I get asked sometimes, “what is the unpardonable sin”? Obviously most religious people are terrified that they are going to someday commit the unpardonable sin, and from then on out no matter what they do they’re screwed.
I have some good news for those who spend every waking moment trembling with the thought that they just might do this heinous act without knowing it: if you are worried over it and guilty, you haven’t done it. Believe me. Those who have committed the unpardonable sin end up searing their conscience during the process, so they can’t feel guilt anymore.
The fact is that the Unpardonable Sin mentioned in Mark 3:28-29 (also Matthew 12:30-32, Luke 11:14-23, Hebrews 10:26-27) is as much of a deliberate action as getting saved. You didn’t ‘accidentally’ get saved, did you? Nobody can twist your arm behind your back and make you get saved — even if maybe you feel like that is what happened — you had to have made a real decision within your heart, full-well knowing what you were doing.
You weren’t trying to become an apostle of the devil, but you accidentally got saved instead. No, you had full and clear knowledge of what you were doing. You chose, specifically, to follow Yeshua the Messiah as your King and savior and God. Period. You decided to do whatever he said, accept his Spirit into you, and to follow him even to the death.
The verses about the unpardonable sin clearly parallel the verses about getting saved:
And whoever says a word against the Son of man will be forgiven; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come. (Mat. 12:32)
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. (Rom. 10:9)
We say one thing we get saved, we say another we get condemned. Obviously getting saved isn’t as simple as just saying any old thing out loud; you actually have to say it with your heart, say it in full belief and conviction. You can’t lie and get saved, you have to tell the full and honest truth.
Simply put, the unpardonable sin is “truthfully” rejecting Yeshua just as firmly as you received him when you got saved. When a person with their whole heart declares him or herself free from Yeshua forever, of their own free will, they have just cut him off forever. It is, in effect, reverse-salvation.
Committing the unpardonable sin is just as simple as that. But a person who is new in the faith can’t commit it accidentally — they aren’t educated enough yet. Only a person who really knows what they are doing can manage it. This is why a bunch of the Pharisees Yeshua was talking to just then did manage it: the Pharisees were the most highly educated, respected, knowledgeable religious scholars of their time. They knew what they were doing and they did it on purpose.
And don’t worry, if you ever fooled around with “rejecting Jesus” but you still feel guilty, you didn’t do it. You just played with it.
Why is it unpardonable? Won’t God forgive someone who does that?
Actually, yes He would. He would forgive anything… his blood was powerful enough to cover any transgression.
But the problem here is that the person who rejects Yeshua forever, with full knowledge of what they are doing, ends up “searing their conscience” or literally burning out their sense of conscience so that they can no longer feel with part or all of their spirit. They become permanently deaf and blind in a part of them that used to bring them to repentance. So if they never come to repent, He cannot forgive; that is the rules. You have to come ask Him to forgive before He can cleanse you.
As long as you still feel the need to come to God for forgiveness, you’re fine. The rejected ones no longer feel guilt, they no longer come to God at all. Why should they? They rejected Him, and they don’t feel bad about it in the least. I’m sure they probably feel liberated, although they will spend the rest of their truncated lives desperately searching for something to fill a huge gap inside them, and they will never find it. How happy could you be?
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