Is Paul saying what
I think he is saying?
Hebrews 6:4-6(NKJV)
For it is impossible for those who were
once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the
Holy Spirit,
and have tasted the
good word of God and the powers of the age to come,
if they fall away, to renew them again to repentance,
since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and put Him to an open shame.
It seems to me that
Paul is saying that if those who accept Christ fall away, God will not take
them back. He cites as his reason that
if would be like crucifying Christ all over again and that is why God won't
forgive and take you back. Am I reading
too much into that?
I think it is flat
out Scripturally wrong. Let's compare
what Paul just said to what Jesus said in Matthew.
Matthew 12:31-32(NKJV)
“Therefore I say to
you, every sin and
blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven
men.
Anyone who speaks a word against
the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy
Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, either in this age or in the age to come.
Seems to me that
Jesus is saying that there is only one unforgivable sin and that is blasphemy
against the Holy Spirit. Now one might
argue that "falling away" is blasphemy against the Holy Spirit but I
think that is a stretch because Jesus even went so far as to say you can talk
bad about me but you can't talk bad about the Holy Spirit.
Seems to me that
falling away would be more akin to talking bad about Jesus than blaspheming the
Holy Spirit.
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