What is Hebrews 10:26 about? Can wilful sin be forgiven?

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What have those in Heb. 10:26 done?

vs. 26) there remains no more sacrifice for sins, for them.

vs. 29) they have trodden under foot the Son of God and counted the blood of His covenant as an unholy thing.

They have walked away from Christ rejecting Him, they no longer have faith in Him.

The indwelling Holy Spirit has been insulted by unbelief and also rejected.

The "willful sin" they have committed is blasphemy of the Holy Spirit.

That's why the author said, "there remains no more sacrifice for sin." Jesus has been denied.
yes aka apostasy very true
 
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What have those in Heb. 10:26 done?

vs. 26) there remains no more sacrifice for sins, for them.

vs. 29) they have trodden under foot the Son of God and counted the blood of His covenant as an unholy thing.

They have walked away from Christ rejecting Him, they no longer have faith in Him.

The indwelling Holy Spirit has been insulted by unbelief and also rejected.

The "willful sin" they have committed is blasphemy of the Holy Spirit.

That's why the author said, "there remains no more sacrifice for sin." Jesus has been denied.
so I am going to assume you think you have no sins you commit willfully?
Moët me ask you since you live to tak about law. On the day of atonement when the priest went into the holy place. What sins did that sacrifice not cover?
 
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This often misquoted verse is a subject of much debate, but what I find is that the context is often completely overlooked.

Hebrews 10:1-18 is about Christ's perfect sacrifice being superior to the sacrifice of animals.

Verse 1 is talking about animal sacrifices offered yearly being inadequate to make anyone perfect.
Hebrews 10:1 (NKJV)
1For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with these same sacrifices, which they offer continually year by year, make those who approach perfect.

Compared to the single, perfect, sacrifice of Christ who perfects everyone for all time:
Hebrews 10:16 (NKJV)
14For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.

This is about sinning after having an animal sacrifice. There was not a sacrifice for sins until the next year under the Law. Sinning makes an animal sacrifice null and void.
Hebrews 10:26-28(NKJV)
26For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 27but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries. 28Anyone who has rejected Moses’ law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

What all of this means is that Hebrews 10:26 cannot be true regarding those covered by Christ's sacrifice. By process of elimination, verse 26 is talking about animal sacrifices.

You may also have noticed the simplicity of how the books of the Bible are named. Romans was written to Romans, Ephesians was written to those people of Ephesus, Galatians was written to those people of Galatia, and Hebrews was written to Hebrew people.

The target audience of Hebrews are actually a mixed audience of practicing Jewish people and Jewish Christians who are being given a persuasive sermon to convert to either Christianity, reject animal sacrifices, accept the perfect sacrifice of Christ, or not revert back into the Law of Moses.
i do think also that there is a certain context that the writer was aiming for when he wrote this letter, however this is still a message to christians, it is a warning not to depart from the faith in great passion
 
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i do acknowledge the verse you are talking about and i do recognise this. certainly, there is a group of people who never had their heart in the idea of Jesus and His salvation in the first place, but i think they are more to be regarded as false converts
if we look in nearly every new testament book, perhaps all, there are warning everywhere about not straying from the faith. 1 timothy 4:1 and 2 thessalonians 2:1-3 are examples that it is possible to depart from the faith
Yes I agree
but who does god give eternal
Life to. Who did God say would never die? Did Jesus mean it. Or was he just saying it
I departed the faith for 5 years as a prodigal sin my
Life became so hellish I was ready to
Commit suicide I committed many sins while I was gone sexual sinned drunkenness. All kinds of things
God did what he promised he left the flock came and found me and led me back
I never stopped being the son. We have to be careful trampling on Gods promises
 

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so I am going to assume you think you have no sins you commit willfully?
Moët me ask you since you live to tak about law. On the day of atonement when the priest went into the holy place. What sins did that sacrifice not cover?
I knew this argument was coming sooner of later! I knew from your posts you were a OSAS believer, did I not tell you so in another thread some days back.

This is a dead end argument, it brings nothing but sorrow and strife, not to mention the hatred.

I suggest we drop it!
 
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i do think also that there is a certain context that the writer was aiming for when he wrote this letter, however this is still a message to christians, it is a warning not to depart from the faith in great passion
I agree that the book of Hebrews is a message to Christians in general, but Hebrews 10:26 is not a message to Christians.

