I Can't Be Saved
Committed Terrible Sins
Some people believe they can't be saved because they have committed some terrible sins or lived a life as a criminal or committing terrible sins.
If you are one of those, you will probably be surprised to know that all the great people of the Bible also wire sinners and many in a huge way. David is the best example because he is "a man after God's own heart.1" David when he was the king watched a married woman, Bathsheba, who was "washing herself" (naked), had lust for her and decided to have sex with her. He sent his messenger to get her and had sex with her and then sent her home. As happens to often in life today in similar situations, she got pregnant! Her husband, Uriah, was away at a war and so he would know it wasn't his so David brought him home and told him to go home for a rest expecting he would then have sex with his wife and would not expect it wasn't his but Uriah refused to go home when the rest of the soldiers were in battle so David sent him back into battle with instructions to the commander to put him on the front lines so he would be killed. He was. David then took Bathsheba as his own wife. So David had lust, acted on it, committed adultery, tried to cover it up, and then committed murder. And yet David was still God's favorite2. David repented and begged God to forgive him. God did, but God is just and so punished David by making his son born from the adultery to get sick and die3.
So even though you are still responsible for the laws you break and sins you commit and you are likely to be punished for them here on earth, it still doesn't prevent you from being saved now. It doesn't matter if you murdered someone, robbed banks, raped, lie, bully, or anything else, you can still accept Christ as your savior and be saved. Once you are saved, you need to depend on God to help you change your life. God wants you after you are saved to become more like his Son, Jesus.
The Unpardonable Sin
Some people believe they have committed the unpardonable sin. They have heard or read of verses in the Bible that seem to say there is such a thing. Here are those verses:
Matthew 12:30-32 He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad. 31Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.
Mark 3:28-30 Verily I say unto you, All sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and blasphemies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme: 29But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation: 30Because they said, He hath an unclean spirit.
Luke 12:8-10 Also I say unto you, Whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God: 9But he that denieth me before men shall be denied before the angels of God. 10And whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but unto him that blasphemeth against the Holy Ghost it shall not be forgiven.
These three verses are talking about the Pharisees when they were claiming that when Jesus healed a man who was possessed by a demon that made him blind and mute that Jesus called on Satan to heal him and so attributed the work of the Holy Spirit to Satan. That only happened and only could happen while Jesus was on this earth since it was in regards specifically to what Jesus did. Since Jesus is not now on the earth, no person can commit that specific sin and so you cannot commit that unpardonable sin today.
Saved Once, Can't Be Saved Again
Like the unpardonable sin, people misunderstand a verse and conclude if they were saved once they can't be saved again. The verse for this confusion is:
Heb 6:4-6 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, 5And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, 6If 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.
As has been explained elsewhere, you have to consider what time frame the book or passage is for. It is not possible to lose your salvation once you are saved (see More About Salvation web page here) during this church age. So this is referring to the tribulation. The church is gone in the rapture so the requirement for salvation in the church age is not the same as during the tribulation. A person during the tribulation must endure until the end of it when Jesus comes back and trust in Jesus until then. They will see all kinds of miracles done during that period similar to the miracles that Jesus did when he was here on earth so if they see all those miracles and all the evidence and have the 144,000 witnesses preaching salvation through faith in Jesus, then trust in Jesus and after all that, then turn their back on Jesus and give in to the antichrist and Satan, that person will not get saved again. It isn't that they will change their mind twice, and want to get saved a second time after they change their mind and accept the anti-christ. One a person gets saved in the tribulation and then gets swayed to reject him and follow the antichrist, they WILL NOT change their mind again. It will be impossible for them to change their mind again.
So this verse does not have anything to do with a person losing their salvation and not being able to go back to being saved during this church age. Since a saved person during the church age cannot lose their salvation in the first place, it is not possible for them be in that position to be saved, unsaved, and then want to be saved again.
So there is nothing in the Bible that says there is any reason a person during this time can't be saved. ANY ONE CAN BE SAVED regardless of their past or anything they did or didn't do in the past.
NOW, go back to the Ultimate Truth web page, go through that again and accept Jesus Christ as your Savior.
1. 1 Samuel 13:14,
Acts 13:22
2. 2 Samuel 11:1-27
3. 2 Samuel 12:13-23