I agree with you.
Sins that we commit and know we are, well they are wilful sins.
Then some say that we can commit sins of ignorance and in fact they are not sins?
I don't get that, I really don't.
Yes we can commit sins of ignorance but a sacrifice still had/has to be made.
Leviticus 5:17-19
17 “If a person sins, and commits any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the Lord, though he does not know it, yet he is guilty and shall bear his iniquity. 18 And he shall bring to the priest a ram without blemish from the flock, with your valuation, as a trespass offering. So the priest shall make atonement for him regarding his ignorance in which he erred and did not know it, and it shall be forgiven him. 19 It is a trespass offering; he has certainly trespassed against the Lord.”
With regard to wilful sin there is a wilful sin that cannot be forgiven.
Numbers 15:30-31
Law Concerning Presumptuous Sin
30 ‘But the person who does anything presumptuously, whether he is native-born or a stranger, that one brings reproach on the Lord, and he shall be cut off from among his people. 31 Because he has despised the word of the Lord, and has broken His commandment, that person shall be completely cut off; his guilt shall be upon him.’ ”
15:30, 31 The Hebrew phrase translated presumptuously means “with a high hand,” with open disdain for the will and work of God. This is a sin that is done, as it were, while looking God in the eye and shaking one’s fist at Him. (NKJV study notes)
The Sprit of Grace
Zechariah 12:10
Mourning for the Pierced One
10 “And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will look on Me whom they pierced. Yes, they will mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son, and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn.
In Numbers 15:31 Despised the word of God.
John 1:1-5
The Gospel According to
JOHN
Chapter 1
The Eternal Word
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. 4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.
The word of God is Jesus.
The study notes for Numbers above "disdain for the will and work of God"
What is the will of God?
2 Peter 3:9
9 The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.
What is the work of God?
John 6:29
29 Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent.”
There are those who say to sin wilfully as believers fall foul of the Hebrews passage being discussed.
Ans therefore no sacrifice remains for their sins.
Yes Paul's talks about the sins of the flesh, how those who continue do so will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
But he also says "This is what you were, now behave in what you are now"
"You are in Jesus now walk like him"
Now let's say and be honest we all have stuff we find difficult to overcome, but if we are truly in Jesus we keep coming before him and asking for help, saying "I don't want to be like this, why am I like this?
Now if someone feels that if a believer has a problem with an addiction but falls time and time again and it's a wilfull sin then no sacrifice remains for forgiveness of it therefore going to hell.
Thats not true because that is to deny
1 John 1:9
9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
To me wilful sin is to reject Jesus full stop. To reject his atonement for our sin, to reject the word of God.
With a high hand and saying "The sacrifice Jesus made was not enough and I reject it, the one who was pierced on the cross so that the spirit of grace may save me was not enough"
It has nothing to do with a struggle with sin but rejecting the answer to hope of our struggle. That's basic at its very sense.
To reject the word is to reject Jesus, to reject Jesus, the sacrifice he made, to trample under foot the Son of God and count the blood covenant by which we are sanctified as not worthy.
That is wilful sin and that is what a person will be judged on.
My simple thoughts