Reversionism is a state that can occur in either a believer's or an unbeliever's life. It is a state of immersing yourself in obedience and slavery to the old sin nature of the flesh, to the point that you obey it's every whim. Reversionism in the unbeliever leads to homosexuality, bestiality, drug abuse, alcoholism, and so on. In the believer reversionism leads to the same things as in the unbeliever, but it also leads to severe Divine Discipline, and eventual premature physical death (called the Sin unto Death). Unbelievers avoid reversionistic traits by obedience to their conscience (morality) and by, hopefully, coming to accept Jesus Christ as Savior. Unbelievers almost never escape reversionism once they start on it's path unless they accept Christ as Savior, and receive the gracious provisions of the Holy Spirit. Believers avoid reversionism by obedience to their conscience, following the Holy Spirit's leading, and by dedication to study of the Word of God. Once a believer enters the pathway of reversionism he can only get off this path by a diligent act of repentance (go here to study this doctrine, but remember to use your BACK button to return to this study); turning back to following the leading of the Spirit and diligent study of God's Word. The longer you remain in carnality, the harder it is to return from reversionism. The easiest course is, never to enter that state at all!

SHALL BRING IN DAMNABLE HERESIES (HAIRESEIS, PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHT, FALSE DOCTRINES),

EVEN DENYING THE LORD THAT BOUGHT (AGORASANTA, REDEEM. CHRIST PAID THE PENALTY FOR ALL, WHETHER THEY ACCEPT IT OR NOT. THE ONLY SIN ACCOUNTABLE NOW IS FAILURE TO ACCEPT CHRIST AS SAVIOUR)

THEM, AND BRING UPON THEMSELVES SWIFT (TACHINEN, SUDDEN)

DESTRUCTION (APOLEIAN, SPIRITUAL DESTRUCTION OR RUIN, DESTRUCTION FROM POSSIBILITY OF SALVATION) .

[2] AND MANY SHALL FOLLOW THEIR PERNICIOUS (ASELGEIAIS, FILTHY, SHAMEFUL, LUSTFUL, SEXUAL DEBAUCHED, ALSO USED IN 1 PETER 4.3;2 PETER 2.7;RO 13.13;2 CO 12.21;GAL 5.19;EPH 4.19;JUDE 4)

WAYS; BY REASON OF WHOM THE WAY OF TRUTH SHALL BE EVIL SPOKEN OF. [3] AND THROUGH COVETOUSNESS SHALL THEY WITH FEIGNED WORDS (PLASTOIS LOGOIS, PLASTIC WORDS, FABRICATED WORDS)

MAKE MERCHANDISE (EMPOREUSONTAI, TO COMMERCIALIZE, BUY, SELL, TRADE)

OF YOU; WHOSE JUDGMENT (KRIMA, JUDGE DOWN, CONDEMNATION)

NOW OF A LONG TIME LINGERETH NOT, AND THEIR DAMNATION (APOLEIA, SPIRITUAL DESTRUCTION)

SLUMBERETH NOT (OU NYSTAZEI, HAS NOT BEEN SLEEPING).

[4] FOR IF GOD SPARED NOT THE ANGELS THAT SINNED, BUT CAST THEM DOWN TO HELL (TARTARUS, WHERE SOME OF THE FALLEN ANGELS WERE IMMEDIATELY CAST UPON THEIR REBELLION AGAINST GOD. SEE GENESIS 6.2 AND JUDE 6)

AND DELIVERED THEM INTO CHAINS OF DARKNESS, TO BE RESERVED UNTO JUDGMENT.....[7] AND DELIVERED JUST (DIKAION, JUSTIFIED. LOT WAS NOT A PARTICULARLY STRONG OR BEAUTIFUL BELIEVER, BUT HE WAS SAVED)

LOT, VEXED (KATAPONOUMENON, TORMENTED, OPPRESSED)

WITH THE FILTHY CONVERSATION (EN ASELGEIA, SEXUAL DEBAUCHERY OR WICKEDNESS)

OF THE WICKED: [8] (FOR THAT RIGHTEOUS MAN DWELLING AMONG THEM, IN SEEING AND HEARING VEXED (EBASANIZEN, TORTURED, TORMENTED)

HIS RIGHTEOUS SOUL FROM DAY TO DAY WITH THEIR UNLAWFUL DEEDS (ANOMOIS, WITHOUT ANY STANDARD OR LAW, GROUP OR DIVINE).

