Forgiveness is not dependent upon forgiving others as it was in the time of Christ…..although it’s a good idea…. as unforgiveness will eat at you from the inside.
Forgiveness changed under the new covenant.
Eph 4:32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
Col 3:13 Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
Unforgivable sin
I have heard many different assessments of what the
unforgivable sin is ….and honestly the Bible does not come right out and state it…………which is a good thing.
Hopefully I can make this understandable
Gen 3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
That is a scripture we are all familiar with….
In that verse we see the
seed of the serpent and the
seed of the woman. Now we know that the woman doesn’t have seed, but we know the reference to that was our savior Jesus Christ. (
Luk 1:35)
In addition to that we know that by making Jesus Christ Lord in our life we are born again (
Rom 10:9&10) to which we receive the
incorruptible seed (spirit)
1Pe 1:23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
You can’t lose seed (spirit) Just as you cannot lose the seed of your earthly father no matter what you do, seed is seed. Your natural body has the seed of your earthly father, a born again person (body, soul, spirit) has the incorruptible seed of God. Once a person is born again of God’s seed …they cannot commit the unforgivable sin. You can deny God, curse the bible, and beat up Christians for the rest of your life, but you won’t change the seed of God within you.
These are the related biblical scripture on unforgivable sin (
Mat 12:31&32,
Mar 3:28&29,
Luk 12:10,
1Jo 3:8-12)
But I do want to note a few things from
Mat 12:31 and
Jhn 8:13ff.
Mat 12:31 Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy [against] the [Holy] Spirit shall not be forgiven unto men.
They
shall not be forgiven is in the sense of
absolute cannot be forgiven…
With “
The” article
the Spirit is referencing God …who is spirit (
Jhn 4:24)
There is only one sin that is unalterable…. thus making it unforgivable according to God ….that is being born of the devils seed. It is unalterable just as the seed of God in you is unalterable it cannot be change and thus makes it unforgivable.
Jhn 8:44 tells us why →
Ye are of your father the devil,← and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
((I would suggest reading all of
Jhn 8:12-
59))
Our father
is God …we acquired that position as children when we were born again (seed)...... At the time Christ spoke this to the Jews…. the new birth was not available to believers… as it is now.
The Pharisees acquired a position as children of darkness...... Remember it had been 400 years without a prophet…and in those years of Babylonian mysticism and occult practices…the devil had a field day. These guys were supposed to be the ones who maintained the statutes and practices that God had set up …but instead, they went by the way of Cain.
What I am stating is this.... God can’t (it’s impossible) to forgive someone who makes the serpent their father…that is seed … seed of the devil…. and seed is seed …it can’t be changed.
I have met those of seed when I was a priest in the satanic arena which I practiced in before God rescued me. You would never know them if you met them on the street, in the banking arena, religious hierarchy, the music industry, or the political arena… although ….God may inform you if it was necessary …but for the most part they would appear like the Pharisees did in their time.
And if you notice Jesus did not rebuke them (cast them out) in
John because He couldn’t…. devil spirits you
can cast out …..seed you
cannot…it’s permanent.
Of course, what you believe is up to you, …. but that is what I know from both experience and what the truth of the Word indicates.
A person born again cannot commit the unforgivable sin. And a natural person has to be fully aware of what they are doing to make Satan their father …it cannot happen accidently.