While our desire is to assure ImOneOddCooki that he has not committed the unpardonable sin, there is another category that can be mentioned in Hebrews 10:
26 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries.
28 Anyone who has rejected Moses’ law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
29 Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace?
30 For we know Him who said, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” says the Lord. And again, “The Lord will judge His people.”
31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
--- If a person accepts Jesus Christ as his Savior and Lord, and has received 'the knowledge of the truth,' or has tasted the 'awareness of God,' --- and then willfully turns from it to denounce what he has received and to deny the Gospel, and the saving power of Jesus Christ through His death on the cross, --- then there is not another way to be saved. --- He has removed himself from the way to eternal life.
--- We are to be our brother's keeper by prayer and supplication, but:
It says in 1 John 5:16 If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin which does not lead to death, he will ask, and He will give him life for those who commit sin not leading to death. --- There is sin leading to death. I do not say that he should pray about that. --- 17 All unrighteousness is sin, and there is sin not leading to death.
--- Unrighteousness can be repented of and forgiven, but the sin unto death can refer to those who have denounced their faith and are unrepentant.
(This can bring up the debate of "Once saved always saved," --- or "You can be saved and lost again.") --- It says in John 10:27 "My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. 28 And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father’s hand. "
--- At this time Judas was still with the disciples as one of them, --- so did he take himself out of the hand of God to be called the 'son of perdition?' --- John 17:12.
So, while no one else can pluck us out of the Father's hand, --- we can take ourselves out, can we not? By the denunciation of our faith? --- And then 'we fall into the hands of the living God.'
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