[9] THE LORD KNOWETH HOW TO DELIVER THE GODLY OUT OF TEMPTATIONS, AND TO RESERVE (TEREIN, KEEP UNDER GUARD)

THE UNJUST UNTO THE DAY OF JUDGMENT TO BE PUNISHED (PARTICIPLE KOLAZOMENOUS, PUNISHING, INJURING).

NOTE: THE GREAT WRITE THRONE JUDGMENT IS COMING (REVELATION 20.11-15), BUT GOD CONTINUES THE REVERSIONISTIC UNBELIEVERS PUNISHMENT IN THIS LIFE (ROMANS 1.27), AND WILL CONTINUE THEIR PUNISHMENT AFTER DEATH IN HADES (LUKE 16.23).

SIN A SIN (HAMARTANONTA HAMARTIAN, NO INDEFINITE ART IN GK TEXT. BETTER TRANSLATION SINNING SIN, OR BEST, IN SIN, INVOLVED IN SIN, IN AN ACT OF SIN. COMPOUND USE OF THE VERB AND NOUN IS IDIOMATIC, USED AS AN EXCLAMATORY TYPE STATEMENT)

WHICH IS NOT UNTO DEATH (PROS THANATON, FACE TO FACE WITH DEATH, LEADING TOWARD DEATH. AGAIN IDIOMATIC OF SIN THAT IS PUNISHABLE BY DEATH EITHER IMMEDIATELY (AS IN THE CASE OF ANANIAS AND SAPHIRA, ACTS 5.1-11), OR IMMINENTLY (AS IN THE CASE OF THE CORINTHIANS IN BLASPHEMING THE LORD'S TABLE, I CO 11.26-34)),

HE SHALL ASK (AITEO, HERE HAVING MANY POSSIBLE MEANINGS = TO ASK, PRAY, CALL OUT FOR, INTERCEDE IN THE BEHALF OF. THOUGH WE CANNOT CONFESS SIN FOR OTHERS (SEE 1 JOHN 1.9) WE CAN PRAY THAT GOD WILL OPEN THE BACKSLIDER'S EYES SO THAT HE MIGHT REPENT, AND WE CAN COUNCIL HIM. THIS IS THE MULTIPLICITY OF MEANINGS INVOLVED HERE, UNDERSTOOD ONLY IF THE PREVIOUS CONTEXT HAS BEEN READ AND UNDERSTOOD),

AND HE SHALL GIVE HIM LIFE FOR THEM THAT SIN NOT UNTO DEATH (HARMARTIA PROS THANATON, SIN FACE TO FACE WITH DEATH).

THERE IS A SIN UNTO DEATH: I DO NOT SAY THAT HE SHALL PRAY FOR IT (EROTAO, TO QUESTION, INQUIRE, MAKE ENTREATY, PRAY. THE ESSENCE IS THIS. IF THE BELIEVER IS IN A SIN NOT IMMEDIATELY OR IMMINENTLY UNTO DEATH, OTHER BELIEVERS CAN INTERCEDE WITH GOD ON THIS BACKSLIDER'S BEHALF AND GOD MAY OPEN HIS EYES. BUT IF THE BELIEVER IS IN A SIN UNTO DEATH (SUCH AS LYING TO GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT) THEN WE ARE TOLD TO NOT PRAY FOR THE REVERSIONIST IN THIS CATEGORY. WHY? BECAUSE HIS HEART HAS BECOME SO HARDENED THAT HE WILL NOT HEAR GOD'S CALLING, AND THERE IS NO NEED TO PRAY BECAUSE THIS IS BUT WASTED BREATH).

