3918 - Backsliding by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Nov 26, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 46.

3918 — Backsliding

By Editor

Does Heb. 10:26-31 mean that if we have a knowledge of the truth and backslide, there is no forgiveness?

No, it does not. Some of the strongest pleas that there are in the whole Word are made to backsliders. Read Jeremiah chapters 2 and 3. Read the whole of Hosea, in which God pleads again and again with backsliding Ephraim. The conditions presented in the above scripture show not simply a backsliding, but an utter turning away from the only means that God has of reaching souls — His Spirit-filled Word and the Lord Jesus Christ. There is hope for the backslider. Listen: "Who is a God like unto Thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? He retaineth not His anger forever, because He delighteth in mercy. He will turn again, He will have compassion upon us; He will subdue our iniquities; and Thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea."