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To: yardboyd
I had an interesting discussion with my parish priest a few years back regarding the unforgivable sin of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, and just what that might consist of. He opined that the belief that God (in the person of the Holy Spirit) was unable to forgive any sin, was in and of itself, unforgivable, i.e. if a person did something they felt was beyond God's redeeming power, it was not the sin itself, but the lack of faith in the redemptive power of God, that was the blasphemy.

So it would seem, as the headline suggests, Francis is indulging in blasphemy against the Spirit.

41 posted on 04/22/2020 5:49:18 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: Joe 6-pack

You look at what Christ said about it in the context of what had happened. Christ had just been accused of doing miracles by the power of Satan, not by the power of the Holy Spirit. He said,”even if you don’t believe in me, I would rather that you at least believed that the miracles were of God...every sort of blasphemy can be forgiven but blasphemy against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.”

Apparently calling special moves of God as being sourced in evil is a huge wounding thing to God. It is better to hold back judgment if a miracle seems questionable until we see the ultimate fruit of it. A man who does a miracle but denies that Christ is come in the flesh is a man whose miracles’ source powers can be questioned as such a person is operating under an Antichrist impulse. Christ was even willing to deny himself as long as the work of the Father and the Spirit went forward. That is why he put his accusers on a very firm line of caution; I hope for their sakes their accusations were seen by God as just ignorant brain flatulence and that those that needed to, heard Christ’s warning and repented.


46 posted on 04/22/2020 6:19:59 AM PDT by mdmathis6
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To: Joe 6-pack

At the very least the Pope seems to be encouraging the worship of nature in direct violation of the first and second commandments. He is also stating that nature has a personality whose powers of hatred and nonforgiveness is greater than He who stood at the boat’s bow and commanded that same stormy nature to....”Cease...Be Still!”.

This Pope is like the Joe Biden pope of the Catholic Church...he seems to be in dementia and needs to be retired and cloistered.


50 posted on 04/22/2020 6:38:16 AM PDT by mdmathis6
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