Doctrine and Covenants 58:15
This is interesting to me because I don't think I really thought about unbelief and blindness (even of heart) as sins, but more as things that are just kind of default in our lives, as the nature of part of ourselves in the mortal condition... but in really considering it, I think I see the issue here, and that ignorance of the truth might not start out as a sin, but if we don't take our uncertainties and work through them with God, or try praying and find out for ourselves if God exists, if that is what stage we are at... or whatever questions we have about the gospel, if we don't actually ask them or do the work to learn about them, then unbelief, etc. can become a sin, because God is giving us the path to truth and we are either intentionally avoiding it or deluding ourselves that we haven't already seen the truth and need to follow it.
As with other things, I don't think God is sending a flash of lightning from the sky to condemn us instantly... he's just encouraging us to think about it... telling us to take heed lest we fall, and that if we're not out there learning about God then we're kind of like the guy with one talent. We're not willing to do anything with what God has given us... not willing to change and grow and learn, and make as much as we can with what we have.
Today, let's work with God to overcome our unbelief and blindness of heart, and find the answers to our questions... lest we fall.
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