Originally posted by @eladar
You are blind or simply a liar.
Ad hom, but no effective rebuttal yet.
It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit, 5 who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age 6 and who have fallen[c] away, to be brought back to repentance.
I see that. And I think the context is that some of the Hebrew believers actually fell away to go back to Judaism. It is possible that some left the Christian assembly and tried to return to the animal sacrifices of the Old Testament.
Some perhaps DIED in that backslidden condition. That is Jewish followers of Jesus who fell away to try GO BACK to repenting the old way through animal sacrifices.
It is impossible.
It is not necessary.
It is not right.
It is not possible in that it is impossible that the old animal sacrifices would do the job that only the sacrifice of Christ Once For All could do.
Since going back to the old way is impossible now that Christ has come, the writer says
"For it is impossible to renew themselves unto repentance ... "
It is not right that they should TRY.
It is not necessary that they should TRY.
And it is not possible that they should TRY.
The backsliding is serious though and at the judgment seat of Christ for believers puts them
"NEAR ... a curse".
It does NOT say that they are CURSED. YOU imply that erroneously.
To their loss they are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting him to public disgrace.
This is indeed a serious offense. No one is saying that it is not a serious offense. But it is the WORKS that are burned up. And they are NEAR a curse and NOT actually CURSED for ever.
7 Land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is farmed receives the blessing of God. 8 But land that produces thorns and thistles is worthless and is in danger of being cursed. In the end it will be burned.
The worthless vegetation is burned up.
Those who fall away will be burned. They will be cast into the lake of fire.
IF they go eternally to the lake of fire then they are not NEAR a curse but actually CURSED. But it says they are NEAR a curse.
So if they are actually eternally cursed to perish forever then
John 10:28 would be Christ's lie.
"And I give to them eternal life, and they shall by no means perish forever, and no one shall snatch them out of My hand." (John 10:28)
"By NO MEANS PERISH FOREVER" means BY NO MEANS ... PERISH FOREVER.
So being NEAR a curse must be a temporary punishment.