Salvation through Faith and Repentance part one

Humans are condemned to sin. Humans have a sin nature which compels us to sin. Sin is unavoidable. We humans have compassion for afflicted people. We do not blame an autistic person for not being able to relate well with others. God gave us this compassion, so certainly our God of infinite compassion cannot blame humans for committing sins that we cannot avoid. One of the reasons Adam and Eve sinned was because of weakness which persists in humanity to this day. Sooner or later, God always forgives sins of weakness in every human. Luke 23:34.

But humans also possess free will. This fact means that we possess the ability to commit a type of sin for which we can be held fully responsible. We are never compelled to commit this sin. It remains strictly our choice. Humans can freely choose to give in to sin and deliberately practice cruelty and evil. Humans can join with Satan in his rebellion against God. Eve displayed this type of sin when she selfishly gave the forbidden fruit to her husband. Adam displayed this type of sin when he knowingly and deliberately disobeyed God. Jesus described this type of sin in Matthew 12:31-32. God relates to fallen man through His Spirit. To reject the Holy Spirit means one has rejected God. God never forgives this sin of rebellion nor does it ever desire forgiveness. This rebellious evil constitutes the spiritual deadness of man which God will cast into the lake of fire in the end. Revelation 20:15.

God will forgive this sin of rebellion if one repents of it. Faith and repentance is the key. If one repents of one's evil and appeals to the grace and mercy of God, God will forgive because of one's weakness and ignorance. One can never be compelled to surrender to evil, but ignorance and weakness can cause one to be tempted to do so. I Timothy 1:12-14; II Corinthians 12:9. A sin of rebellion against God reverts to a sin of weakness if one humbles oneself to God and puts one's trust in His grace and mercy. A true sin of rebellion never repents, and God never forgives it. Lucifer did not repent and will never repent. For this reason, God stripped him of all the goodness God put into his system and condemned him to earth as a one-hundred-per cent evil system called Satan. Ezekiel 28:13-19.

Jesus displayed great anger toward religious leaders who had become self-righteous and cruel. These corrupt leaders had invented their own set of rules, and they ignored the Word of God in order to justify their own greed and cruelty. All the while, they prayed long prayers in public and put on a show of righteousness to earn the praise of men. In practice, they actually no longer believed in the merciful and loving God. They actually practiced the sin of rebellion against the true and living God. Matthew 23. Jesus warned them that as long as they remained in a state of rebellion, God would never forgive them. Matthew 23:33.