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Any and all sin separates us from God and we're restored into a relationship with Him through repentance and forgiveness in the Lord Jesus. However, only blasphemy against the Holy Spirit (resisting or rejecting God's grace and His Holy Spirit, unforgiveness, etc.) separates us eternally from Him and there's no forgiveness for that unpardonable sin. That's my take. Peace in Christ
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What if there are/were factors in one person's life, that is not in another that "causes" a person to resist or reject God, or not forgive, or remain unloving and bitter... Certainly your not saying that someone's unforgiveness can cost them there salvation...Any and all sin separates us from God and we're restored into a relationship with Him through repentance and forgiveness in the Lord Jesus. However, only blasphemy against the Holy Spirit (resisting or rejecting God's grace and His Holy Spirit, unforgiveness, etc.) separates us eternally from Him and there's no forgiveness for that unpardonable sin. That's my take. Peace in Christ
I will try!
Well, those are complex issues. Not forgiving others is a damnable offense. If we don't forgive others of their sins, then we're not forgiven either. That's simple. As far as circumstantial issues go, we certainly are in position to judge others. The emphasis should be on a personal relationship with God through the Lord Jesus, and holiness will be a natural outcome. God bless.
So, does it mean physical death, or spiritual death...?I will try!
"There is a sin that leads to death;" (1 John 5:16).
If you are to look at the Strong's word definition for "death" (#2288 thanatos), there is written the following understanding of the meaning of that word:
2288 thánatos (derived from 2348 /thnḗskō, "to die") – physical or spiritual death; (figuratively) separation from the life (salvation) of God forever by dying without first experiencing death to self to receive His gift of salvation.
Though whether this means that we can be separated from the love of God, I do not know. I do know that God's love is not necessarily mutually exclusive to His wrath (meaning that despite His justice can rule against us, His love is somehow still for us - that being the part of us that has not yet "perished").
Well, it's simple to me. Matthew 6:15, Matthew 6:12 (Lord's prayer) and so on. People can theorize these verses as they please, but its pretty cut and dry to me. If we don't forgive, then we aren't forgiven. Period. God bless.
Also, the Lord Jesus was in circumstances and situations that none of us would ever face. Yet, He forgave and died for us while we were still in our sins. We simply don't have a valid excuse, no matter how hard and cruel our past, to hold on to grudges and unforgiveness. God bless.
How can you judge that way...?
Except he was God, and none of us are...
So, we must forgive first, before God will forgive us...?
Also, Jesus showed us what he "lived up to", knowing we would find out we just couldn't do it, Jesus doing it, cause he knew we could not, and so we would not not have to live up to it fully if it is not possible for us...
A person must first be born of God in order to have spiritual life, and that means to die to self that love can reign. When the physical life ends, it is the end of the opportunity for spiritual rebirth or spiritual death (Hebrews 9:27).
Romans 2:12 says they will perish. (God did not lie in Genesis 2:17).
I always see sin as the failure to love - where sin is always a self-centred thing that cares of it's self even at the expense of truth or others, while love is a selfless thing that cares for others even at the expense of it's own. In the letter of 1 John this is really clear - that we love because we are born of God and the one who is born of God does not do sin. So this sin that leads to death must coincide with what St. Paul wrote in Hebrews 6:4-8. St. Peter also wrote of it in 2 Peter 2:1 - they deny The Lord who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves.
What if by your preaching complete sinlessness to be saved, you are committing apostasy...?A person must first be born of God in order to have spiritual life, and that means to die to self that love can reign. When the physical life ends, it is the end of the opportunity for spiritual rebirth or spiritual death (Hebrews 9:27).
Romans 2:12 says they will perish. (God did not lie in Genesis 2:17).
