No More Sacrifice For Sin
 

What are your thoughts on this verse?

Hbr 10:26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,

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I think it speaks of one who refuses to accept the chastening of the Lord, who,though warned and punished, continuies in disobedience, rebellion, unbelief, and unrepentance turned over to a rebrobate mind.

I don't think people can backslide and get saved again. I think we would classify someone as backslid, when many times they are being disobedient and subjecting themselves to the chaseting of God (such as David w/ Basheeba). BUT if one truly backslides and does get to the point spoken of in Hebrews 10:26, I think that is where the warning in Hebrews 6 comes in so strongly "it is impossible to rnew them to repentance..."

Basically in my view, I don't believe your once saved, always saved, nor do I believe salvation is so fickle that you (can possibly) posess it and lose it multiple times in a lifetime. I think once you have been saved, it is difficult to be lost, but still possible. But IF someone did lose their salvation, it would be impossible to "get saved again". I think the Bible backs up my point, though I admit this hasn't been one of the topics I've spent much time on.

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Do you think no more sacrifice are the key words?

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Remember, he was writing to the Jews. There are a few clues in the verses following the one that I've often heard quoted that give better understanding, at least in my opinion.

Adversaries? This indicates "sinning willfully" isn't just making a mistake or doing something that our conscience smites us for. (As a matter of fact if we are in the state he's talking about here, I doubt we'd feel remorse-since through it God would draw us back to Himself.)

Despised? Scorned. Spurned. Many Israelites did wrong. They complained. They worshiped idols. They doubted. There are only a few passages that record someone being put to death for their actions "under two or three witnesses" (indicating corporal punishment, not God's wrath as when the ground opened and swallowed them or they died by plagues or snakes). So this "willful sin" may not just be anything we hear condemned as sin today, as I've been often taught it was.

I believe this might show more what is being discussed. If the Jews converted to Christianity and then turned back to the law and denied Christ, they might border on doing these things. Yet I think even most of them didn't get to the point being described here.
Well, I'll let you do what you will with the bolded parts especially. This passage tormented me for a long time because I was taught if a person got the Holy Ghost they had to live perfect from then on or face judgment. That doesn't fit with the rest of the New Testament, though.

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OBAB.

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What are your thoughts? :)

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If we give up and turn our backs on all we've learned, all we've been given, all the truth we now know, we repudiate Christ's sacrifice and are left on our own to face the Judgment—and a mighty fierce judgment it will be! If the penalty for breaking the law of Moses is physical death, what do you think will happen if you turn on God's Son, spit on the sacrifice that made you whole, and insult this most gracious Spirit? This is no light matter. God has warned us that he'll hold us to account and make us pay. He was quite explicit: "Vengeance is mine, and I won't overlook a thing" and "God will judge his people." Nobody's getting by with anything, believe me.

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If we abandon and turn our backs on this Gospel, there is no other sacrifice for sin. We will be lost.

Habitual sin, is habitual unbelief, and if left unrepentant leads to unbelief. Outside of Jesus, there is no sacrifice.

(v31 was the text for the infamous "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" by Jonathan Edwards)

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That's my understanding of the passage.

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Well this is for my Sunday School lesson next week. The kids brought this question up. (I strongly encourage biblical questions to be brought up that we will all study together to find the truest interpretation)

I remember studying this before and I remember seeing something in it that was different than what taking that one verse on it's own seems to say. But, for the life of me, I'm drawing a blank so far.

I always find that when you open up a verse like this for discussion that in a spirit of discussion among several that we will all learn something.

So... to answer your question. My thoughts are that it probably isn't saying in context exactly what it appears to be saying on it's own which seems to be... that if one does something... anything... that they know is wrong then they can never be forgiven.