Christians who willfully sin do not make Christ's sacrifice null and void. Do you think if you sin once you're going to hell?
 
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Hebrews Made it clear we are a specific group

Hebrews 10:39 (NKJV): 39 But we are not of those who draw back to perdition, but of those who believe to the saving of the soul.

We are not then.
Hebrew is about the law and gods people trying to return to the law. Sinning willfully is returning to that which can not save. Not personal sin of breaking a command
 
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I knew this argument was coming sooner of later! I knew from your posts you were a OSAS believer, did I not tell you so in another thread some days back.

This is a dead end argument, it brings nothing but sorrow and strife, not to mention the hatred.

I suggest we drop it!
I am not going to drop it
I could care less if your against OSAS we are discussing this word
you said willfulnsin can cause us to lose salvation
so I ask do you sin willfully. It by accident
don’t run from the question because your afraid to answer just answer
we are talking the word not OSAS or NOSAS
that’s why people can not have conversations because they want to put everyone in groups and are incapable of sincere conversating

Well that guys is OSAS so it’s a waste of time
the waste of time is assuming and refusing to have an open conversation
 
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Hebrews 9:28 so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.
 

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I am not going to drop it
I could care less if your against OSAS we are discussing this word
you said willfulnsin can cause us to lose salvation
so I ask do you sin willfully. It by accident
don’t run from the question because your afraid to answer just answer
we are talking the word not OSAS or NOSAS
that’s why people can not have conversations because they want to put everyone in groups and are incapable of sincere conversating

Well that guys is OSAS so it’s a waste of time
the waste of time is assuming and refusing to have an open conversation
There's not a single one of us on this forum who has not committed a sin know full well it was a sin and did it anyway.

We are all guilty of this, but this is not what Heb. 10:26 is referring to!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

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The Greek word translated "knowledge" is epignōsin. It implies a full knowledge; or a close relationship with it, or with Christ. This is a person who is fully saved and knows exactly what they're doing; yet they turn their back on Him anyway. Apostasy may apply; but apostasy is more general. It could apply to the fully saved or to those who aren't really saved but only have a form of religion.

In 2 Peter 2:20 the same word epignōsin is used:

"For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the real knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter circumstances have become worse for them than the first ones."—Wilber Pickering New Testament, Majority Text

I like what you are saying here in ways. and yet....

from another thread:


https://christianchat.com/threads/i...re-than-our-beliefs-alone.202243/post-4696205


"Verse 18. - But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Growth is necessary for steadfastness; we cannot persevere unless we continually advance in faith (comp. 1 Peter 1:5-7; 1 Peter 2:2)."
 
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There's not a single one of us on this forum who has not committed a sin know full well it was a sin and did it anyway.

We are all guilty of this, but this is not what Heb. 10:26 is referring to!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s not
so willfull sin is not willful sin?

What sin did Christ not die for?
 
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Yes I agree
but who does god give eternal
Life to. Who did God say would never die? Did Jesus mean it. Or was he just saying it
I departed the faith for 5 years as a prodigal sin my
Life became so hellish I was ready to
Commit suicide I committed many sins while I was gone sexual sinned drunkenness. All kinds of things
God did what he promised he left the flock came and found me and led me back
I never stopped being the son. We have to be careful trampling on Gods promises
God gives eternal life to those who continue to believe and follow Jesus. i have been in that place of not wanting to live so i do understand this feeling. but you know that He led you back. you have listened to His discipline and that is a great thing
 
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I agree that the book of Hebrews is a message to Christians in general, but Hebrews 10:26 is not a message to Christians.

Christians who willfully sin do not make Christ's sacrifice null and void. Do you think if you sin once you're going to hell?
i don't think it is just one wilful sin. if someone gets to the point where they harden their heart and fall away or deny the sacrifice of Jesus, then i believe that there is not forgiveness for this. if any is willing to repent, then they haven't hardended their heart completely and they of course can come back if they truly repent. hebrews 3 says the Holy Spirit says to not harden your hearts
 

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It’s not
so willfull sin is not willful sin?

What sin did Christ not die for?
Christ died for all sin, but you know as well as I that the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit is not forgiven.

That's exactly what the author is saying in Heb. 10:26!

They accepted Christ and then turned and denied Him, embarrassing the Holy Spirit.
 
