Posted on 06/19/2023 1:21:37 AM PDT by spirited irish
Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven people, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. And whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.
So what exactly is blasphemy against the Spirit, what many call the unpardonable sin?
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My understanding is blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is the lack of repentance.
My understanding in Catholicism is it’s the disbelief that God can and/or won’t forgive one’s sins in the sacrament of reconciliation
There is no pardon for a person who dies in his rejection of Christ. The Holy Spirit is at work in the world, convicting the unsaved of sin, righteousness, and judgment (John 16:8). If a person resists that conviction and remains unrepentant, then he is choosing hell over heaven. “Without faith it is impossible to please God” (Hebrews 11:6), and the object of faith is Jesus (Acts 16:31). There is no forgiveness for someone who dies without faith in Christ.
God has provided for our salvation in His Son (John 3:16). Forgiveness is found exclusively in Jesus (John 14:6). To reject the only Savior is to be left with no means of salvation; to reject the only pardon is, obviously, unpardonable.
So if the unrepentant sinner remains in that hardened condition till death, he or she has committed the unpardonable sin since they have rejected the only pardon there is.
It is a form of self inflicted blindness that is fatal, rejecting it, that is.
The blasphemy part also is an act of blocking others from accessing the Holy Spirit through censorship when they could benefit from it. It is like this government blocking children from the wisdom and knowledge of a father and instead glorify their company with the narcissistic mother prostitute and her pimps instead.
It can also be an aloofness that does not hate evil and does not understand how such censorship is not only unjust but disastrous for whomever was affected by it. So if you know you were censored from good but it does not make you upset, you risk perdition.
It happens a lot, in courtrooms, at work, in families, with maids in the medical field etc.
It simply is a denial of a medicine that everyone knows cure, all for political, power, petty profit and narcissistic reasons.
Romans 8:14-17 NIV
[14] For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. [15] The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.” [16] The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children. [17] Now if we are children, then we are heirs —heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory …
Final impenitence.
Bttt
Heaven has a gate
Hell is wide open
From Mark 3. Read all of chapter 3 for context.
A House Divided Cannot Stand
20 Then the multitude came together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread. 21 But when His own people heard about this, they went out to lay hold of Him, for they said, “He is out of His mind.”
22 And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, “He has Beelzebub,” and, “By the ruler of the demons He casts out demons.”
23 So He called them to Himself and said to them in parables: “How can Satan cast out Satan? 24 If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. 25 And if a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand. 26 And if Satan has risen up against himself, and is divided, he cannot stand, but has an end. 27 No one can enter a strong man’s house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man. And then he will plunder his house.
The Unpardonable Sin
28 “Assuredly, I say to you, all sins will be forgiven the sons of men, and whatever blasphemies they may utter; 29 but he who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is subject to eternal condemnation”— 30 because they said, “He has an unclean spirit.”
Great article.
https://www.gotquestions.org/unpardonable-sin.html
Excellent video explanation at that link as well, plus scriptural references.
QUESTION
What is the unpardonable sin / unforgivable sin?
ANSWER
The unpardonable/unforgivable sin or “blasphemy of the Holy Spirit” is mentioned in Mark 3:22–30 and Matthew 12:22–32. Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, people can be forgiven all their sins and every slander they utter” (Mark 3:28), but then He gives one exception: “Whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; they are guilty of an eternal sin” (verse 29).
According to Jesus, the unpardonable or unforgivable sin is unique. It is the one iniquity that will never be forgiven (“never” is the meaning of “either in this age or in the age to come” in Matthew 12:32). The unforgivable sin is blasphemy (“defiant irreverence”) of the Holy Spirit in the context of the Spirit’s work in the world through Christ. In other words, the particular case of blasphemy seen in Matthew 12 and Mark 3 is unique. The guilty party, a group of Pharisees, had witnessed irrefutable evidence that Jesus was working miracles in the power of the Holy Spirit, yet they claimed that He was possessed by the prince of demons, Beelzebul (Matthew 12:24; Mark 3:30).
