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Question 326: What Is The “Sin Unto Death”?

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It is believed to be the sin against Ruach HaKodesh which tends toward or is destined to result in spiritual death. Several commentators make it quite distinct from what is known as the "unpardonable sin" - which is believed to have been attributing the Spirit's marvellous work to satanic agencies. Alford makes it the act of "openly denying Yeshua to be the Moshiach, the Son of YHVH." Such wilful deniers are not to be received into one's house (see 2 John verses 10 and 11). The apostle's meaning is evidently that this chief sin is one by which faith and love are destroyed and the new life killed by a palpable rejection of grace. When such a person knowingly thrusts spiritual life from Him, no human intercession can avail. See James 5:14, 18; Matthew 12:31, 32, as to the obstinate rejection of Ruach HaKodesh's plain testimony to the Divine Moshiach. Yeshua on the cross pleaded for those who knew not what they did in crucifying Him, not for those wilfully resisting grace.