Does Hebrews 10 say if we willfully sin after being saved there is no more forgiveness?
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Once elect always elect. Jesus doesn't lose sheep, its just sometimes what look a lot like sheep end up being goats. Sadly.
But God's foreknowdge is infallible.
Yes, Paul seems to be making the point that sin can be overcome by walking in the spirit. He doesn't end what he's saying after he explains his struggle with sin.
Those God "foreknew" (Romans 8 and Romans 11) in the literal context of Romans are the Jews.
God formerly knew the Jews as shown in the former covenant (Exodus 24) and the Gentiles never knew God previously.
Please read the two verses below.
I ask then: Did God reject his people? By no means! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of
Benjamin. God did not reject his people, whom he foreknew (Romans 11:1-2).
Did God reject his people?
Are you a Hebrew?Wuut?!? The Book of Hebrews wasn't written for the Gentiles?!!??!
The Lord chose the twelve.
Yet, one of those twelve future apostles betrayed Jesus.
Even Peter denied Jesus three times and ran away just like the rest of the twelve.
Jesus chose the entire nation of Israel but the entire nation of Israel rejected Jesus.
There are Gentile nations that once had churches dotted across their country, but now have no Christian churches.
Your saved as long as you continue calling on the name of Jesus.
Should you walk away from Jesus then you become unsaved i.e., no longer calling on the name of Jesus.
Then your reading a letter that was written to someone else.
Well, that is not what the Scriptures say, but since I was once taught to believe as you do, I understand/empathize with your bias,
but I have no more to say on the subject at this time, so I will wish you happy trails until we talk again.
I was responding to your statement about God's culpability, which you didn't address. Did God create hell or not? Whose decision was it that sinners should suffer in hell?
But earlier you mentioned the plain meaning of the text. It seems to me that Jesus taught two things relevant to our discussion: a man must be born again in order to see the kingdom of heaven; those whom God gives to Jesus will receive eternal life. This suggests that mankind is not morally neutral. God gives some rebirth and some he doesn't. God gives some to Jesus and some not.
To answer the larger question, Hebrews 10:26 can not be used as a proof text to argue that someone can lose his or her salvation.
"God invites/calls/urges everyone to satisfy His condition for heaven/forgiveness/salvation" and "unrepentant sinners send themselves to hell" means they are culpable, not God, because their decision contradicted God's will (1Tim. 2:3-4).
God created souls having the option/MFW/choice/decision whether or not to separate themselves from God's love, joy and peace aka heavenly fellowship, thereby resulting in experiencing the opposite enmity: hatred, misery and strife or actualization of hell.
Jesus plainly taught (in John 3:16, cf. 1Tim. 2:3-4) that every sinner may repent, seek and be born again/saved/see heaven/be given to Him/receive eternal life.
Heb. 10:19-39 and 6:4-6 clearly teach that saints/saved sinners can repudiate their saving faith/commit apostasy and therefore be destroyed/condemned.
They send themselves to hell? That isn't how it works. God sends them to Hell. Right?
So why do they all choose rebellion against God? What good did it do for them to freely choose rebellion?
Did Jesus say that the born again experience is freely chosen or did he say it was an activity of the Spirit?
Right, as we agreed everyone, left to themselves, choses rebellion.
Paul wrote the book of Hebrews to the Hebrews, which is why it contains issues that they are familiar with such as the Day of Atonement etc. He is talking to them about issues related to the Gospel which is why the Gentiles can benefit from reading and studying the Book.Wuut?!? The Book of Hebrews wasn't written for the Gentiles?!!??!
Nope, unrepentant sinners reap what they sow. They sow evil and earn hell.
Why they do this/refuse to repent was a mystery to Jesus and Paul per Matt. 13:14-15 = Acts 28:26-27.
Repentant sinners are born again by freely cooperating with God's HS.
All humans exercise MFW by choosing to sin, and all may choose to repent and cooperate with God's POS,
which is why they justly experience/reap wrath when they refuse to do so.
God is not blamable, although those in hell wish they had never been born/created.
You are talking about two different things: consequences and punishment. The expression "reap what they sow" addresses consequences. If I sow a weed seed, I will reap weeds. If I sow an apple seed, I will reap apples. The consequences are predictable.
Hell is for those who are suffering punishment for rebellion against God.
Your view that people are repentant before they are born again is unsupported by the Biblical text, which is probably why you don't understand that God can save anyone, any time. And apparently you don't understand what it means to be born again.
You said: All humans exercise MFW by choosing to sin, and all may choose to repent and cooperate with God's POS,
In Jesus' view, a person doesn't even recognize the evidence or understand the issue of salvation without the Spirit opening their eyes. Jesus performed miracles so that people would know that he came from God and was telling the truth about sin and judgment, and one would expect that if a person understood the danger, they would believe Jesus and follow him. But according to Jesus, a person doesn't even recognize that they need a savior or that Jesus is the savior they need unless and until the Holy Spirit opens their eyes.
Jesus is talking about a miracle transformation of the inner man. And since it is a miracle that anyone believes that Jesus is Lord and Savior, then God can perform this miracle for anyone he chooses. Theoretically, he could do this for each and every person in the world if it pleased him. Choosing to repent comes AFTER this
Heb 10:29 seems to stand out as to warrant careful pause for deeper consideration rather than treating it as any sort of "plain reading."
Is it a statement? Not exactly, as even as the statement is true, it may not necessarily be the case, that is, if grace so much more abounds it has been so rumored.
Reaping IS the punishment/hell, which is logical/predictable for the reasons I stated.
Your view that people are born again before they repent is nutso per Scripture: Matt. 4:17, 7:7, John 3:1-6, Rom. 2:4-5.
In Jesus' view, the HS wants to open everyone's eyes, but some like yourself refuse to see (1Tim. 2:3-4, John 3:16, Matt. 23:37)
because they are blinded/brain-washed by tulipism. Who did that to you? (The Baptists did that to me re the P/OSAS.)
Yes, Jesus performed miracles to prove He is Messiah and many STILL refused to satisfy God's condition/IF, believe and be saved
(Matt. 13:14-15, John 8, esp. 42-44).
Yes, God could force everyone to "believe", but unfree faith is fake/robotic.