Hebrews 6:4 For it is
impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have
tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of
the Holy Ghost,
5 And have tasted the good word
of God, and the powers of the world to come,
6 If they shall fall away, to
renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to
themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him
to an open shame.
Is it possible that Jesus will keep
believers from the kind of falling from which they cannot
repent?
Psalms 37:24 Though he fall, he shall
not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand.
Psalms 145:14 The LORD upholdeth all
that fall, and raiseth up all those that be
bowed down.
Proverbs 24:16 For a just
man falleth seven times, and
riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into
mischief.
Daniel 11:35 And some
of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to
purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.
Micah 7:8 Rejoice not against me, O
mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in
darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto
me.
James 1:2 My brethren, count it
all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
Wasn't the church of the
Galatians bewitched by the heresy, no longer believing
in saving grace,
but
had gone back to justification by the law, instead?
Galatians 3:1 O foolish
Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not
obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been
evidently set forth, crucified among you?
Galatians 5:4 Christ is become of no
effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the
law; ye are fallen from grace.
Was the
church of the Galatians thus damned, impossible to repent
from?
If so,
then why did Paul bother to write the letter to them?
Hebrews 6
mentions that it would be impossible for someone to repent
from falling away like that.
So, if
someone is truly a believer, would then be impossible for
that person to undo the blood of Jesus?
If there is
no sin great enough that the blood of Jesus can forgive?
then
which sin is great enough for a believer to commit, that
would be more powerful than the blood of Jesus,
that
could undo the power of the blood, the power of the
adoption, and the power of the indwelling Holy Ghost?
Was not Paul
writing to the Hebrews, of which many were not believers,
and
that possibly Hebrews 6:4-6 rather like a rhetorical
question to the unbelieving Hebrews,
that
were refusing to give up justification by the law, for
trusting in Jesus?
After all,
the transition of the book of Acts was nearly finished,
and the temple soon to be destroyed by the Romans?
Wasn't the
book of Hebrews then, like a last chance to Israel to
believe the gospel, before 70 AD would come upon them?
So, wouldn't
that impossibility be for those Hebrews who had heard the
gospel,
and
seen the signs and wonders, and heard the people speaking
in tongues,
and
still refused to believe the gospel and to be saved by
grace through faith in Jesus,
by
instead going back to the law for justification, with a
temple about to be destroyed?