Yes actual sin is always a choice..however..
....I believe ANY human can not help but sin because they are born alienated from God, spiritually dead....Adam and Eve were in intimate relationship with God but their sin brought
ALL under condemnation...to me that means they were aliened and until Jesus came there was no hope for mankind.
curly sue (07-22-2016)
But that passage is not talking about salvation. It is talking about those who have receiving the knowledge of the truth. That is not synonymous with being saved. Hebrews is not written to the Church per se. It is written to Messianic Jews AND it is written to Jews who may have heard the truth and even acknowledged the Gospel as true but have chosen to continue in their sin, namely continue trusting in the OT sin offering (which was still in force at the time Hebrews was written).
What we have here is a warning about apostasy. Apostates are not ex-Christians. They are people who have mentally assented to the truth, but fail to actually embrace it. They may participate in the external Christian community and have experienced blessings associated with that participation, but have, like Peter says, "returned to their vomit." Once you know the truth and reject what you know to be true, according to this passage, there is nothing left for you.
Trying to assign this to saved people who are a transformed, recreated people simply doesn't wash. Genuine followers of Jesus never apostatize.
Hebrews 6:4-6
(4) 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,
(5) And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,
(6) If 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.
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity (futility) of their mind, having the understanding darkened...
(Ephesians 4:17-18)
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly...
(Psalm 1)
Quest (07-22-2016)
Yes GIMJ that's what's written in Hebrews but it is easily understood as referring to those not yet saved or "presents an argument based on a false premise ... and follows it to its senseless conclusion" (See http://www.gotquestions.org/Hebrews-6.html and https://defendingcontending.com/2010...6-mean-anyway/)
So following the idea of 2Cor 13:1 that "In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established" to scripture (See http://www.logosapostolic.org/bible_...eWitnesses.htm) are there another two or three scriptures that speak to this and clearly support Heb 6 as saying that a believer can lose his salvation?
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity (futility) of their mind, having the understanding darkened...
(Ephesians 4:17-18)
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly...
(Psalm 1)
Quest (07-22-2016)
Infants arent conceived or born with the Holy Spirit, that is true. Even if an infant dies without having made a choice to sin it would still have made that choice some time during eternity so everyone needs to be brought under the rule of Jesus and receive the Holy Spirit and sanctification. Without Jesus, we are all lost to sin ultimately.
GodismyJudge (07-22-2016)