So a friend and I were talking tonight about the idea of unforgiveable sins in Christianity. According to conventional Christianity there are certain sins that can not be forgiven whic begs the questions, does the atonement of Christ not cover these sins? So if the atonement does not cover these sins, then is it because Christ was not capable to pay the price for these sins? Or if the atonment does cover these sins is it a matter of choice of whether or not the atonement will be applied to these sins.
Of course murder is one of the "unforgiveable" sins, but one only needs look so far as Paul, or Saul, to see a person who took part in the killing of innocents. Whether or not Paul comitted murder is a sound discusion, but does it point to a contradiction between what we take to be unforgiveable, and the sins of one whose writings we take as scripture?
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For the relationship between unforgivable sin and atonement, depends, I think, on what one thinks the atonement does.
I'm not sure where you're getting 'unforgivable sin' equals murder from. According to the Bible, the unforgivable sin is rebellion against the Holy Spirit; most theologians believe this has something to do with the nature of the sin itself; that is, denying the Holy Spirit eliminates the means of forgiveness.
For Joseph Smith, in the King Follet Discourse, this sin meant denial of the capacity to learn.
I might be wrong, and probably am, but I thought I learned in Sunday School that the three unforgiveable sins were murder, adultry, and denial of the holy ghost but I have only found scriptural evidence of the last.
Ah, Sunday School. That explains it. Heh. There's scripture in the D&C which seems to imply this, and many people interpret the Book of Mormon to indicate that sexual sin is 'the sin next to murder.' Personally, I believe the last is a misinterpretation.
Do you happen to know where in D&C and the Book of Mormon those references are? Is it weird it is acceptable to say D&C and not BoM?
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