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Hebrews 9:28 so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.
amen His one sacrifice was enough
 
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@ameizhere i think of David

Here is a man at home thinking of himself and not out on the field with his troops as he should have been

In his fleshly thinking he sees a woman who is beautiful taking a bath

He sends for her and ends up sleeping with her. Now some say this could be rape because no one disobeys the king but we are not told she resists
either way we know she is married so David has willfully committed a few sins here. The biggest being a sultry. Which according the law demanded David be stoned
but it does not stop here he finds out she gets pregnant. So David tried his best to get her husband to go against his morals and when he refuses he murders him. Another willful sin

What we see here is a man who is Gods child Commit the worse sins we can think of. Yet remember what God said many years earlier? David is a man after
My own heart. god said this KNOWING David would commit these sins many years in the future

David was punished for these sins. Although God did not enforce stoning like the law required

Jesus also bears the title sin of David even though David commuted this evil sins willfully and knowingly

This is how I believe avid treats all his children. He loves them. He chastens them (David did not go Unpunished ) and he completely saves them
David had eternal life. God did not remove that from him because Jesus would pay for hat sin like he paid for ours
Hebrews is not talking about that kind of sin it can’t be or god contradicts himself
 
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Christ died for all sin, but you know as well as I that the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit is not forgiven.
Your right. The sin of unbelief will
Never be forgiven
commuting a willful personal sin is nit blasphemy if the spirit if it was all of us would die

That's exactly what the author is saying in Heb. 10:26!

They accepted Christ and then turned and denied Him, embarrassing the Holy Spirit.
They never accepted Christ. Proven by the fact they later denied him
their faith was in the law. Not in Jesus. Like a dog they returned to there
Vomit. Because they were never born again in the first Place their faith had always been in the law and sacrifices not in Christ. And since they never truly experienced christ like all impostors they walk away as deeper unbelievers. That’s why they can nit be renewed to repentance. Because any chance they had if true repentance passed their hearts were truly hardened beyond repair now
when you taste something then determine it is not what you like. You will Never try it again
 
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@ameizhere i think of David

Here is a man at home thinking of himself and not out on the field with his troops as he should have been

In his fleshly thinking he sees a woman who is beautiful taking a bath

He sends for her and ends up sleeping with her. Now some say this could be rape because no one disobeys the king but we are not told she resists
either way we know she is married so David has willfully committed a few sins here. The biggest being a sultry. Which according the law demanded David be stoned
but it does not stop here he finds out she gets pregnant. So David tried his best to get her husband to go against his morals and when he refuses he murders him. Another willful sin

What we see here is a man who is Gods child Commit the worse sins we can think of. Yet remember what God said many years earlier? David is a man after
My own heart. god said this KNOWING David would commit these sins many years in the future

David was punished for these sins. Although God did not enforce stoning like the law required

Jesus also bears the title sin of David even though David commuted this evil sins willfully and knowingly

This is how I believe avid treats all his children. He loves them. He chastens them (David did not go Unpunished ) and he completely saves them
David had eternal life. God did not remove that from him because Jesus would pay for hat sin like he paid for ours
Hebrews is not talking about that kind of sin it can’t be or god contradicts himself
i agree with all you say but i just disagree that this means we are always saved. David chose to repent and God had mercy on Him. i backslid just one time and not habitually earlier this week for the first time in 5 months. i was devastated and God allowed me to feel sorrow and misery, i was weeping all day. however after that through fellowship He gave me hope that in His salvation it is possible for me to have mercy if i return to Him, which i did! :) and i thank Him that i did.
some people dont class david as saved before he sinned this way. not sure why - correct me anyone if i'm wrong but i think he was considered a righteous man? however, if he continued this way in sin, surely there would be no mercy
 

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Your right. The sin of unbelief will
Never be forgiven
commuting a willful personal sin is nit blasphemy if the spirit if it was all of us would die


They never accepted Christ. Proven by the fact they later denied him
their faith was in the law. Not in Jesus. Like a dog they returned to there
Vomit. Because they were never born again in the first Place their faith had always been in the law and sacrifices not in Christ. And since they never truly experienced christ like all impostors they walk away as deeper unbelievers. That’s why they can nit be renewed to repentance. Because any chance they had if true repentance passed their hearts were truly hardened beyond repair now
when you taste something then determine it is not what you like. You will Never try it again
How is it that they were never saved when Heb. 10:26 plainly says, "after that we have received the knowledge of the truth."

Come on now, e-g, you know what that means!