In Numbers 15:30-31, God revealed that the person who sins presumptuously will never be forgiven. A presumptuous sin, by God's definition, means a sin for which one never repents. God said "...that soul shall utterly be cut off: his iniquity shall be upon him." That type of condemnation can only be eternal. Presumptuous sins stem from Adam's sin because Adam knew fully well the commandment of God but he willfully violated it anyway. I Timothy 2:14. Presumptuous sins stem directly from Satan's rebellion and are always totally evil. In the end, God will consign all total evil in the Devil and in man to the lake of fire forever.
God provided an example of His punishment for a presumptuous sin in Numbers 15:32-36. God did not command Moses to offer an animal sacrifice for the forgiveness for the man who picked up sticks on the Sabbath. God ordered Moses to have this man stoned to death because God knew that he had deliberately violated God's law, and he had no sorrow for it.
Adam did not sin solely because of weakness as Eve had. There were two extremes to Adam's sin. At one extreme was the presumptuous sin of willful disobedience. This condition accounts for man's inheritance of the sins of atheism, deliberate cruelty, idolatry, and hatred of God. Very seldom does one who practises these sins repent. God never forgives a total rejection of His Love. Matthew 12:31-32.
The other extreme of Adam's sin consisted of sacrificial love. God's Love always trumps sin. Proverbs 10:12; I Corinthians 13:7-8. Man's love can mitigate sin but never abolish it. Adam fell because he loved his wife and wanted to be with her in her fallen condition. In this regard, Adam prefigured a Savior who would come to fallen mankind with all the power of Love and self-sacrifice needed to raise man again to his place of favored fellowship and reconciliation with God. I Corinthians 15:44-49; I Corinthians 15:20-22; Romans 5:12-21.
God did forgive Adam's willful and deliberate sin because he repented. By faith, Adam and Eve accepted God's provision for the forgiveness of their sins when they allowed God to clothe them with the animal skins that God had sacrificed for them. God will forgive any person's willful and deliberate sin when they repent and accept God's provision for it by faith. When a willful sinner repents and demonstrates his helplessness and weakness before God, then God will always change his willful sin which He cannot forgive to one of weakness which He can forgive. For this reason, even the worst sinner who hates God can be forgiven and reconciled to God. But this event seldom happens. Matthew 12:31-32 is not about a sin which only the Pharisees could commit. In these verses, Jesus describes the fate of any person who totally hates God and forever rejects His Love. This kind of sin is totally evil and allied with Satan. God never forgives total sin. God will judge all total evil and deadness to be cast into the lake of fire forever. Revelation 19:20; Revelation 20:10; Revelation 20:15; Revelation 21:8; Genesis 3:21.
But before God condemns total evil, He will effect a general resurrection of all mankind not saved by grace. God will use His consuming fire to dissolve all individual human systems in order to recover the good elements He put into them to recreate a new, righteous human race to live on His recreated, righteous earth. He will condemn the total evil within them to the lake of fire forever. John 5:28-29; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12.
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