WHAT DO YOU MEAN... "THE UNPARDONABLE SIN"? - Herbert W Armstrong - April 1967

Herbert W Armstrong

Can a Christian commit a SIN, AND STILL BE A CHRISTIAN? Or would this be "the unpardonable sin"? Or would it prove he never was a Christian? Thousands worry, because they do not UNDERSTAND what IS the sin that shall never be forgiven. Not so long ago, a professing Christian - a prominent churchman, of what denomination I never knew - was murdered for allegedly committing adultery. Many said, "That man was no Christian! No real Christian could ever commit adultery." I never knew the man. I merely read of it in the newspapers. It is not for me to judge whether he had ever been really a Christian - Of, for that matter, whether he was guilty of the alleged adultery. But, as a hypothetical case, what if a professing Christian did commit adultery? Would that prove he never was a Christian? Or, suppose he had been a genuinely converted man, utterly sincere in his Christian life, and that he did commit the adultery. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library