I certainly can't claim to be a college educated theologian, so I say this only as someone who honestly prayed to God for understanding from my youth up (being torn between several religions)
There is only one sin that can't be forgiven.
Even when times past are revealed as they still exist while we stand before the very One who created it.
Even as those things done in secret, whether in defiance or in ignorance, will be brought to light for every man and woman.
And then we will understand that God cannot fellowship with those actions, because if they are not covered from view by the life, death, and resurrection of Christ, they continue to exist just as Einstein imagined.
God is both the Beginning and End. Not limited to our one directional journey through time and our convenient habit of burying the past.
It all exists simultaneously to our Creator, and without constraints of any kind...known or unknown to mankind.
So there is one sin that results in death and separation from God and heaven.
That unforgivable sin is non belief...just as it was in the Garden of Eden.
And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat:
But of the tree that gives the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat: for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.
God's word accomplishes exactly what He says, and He had to make a way for us to find leading back to Him, and of our own free will. He did just that.
So there is one sin for which there is no forgiveness, and that is to deny this..
I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believes in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live
And whoever lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?
..Jesus
The whole of Christianity is defined there. And a great price was paid for each of us to cover the most enormous of sins. If we believe that, we naturally strive to get closer and closer to God.
Because we love Him, not because we fear Him.
And God teaches us. Real love covers a multitude of sin.
I had to add this one post and promise not to make as habit of it on this forum.
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