The unpardonable sin.

Is there a sin? A sin so heinous that to do it is to have violated God so seriously that you can no longer be saved.

When you boil down and try to summarize the whole history of this podcast, which I was dumb enough to try and attempt.

This is likely the most commonly asked about question of all the questions that have ever come to us.

I'd say it is the existential dread that tops every other dread.

Have I committed the unpardonable sin because of something

I said or something I did in my past that was so heinous and so wicked and so premeditated

that surely there is no longer any hope of forgiveness for me? A lot of ground has already been

covered here from so many different angles, so much I had to make two different sections in the APJ book to cover it, pages 323 to 326 and 337 to 339.

That's the way you'll find summaries.

We return to the theme in this email from an anonymous woman.

Pastor John, I have carried the weight and guilt of a past sin for many years,

feeling like I am unforgivable.

No matter how much I beg for forgiveness or repent,

I feel as though I can't be saved because of what I did.

Reading about Paul being called the world's worst sinner has encouraged me,

but the feeling of being

unaccepted and facing inevitable judgment still lingers. To give some context, I once believed in God,

but experienced doubts during a college biology class, which led me to intentionally turn away from him.

I essentially told Jesus to leave me so that I could engage in sinful activities without feeling

guilty, and I truly felt like he left me to my sin as I requested.

Now I deeply regret that decision and long for a close relationship with Jesus again.

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