MOBILE, Alabama – There was a time when suicide was considered so heinous a sin that it was unforgivable by God. But a better understanding of psychological causes over time has tempered that belief, ...

Q: I am afraid I may have committed the unpardonable sin, but I can’t find anyone who can really explain what that sin is? — R.J. A: When people cannot explain the unpardonable sin, it is unlikely ...

I have met a few people who actually believed that suicide was the unforgivable sin and that it would automatically send anyone to hell. Their reasoning was that, in the case of suicide, the ...

We all have the one sin that we consider completely unforgiveable. Not the ones we ourselves commit, although we have those, too, but the ones that others commit against us. Folks can wrong us in any ...

Q: What is the unforgivable sin? -- B., via e-mail A: There are many sins recounted in the Hebrew Bible but none are ever called unforgivable sins. Sometimes the punishment for sinning is death, but ...

DEAR DR. GRAHAM: Is there any sin that God can't forgive? I worry about this because I've led kind of a rough life, and I can't imagine God just wiping the slate clean, so to speak, and forgiving all ...

Mass shootings, war crimes and other deeds that shock the conscience seem to be transgressions against divine law, or sins, that are hard to forgive. This week’s clergy discuss how forgiveness can ...