ALL UNRIGHTEOUSNESS IS SIN: AND (TRANSITIONAL KAI, HOWEVER)

THERE IS A SIN (HARMARTIA, SIN (NO INDEFINITE ARTICLE AS NO SPECIFIC SIN IS EXPECTED))

NOT UNTO DEATH."

A Literal Translation of The Above Text:

EPHESIANS 4.17-19 "THIS I SAY (LEGO, PRES ACT INDIC, SAY WITH CONTINUING RESULTS, SAY SO THAT IT STANDS FOREVER)

THEREFORE, AND TESTIFY (MARTUROMAI, MAKE A SOLEMN STATEMENT WITH NO HUMOR INVOLVED)

IN THE LORD, THAT YE HENCEFORTH WALK NOT AS OTHER GENTILES WALK, IN (EN + INSTRUMENTAL, BY MEANS OF)

THE VANITY (METAIOTES, EMPTINESS, VACUUM)

OF THEIR MIND (NOUS, MIND, STORAGE FACILITY OF THE SOUL),

[18] HAVING THE UNDERSTANDING (DIANOIA, CONSCIOUS THINKING THROUGH)

DARKENED (SKOTIZO, PERF PASS PART, BLACKED OUT WITH CONTINUING RESULTS. WE CAN REJECT THE WORD UNTIL WE GO INTO A REVERSIONISTIC STATE WHERE GOD CANNOT REACH US),

BEING ALIENATED (APALLATRAIO, PERF PASS PART, ALIENATED FROM THE ULTIMATE SOURCE)

FROM THE LIFE (ZOE, LIFE AS A CONCEPT OR PRINCIPLE OR FUNCTION. FUNCTIONAL LIFE. REFERENCE TO GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT IN THE BELIEVER)

OF GOD THROUGH (DIA + ACCUSATIVE, BECAUSE OF)

THE IGNORANCE (AGNOIA, TOTAL LACK OF KNOWLEDGE (OR FOR BELIEVER, REJECTION OF SCRIPTURE))

THAT IS (PRES ACT PART EIMI, KEEPS ON BEING)

IN THEM, BECAUSE OF THE BLINDNESS (POROSIS, CALLOUSNESS, SCAR TISSUE)

OF THEIR HEART: [19] WHO BEING PAST FEELING (APALGEO, PERF ACT PART, ULTIMATELY HARDENED)

HAVE GIVEN (PAREDOKAN, BETRAYED, GIVEN UP, TURNED TRAITOR TO)

THEMSELVES OVER UNTO LASCIVIOUSNESS (ASELGEIA, SEXUAL PROMISCUITY, SENSUALITY)

TO WORK ALL UNCLEANLINESS WITH GREEDINESS (PLEOMEZIA, INSATIABLE DESIRE, FRANTIC SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS, LUST). "

THEREFORE IN THE LIBERTY (ELEUTHERIA, FREEDOM, LIBERTY)

WHEREWITH CHRIST HATH MADE US FREE (ELEUTHEROO, HAS LIBERATED US, EXEMPTED OR FREED US FROM PREVIOUS MEANS OR LAWS),

AND BE NOT ENTANGLED (ENECHO, HOLD IN OR UPON, ENTANGLED WITH, HAVE A BATTLE WITH. THE IMPLICATIONS, THE OT LAWS WERE A BATTLE FOR THE BELIEVER TO WIN, AND IMPOSSIBLE TO OVERCOME)

AGAIN WITH THE YOKE (ZUGOS, COUPLING OBLIGATION, MANDATORY BONDS THAT CAUSE CERTAIN ACTION, YOKE, BEAM OF BALANCE BETWEEN TWO ANIMALS)

OF BONDAGE (DOULEIA, SLAVERY).

