Faith Can Endure, Denying Deadly Sins




Transliteration happens when
someone looks at a foreign text 
and pronounces words using
phonetics from his or her own
mother language. Early Latin
(old Spanish) speakers are who
probably began using their
"hey" J sound in place of the
"yay" Y sound in sacred texts.
Then we, speaking English,
turned the "hey" to "jeh." But
the wonderful thing about that
is that God knows who we all
mean. God knows every heart,
which is one reason we don't
need to worry about the fate of
Ya-AH-kohv (Jacob), who was
favored, versus Ay-sow (Esau),
who only understood in the flesh
(Romans 10:6). Instead, all we
need do is trust in the same God
who used the old English, and to
some extent the French, to break
bonds of slavery by defying unjust
prison and death in translating
the sacred texts that eventully
were stood upon in breaking the
sin of slavery off of countless
backs. ... While some scholars may
look at Esau as an early example
of eternal doom, ignoring that Jacob
and Esau themselves lived side-by-side
at peace for many years, those scholars
point to how Esau's ancestors became
enemies of Jacob, or Israel, fighting to
the death. Yet, not worrying about
all that, we can just thank God today
for the better way in Jesus, who leads
souls away from deadly, unpardonable
sins. And what are unpardonable sins?
... As I understand, unpardonable sin
(Matthew12:31-32)
(absolutely damning sin), isn't
necessarily hating, cursing, judging,
envying, and destroying repeatedly
or without any heart to repent
(Matthew 18:15-18). But unpardonable
sin is having been told and convicted
in the Holy Spirit that all of the
above is wrong but then taking
that godly knowledge and twisting
it toward wickedness (Matthew 23:9),
specifically in order to kill or to deny
a person a faithful life, misusing
the Holy Spirit's instructions
without any heart to repent. Jesus
calls that blasphemy against the
Holy Spirit, and it results in willful
death (1 John 5:16).



Thank God I want or need peace with loved ones and with enemies (Matthew 10:36; Proverbs 16:7-8).

Thank Heavan I trust in Who gave us the love of Jesus (1 John 5:6). Thank God no one wants to kill.

And thank Heaven I can spot a few truths on a field laced with subtle errors (Proverbs 10:19).










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