Sin Leading to Death
1 John 5:16
Posted
Thursday, August 31, 2006
by
Charlie Trimm
We are having a "question box" sermon on Sunday this week. We put out a box for the past two weeks and asked for theological and exegetical question. We get several good ones, and on one of them I wanted to gather opinions. The issue is 1 John 5:16. What is the sin leading to death? My take on the issue is that the death is spiritual death, and the first part of the verse refers to a true brother who is sinning, but not sinning in a consistent manner. The sin leading to death is the sin committed by a non-believer. This fits in with how death and life are used in the book as well as the common contrast in the book between the saved and the unsaved. But I'm still bothered by the command to not pray for the sin leading to death. The other main view takes death as bodily death.
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