BEHOLD, I PAUL SAY UNTO YOU, THAT IF YE BE CIRCUMCISED (PERITEMNO, TO CUT AROUND, CIRCUMCISE. IMPERATIVE MOOD?, COMMANDED TO BE CIRCUMCISED, BE UNDER A LAW OF CIRCUMCISION),

CHRIST SHALL PROFIT (OPHELEO, USEFUL, TO BENEFIT)

YOU NOTHING (OUDEIS, NO, NOT EVEN ONE BIT).

FOR I TESTIFY (MARTUROMAI, ACT AS A WITNESS, PUT ON RECORD AS A WITNESS, TAKE TO RECORD)

AGAIN TO EVERY MAN THAT IS CIRCUMCISED, THAT HE IS A DEBTOR (OPHEILETES, A DEBTOR, PERSON INDEBTED, DELINQUENT)

TO DO THE WHOLE (HOLOS, COMPLETE, ALL, WHOLE) LAW.

(Please note that the following text is scrambled in the English. The Literal Greek text reads: katergethete apo Christou oitines en nomo dikaiousthe tes charitos ezepesate)

YOU IS BECOME (GINOMAI, AORIST, YOU HAVE BECOME)

OF NO EFFECT (KATARGEO, NULL, VOID, USELESS, POWERLESS, UNPROFITABLE) UNTO (APO, FROM THE ULTIMATE SOURCE OF)

CHRIST, WHOSOEVER OF YOU ARE JUSTIFIED (DIKAIOO, PRES PASS INDIC, ARE BEING VINDICATED, ARE TRYING TO BE JUSTIFIED)

BY THE LAW (EN + INSTRUMENTAL NOMOS, BY MEANS OF THE LAW);

YE ARE FALLEN (AOR ACT INDIC EKPIPTO, YOU RAVE DRIFTED OFF COURSE (NAUTICAL TERM))

FROM GRACE. FOR WE THROUGH THE SPIRIT WAIT FOR (APEKDECHOMAI, EXPECT FULLY, WAIT FOR WITH ABSOLUTE KNOWLEDGE)

THE HOPE (ELPIS, CONFIDENCE)

OF RIGHTEOUSNESS (DIKAIOSUNE, COMPLETE JUSTIFICATION, DECLARATION OF RIGHTEOUSNESS)

BY FAITH (EK + PISTIS, OUT OF FAITH, BY MEANS OF FAITH). "

AS (KATHOS, ADVERB USED AS CONJUNCTION, ACCORDING AS)

THE HOLY GHOST SAITH (LEGO, PRES ACT INDIC, KEEPS ON SAYING),

TODAY IF (EAN + SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD, THIRD CLASS CONDITION-- IF (MAYBE YES, MAYBE NO))

YE WILL HEAR (AKOUO, AOR ACT SUBJ, HEAR AND PERCEIVE INDEFINITELY)

HIS VOICE (PHONE + POSSESSIVE GENITIVE AUTOS, HIS VOICE. A REFERENCE TO BIBLE DOCTRINE, AS DOCTRINE IS CALLED THE WORD OF GOD (HE 4.12) AND THE MIND OF CHRIST (1 CO 2.16)).

HARDEN NOT (SKLERUNO, PRES ACT SUBJ + ME, STOP HARDENING, DO NOT GO ON HARDENING)

YOUR HEARTS, AS IN THE PROVOCATION (EN + PARAPIKROSMOS, A TRANSLATION FROM PSA 95.8, REFERS TO MERIBAH, THE PLACE OF TESTING. LITERALLY = REBELLION, FALLING UNDER TESTING, HERE WE WILL TRANSLATE MERIBAH),

IN THE DAY (KATA + ACCUSATIVE HEMERA, ON THE DAY)

