Sin Cannot Take Any Man To Hell But Unbelief?

Sin Cannot Take Any Man To Hell But Unbelief?

You must have heard some so called "grace" preachers teaching that sin cannot take any man to hell but unbelief.

Now this sounds very logical and scripturally sound, yet it takes gross biblical ignorance laced with spiritual conceit to make such a statement/assertion.

The sting of death is sin(1st Corinthians 15:56)

The wages of sin is death(Romans 6:23), and it is both the natural death which came into the world on account of sin and the second death which is eternal damnation in the lake of fire(Revelation 20:14).

To assert that sin cannot take any man to hell is to assert that the sting of death is no longer sin and the wages of sin has ceased to be death.

One would have to write his own bible to uphold such nonsense.

If sin takes no one to hell, let us eat and drink, revel in iniquity & have fun with no restraint, for to morrow we die. 

The apostolic rebuke of scripture to such falsehood & disposition of lasciviousness is: "Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame." 1st Corinthians 15:32-34.

Now scripture defines sin as lawlessness or transgression of the law(1st John 3:4) so Romans 2:12 speaks of those who sinned without the law & them that sinned in the law, and in the next chapter declares that all have sinned & fallen short of God's glory(3:23). The inspired apostle goes on much later to show the connection of sin with unbelief, declaring in the 32nd verse of the 11th chapter God has concluded all in unbelief, both Gentiles who are without the law & Jews who are under the law. Of this in Galatians 3:22 he says "the scripture has concluded all under sin".

God concluding all in unbelief is thus = to God concluding all under sin.

Every sin stems from unbelief and God has not left himself without a witness in any generation, to answer to unbelief in the hearts of men.

Even creation itself bears witness of him, his eternal power and Godhead such that none is left with any excuse 👇🏼

Romans 1:18-20

"For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;  Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse"

In John 16:8-9, Jesus speaking of the Holy Spirit said: "And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin....Of sin, because they believe not on me."

Jesus identifies unbelief in Him as a fundamental sin that the Holy Spirit will expose & reprove, thus unbelief itself is a sin.

In John 15:22 Jesus speaks specifically of the sin of unbelief when he said👇🏼

"If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin."

He surely didn't mean that they were sinless/free of sin before he came & spoke to them, but that they could not be charged with the sin of unbelief if he had not come, spoken to them and they rejected him having not believed in him nor in his words.

Sin stems from unbelief, just as the root of obedience is faith, the root of sin is unbelief.

Fom Genesis, we see how it is unbelief that led to sin/transgression.

God had commanded man saying "Of every tree of the garden you shall freely eat but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die."(Genesis 2:16-17).

Satan shows up in the serpent to twist what God had said and subtly introduce/sell a lie to man. By insinuating a total restriction from God to present or paint the picture of God as a tyrant to man, he succeeded in raising suspicion in the heart of man; making him think that God knows what is good for him and what will elevate his status to become like God in knowing good & evil but deliberately wants to hide/keep it from him by commanding him not to eat of the tree.

That suspicion bred doubt and unbelief in what God had said is the penalty for disobedience..."ye shall surely die". Man rather believed the lie the serpent sold to him: "ye shall not surely die", and that opened the way of sin/transgression against God's commandment.

If man was strongly and unshakably convicted of what God had said, he wouldn't have dared to stretch forth his hand to eat of the tree.

Unbelief is clearly the absence of a heart conviction/faith in the word of God or in the reality of God's existence. He who has heard the word of God preached to him and has no heart conviction is bound in unbelief as much as much as the atheist who probably has not heard the word preached to him but has resolved in his heart that there's no God spite of the ample witness of God in creation.

We must be unshakably convicted of the verdict of the word of God; established, steadfast, grounded and settled in the faith of Christ, to remain off the path of the natural/old man that is plagued with the sin of unbelief & thus cannot please God.