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NASB | Hebrews 10:26 ¶ For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Hebrews 10:26 ¶ For if we go on willfully and deliberately sinning after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice [to atone] for our sins [that is, no further offering to anticipate], |
Bible Question: Mormons point to Heb. 10:26 and say that it means we can lose our salvation if we deliberatly sin. Is that what this vs means? |
Bible Answer: As I understand this difficult verse, I must embrace the love of God and His great unexplainable mercy, that is to those are "genuinely His". Therefore, I submit that this verse deals with those who have once enjoyed or tasted the "good word of God" [Heb.6:5] which is the "power of God for salvation" [Rms.1:16]but have rejected the "power of it" that is to say;by continuing in sin they are not allowing the "seed", the "word" of God,(which is spirit and life) to take root on "good ground"[Mat.13:23]nor by the "watering of the word" till "Christ to be formed" them.[Gal.4;19] Knowing this, try to understand the principle of "some plant..some water but God gives the increase". Paul, addresses that "faith comes by hearing and hearing the word.."[Rms.10:17]It is by grace through "faith" that your saved, this faith produces "good fruit" which is evidence of Christ being formed in you. Now if Christ is formed in you, then does Christ sin? No. Therefore, this text is, in certain ways, telling those who "proclaimed" to know Christ and "honored Him with their lips" that "their heart is far from Him", they had no power to "resist" sinning. You may ask, when does Christ form in you? This is a difficult, but just as the farmer plants his crop, does he know when that seed takes form in the ground? He waits and see's the result in that which he planted. Some seeds do not make it to "fruitation" and die. That is why Paul says, "be not conformed to this world, but be "transformed" by the renewing of your mind" and "examine yourselves" and Peter says to; "be dilligent to make you calling and election sure"[2Pet.1:10] Jesus says for those who are His,(abide in Him) must "bear much fruit" and those who do not, in essence, "are cast out". There is much to say on this difficult topic, I hope you have understood in part the theme of what "true salvation" is as to what "tares" are and what it means to be truly "born again" by the Spirit, the "seeds of faith". I leave you with this; "Do not decieved, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap." Gal 6:7. |