

And God says,

"No, don't pray for him.

If I heal him, he will just keep smoking and his cancer will return so I am not going to heal him."

I do not believe that it means that the person is going to hell for not quitting smoking. 

I just believe there are times when God is not going to heal someone who refuses to do what God wants him to do to STAY well - so God is not going to do a big miracle for the person.

Roman 8:12-13 NKJV

 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors—not to the flesh,
to live according to the flesh.
¹³ For if you live according to the flesh you will die;
but if
by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body,
you will live.

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