Bible Question: I always saw receiving the "mark of the beast" as a form of blasphemy. Therefore there can be no forgiveness of this. What are your thoughts on this? Could this be where the belief came from that there will be a time when God's heart is hardened? Can someone receive the mark and still be saved? |
Bible Answer: If I may I would like to respond to one part of your question. You asked, in part, "Could this be where the belief came from that there will be a time when God's heart is hardened?" . . . It would seem that the belief that there will be a time when God's heart is hardened came originally from Gen. 6:3, Genesis having been written some 1500 years before Revelation. . . . Gen 6:3 (ASV) "And Jehovah said, My spirit shall not strive with man for ever, for that he also is flesh: yet shall his days be a hundred and twenty years." |