OF TEMPTATION (PEIRASMOS, GENITIVE, TESTING FOR THE PURPOSE OF DETERMINING GOOD OR EVIL. GOD TESTED ISRAEL TO DETERMINE THEIR STRENGTHS, AND THEY FAILED SO MISERABLY THAT THEY PRESUMED TO TEST GOD TO DETERMINE GOOD OR EVIL IN HIM)

IN THE WILDERNESS: WHEN (HOU, ADVERB, WHERE)

YOUR FATHERS TEMPTED (PEIRAZO, AOR ACT INDIC, INGRESSIVE AORIST, BEGAN TO TEST GOD FOR THE PURPOSE OF DETERMINING GOOD OR EVIL IN)

ME, PROVED (EN + INSTRUMENTAL OF MEANS OF DOKIMOS, BY MEANS OF PUTTING ME (GOD) ON TRIAL)

ME, AND SAW (HORAO, AOR ACT INDIC, RAVING SEEN A PANORAMIC VIEW OF (GOD'S WORKS))

MY WORKS FORTY YEARS, WHEREFORE (INFERENTIAL COMPOUND CONJUNCTION DIO, FOR THIS REASON)

I WAS GRIEVED (PROSOCHTHIZO, AOR ACT INDIC, BEING ANGRY DUE TO PROVOCATION, BEING FULLY ANGRY)

WITH THAT GENERATION, AND SAID (LEGO, AOR ACT INDIC, GNOMIC AORIST, ABSOLUTELY SAID),

THEY DO ALWAYS ERR (PLANAO, WANDER, GO ASTRAY, BE DECEIVED OR SEDUCED)

IN THEIR HEART; AND THEY HAVE NOT KNOWN (GNORIZO, AOR ACT INDIC, HAVE NEVER KNOWN, HAVE REPEATEDLY REJECTED THE KNOWLEDGE OF (CULMINATIVE AORIST))

MY WAYS (HODOS, ACCUSATIVE PLURAL, ROADS, COURSES OR ACTION).

SO (COMPARATIVE PARTICLE HOS, ADVERB, IN CONCLUSION)

I SWARE (OMNUMI, AOR ACT INDIC, TO MAKE THE MOST SERIOUS SOLEMN OATH)

IN MY WRATH (EN + LOCATIVE ORGE, IN THE SPHERE OF MY INDIGNATION),

THEY SHALL NOT ENTER (EISERCHOMAI, FUT ACT INDIC, SHALL NOT ENTER INTO SO AS TO TAKE FULL POSSESSION OF (SIGNIFICANT, NOT LAMBANO, TO RECEIVE, BECAUSE THE LAND WAS ALREADY THEIRS. BUT BECAUSE OF REVERSIONISM ISRAEL HAD NO CAPACITY FOR THE LAND, SO EVEN THOUGH IT WAS THEIRS GOD REFUSED THEM USE OF IT)

INTO MY REST (PREPOSITION EIS + ACCUSATIVE SING KATAPAUSIS, INTO A STATE OF COMPLETE SETTLED TRANQUILITY. THIS WAS USED BECAUSE OF THE MULTITUDES OF BLESSING AVAILABLE ONCE ISRAEL ENTERED THE PROMISED BLESSING).

TAKE HEED (BLEPO, PRES ACT IMPERATIVE, LOOK OUT),

BRETHREN (ADELPHOS, MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY OF GOD, BRETHREN OF THE SAME FAMILY),

LEST (MEPOTE (STRONGEST NEGATIVE PURPOSE CLAUSE) + EIMI, IN ORDER THAT THERE NOT BE)

THERE BE IN ANY OF YOU AN EVIL (PONEROS, WORTHLESS)

HEART OF UNBELIEF (APISTIA, ABLATIVE OF MEANS, BY MEANS OF UNBELIEF. FAILURE TO TAKE IN THE WORD OF GOD, OR TO ACT UPON IT'S INSTRUCTIONS, ARE FORMS OF UNBELIEF LEADING TO REVERSIONISM),

