The wrong interpretation very well stated. The needed focus on the issue gets adjusted more definitively here. You create an image of <<two categories of sin>>, as does Wrangler.
JBF wrote another version, <<justbyfaith said:
↑ He is saying that the person who has been born of God has made a 180-degree turn away from sin and towards righteousness; so that he now commits sins less and less and may even have come to the point where he doesn't sin any longer.>> <<justbyfaith said:
↑ But I feel led to say to you that it seems to me that you are resisting the Holy Spirit; in that He is knocking on the door of your heart (Revelation 3:20) and you don't want to let Him in: and you justify that by saying that He does not come to dwell within human beings.>>
You and Wrangler sort sins into human and divine <categories>; JBF - SDA, sort sins into torque <categories> of headstrongness or <resistance>.
God did not tell Adam and Eve they could sin one or the other category of sin or neither. The first man's sin was deadly because it was sin against GOD. That never has changed. Sin is of one category or kind, the deadly sins. And JUST SO the antidote for all sin is SINGLE: God the Son of God become God the Son of Man : GOD TO DIE IN SINNERS' -- ALL sinners', place-- JEWS as well. But they would have none of it. THEY WERE NOT THAT BAD; THEY WERE BETTER. Sin for me is not without hope; but for you? If you, sin, you shall die! I am better than you.
Pride could be the prince of sins, the unforgiveable sin, if he be crowned King instead of the Meek and Lowly Jesus Son of Man.
I'm not going to believe that rejection of Jesus Christ is the unforgivable sin because no one knows why a person does such a thing. God is the one who can read minds and hearts not us so if a person rejects Jesus Christ right on up to death does that mean that person will not get a resurrection we don't know, that's something only the True God knows.
I don't believe that anyone is without sin. Even if they have accepted Jesus Christ in their lives for anyone to say they are so perfect they are without sin, they don't know what they're talking about. We all die and the reason for that is sin. Eternal life isn't promised to us in this wicked world we're living in.
God told Adam not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
The tree was a fitting symbol of the right to determine or set the standards of good and bad, which right God reserved for Himself by forbidding Adam to eat thereof. This prohibition emphasized man’s proper dependence on God as his Sovereign Ruler. By obedience the first man and woman could demonstrate that they respected God’s right to make known to them what was “good” (divinely approved) and what was “bad” (divinely condemned). Disobedience on their part would have signified a rebellion against God’s sovereignty. This understanding of matters is acknowledged in a footnote of the modern Catholic translation known as
The Jerusalem Bible: “The first sin was an attack on God’s sovereignty, a sin of pride.”
Simple as the command was, it could reveal what might be expected of the first man and woman in the way of loyalty. This is in harmony with the principle enunciated by Jesus Christ: “The person faithful in what is least is faithful also in much, and the person unrighteous in what is least is unrighteous also in much.” (
Luke 16:10) Both Adam and Eve had the capability of maintaining perfect obedience.
For us today it is vital that we exert ourselves so as not to fall into the same line of reasoning as did Adam and Eve. Though Adam was not deceived, the rebellion of his wife apparently caused him to lose faith in his heavenly Father’s ability to work out matters to his blessing. Seemingly he even took offense against Jehovah God, saying: “The woman whom
you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree and so I ate.” (
Gen. 3:12) As for Eve, she was completely deceived. Through the serpent’s words, Eve came to believe that Jehovah God was keeping her low and in ignorance. Thus she came to view disobedience, independence from God, as the way to happiness.
Remembering that what Adam and Eve did in eating an actual, but divinely forbidden, fruit signified rebellion against Jehovah’s sovereignty, we should want to make it our determination to remain loyal subjects of our Creator. Never do we want to be deceived into thinking that God’s laws are unjust and not in our best interests. Regardless of what circumstances may develop, we, unlike Adam, ought to keep before us the fact that Jehovah God can and will bless his devoted servants. We have the Biblical assurance, confirmed by numerous examples throughout human history, that Jehovah God is the “rewarder of those earnestly seeking him.”—
Heb. 11:6.