IN DEPARTING (PREPOSITION EN + INSTRUMENTAL AOR ACT INDIC PART APHISTEMI, BY MEANS OF REVOLTING (AGAINST GOD))

FROM THE LIVING (ZAO, PRES ACT PART, ALWAYS LIVING (GOD))

GOD. BUT EXHORT (PARAKALEO, PRES ACT IMPERATIVE, KEEP ON ENCOURAGING)

ONE ANOTHER DAILY, WHILE IT IS CALLED TODAY, LEST ANY OF YOU BE HARDENED (SKLERUNO, CONSTATIVE AORIST, BECOME HARDENED)

THROUGH THE DECEITFULNESS OF SIN. "

HEBREWS 12.15-17 "LOOKING DILIGENTLY (EPISKOPEO, PRES ACT PART, HABITUALLY TAKING RESPONSIBILITY (FOR ISOLATION OF SIN), BEING WATCHFUL FOR)

LEST ANY MAN FAIL (HUSTEREO, PRES ACT PART, FALLING SHORT, BEING SUBSTANDARD TO)

OF THE GRACE OF GOD; LEST ANY ROOT OF BITTERNESS SPRINGING UP TROUBLE (ENOCHLEO, TO BE TROUBLED ON THE INSIDE, REF TO SELF INDUCED MISERY. PRES ACT, KEEPS ON TROUBLING YOU ON THE INSIDE)

YOU, AND THEREBY MANY (HOIPOLLOI, MANY OTHERS. REVERSIONISM IS LIKE A DISEASE, AND SHOULD BE AVOIDED (1 COR 5.1-5), FOR IT WILL QUICKLY SPREAD THROUGHOUT THE BODY OF CHRIST AND CONTAMINATE IT)

BE DEFILED (MIAINO, TO BE STAINED, CORRUPTED, POLLUTED BY FILTH OR SEWAGE. IN THE ANCIENT WORLD DUNG WAS THROWN OUT THE WINDOWS IN THE STREET. IF YOU WERE HIT BY THIS DUNG YOU WERE SAID TO BE MIAINO).

LEST THERE BE ANY FORNICATOR, OR PROFANE PERSON, AS ESAU, WHO FOR ONE MORSEL OF MEAT SOLD HIS BIRTHRIGHT. FOR YE KNOW HOW THAT AFTERWARD, WHEN HE WOULD HAVE INHERITED THE BLESSING, HE WAS REJECTED: FOR HE FOUND NO PLACE OF REPENTANCE, THOUGH HE SOUGHT IT CAREFULLY WITH TEARS."

NOTE ON VVS 16-17: ESAU DID NOT LOSE HIS SALVATION, BUT HIS BIRTHRIGHT, OR HIS INHERITANCE. LATER WHEN HE REPENTED EMOTIONALLY, AND SOUGHT TO ASK FORGIVENESS, IT WAS TO NO AVAIL. HIS BIRTHRIGHT HAD ALREADY BEEN GIVEN TO ANOTHER FOR ESAU HAD NO CAPACITY FOR IT. REVERSIONISTIC BELIEVERS REJECT THEIR BIRTHRIGHT, AND BLESSINGS THAT ARE RIGHTFULLY THEIRS ARE GIVEN TO OTHERS BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO CAPACITY FOR IT. SEE EXODUS 17. IN THE SAME WAY ISRAEL (FIRST GENERATION) SOUGHT TO GO INTO THE LAND, BUT WERE ULTIMATELY REJECTED BECAUSE THEY HAD NO CAPACITY FOR IT. AND THIS ALL STEMS FROM A FAILURE TO TAKE IN AND ACT ON THE WORD OF GOD.

SEE ALSO PSALM 38, (REVERSIONISM INTENSIFIES SUFFERING); AND REVELATION 3.19-20 (JESUS CALLS THE REVERSIONISTIC HOME, AWAITING THEIR REPENTANCE)