The Jewish leaders of Jesus’ day committed the unpardonable sin by accusing Jesus Christ (in person, on earth) of being demon-possessed. They had no excuse for such an action. They were not speaking out of ignorance or misunderstanding. The Pharisees knew that Jesus was the Messiah sent by God to save Israel. They knew the prophecies were being fulfilled. They saw Jesus’ wonderful works, and they heard His clear presentation of truth. Yet they deliberately chose to deny the truth and slander the Holy Spirit. Standing before the Light of the World, bathed in His glory, they defiantly closed their eyes and became willfully blind. Jesus pronounced that sin to be unforgivable.
The blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, specific as it was to the Pharisees’ situation, cannot be duplicated today. Jesus Christ is not on earth, and no one can personally see Jesus perform a miracle and then attribute that power to Satan instead of the Spirit. The only unpardonable sin today is that of continued unbelief. There is no pardon for a person who dies in his rejection of Christ. The Holy Spirit is at work in the world, convicting the unsaved of sin, righteousness, and judgment (John 16:8). If a person resists that conviction and remains unrepentant, then he is choosing hell over heaven. “Without faith it is impossible to please God” (Hebrews 11:6), and the object of faith is Jesus (Acts 16:31). There is no forgiveness for someone who dies without faith in Christ.
God has provided for our salvation in His Son (John 3:16). Forgiveness is found exclusively in Jesus (John 14:6). To reject the only Savior is to be left with no means of salvation; to reject the only pardon is, obviously, unpardonable.
Many people fear they have committed some sin that God cannot or will not forgive, and they feel there is no hope for them, no matter what they do. Satan would like nothing more than to keep people laboring under that misconception. God gives encouragement to the sinner who is convicted of his sin: “Come near to God and he will come near to you” (James 4:8). “Where sin increased, grace increased all the more” (Romans 5:20). And the testimony of Paul is proof positive that God can and will save anyone who comes to Him in faith (1 Timothy 1:12–17). If you are suffering under a load of guilt today, rest assured that you have not committed the unpardonable sin. God is waiting with open arms. Jesus’ promise is that “he is able to save completely those who come to God through him” (Hebrews 7:25). Our Lord will never fail. “Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. The LORD, the LORD himself, is my strength and my defense; he has become my salvation” (Isaiah 12:2).
That, and posting clickbait to your own blog.
And today they say He is the christ consciousness, or as the fallen power calling itself Hathor teaches its followers: You O Man are Christ.
In these ways and others, modern men and women blaspheme and remain dead in their sins, hence unrepentant by default.
If one repents of the unpardonable sin, does it get pardoned?
“It is not simply that they did not know the truth, but that they knew it and hated it.”
(The unpardonable sin)
Can you accept Christ, then later commit the unpardonable and throw away your gift of salvation?
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“The Spirt had enlightened them to the truth of Christ, and yet they closed themselves up in darkness.”
Under that, it’s not possible to be pardoned, going beyond the point of no return. By its essence it’s unpardonable.
“It is not simply that they did not know the truth, but that they knew it and hated it. To blaspheme the Spirit is to reject the very grace that has been shown to you in Christ. And without Christ, there can be no forgiveness.”
Those who will choose to take the mark of the beast will find out.
Simply put, the unpardonable sin is the rejection of God’s grace....The unpardonable sin isn’t even an ignorant hostility against the Church or a disdain for Christianity..... the Pharisees despised the grace that had been revealed to them, and aggressively tried to destroy it....those who rebel against the Holy Spirit’s revealing, who have been shown the loving kindness of the Father through the death of his Son on their behalf and yet call evil what is good, poison what is medicine, and of hell what is of heaven, they will never be forgiven.
Indeed but more fully:
And the scribes which came down from Jerusalem said, He hath Beelzebub, and by the prince of the devils casteth he out devils And he called them unto him, and said unto them in parables, How can Satan cast out Satan?…
Verily I say unto you, All sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and blasphemies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme: But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation: Because they said, He hath an unclean spirit. (Mark 3:22,28-30)
Matthew adds more from the original:
And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come. Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit. (Matthew 12:32-33)
Thus we see that in both cases that contextually the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit referred to was that of attributing to the devil what was manifestly the work of God, in this case that of casting out devils, but which impenitence was a result of hard-hearted refusal to yield to what the evidence so plainly showed.
Since the Scribes and the Pharisees were overall corrupt, and the Lord Jesus reproved them and represented a threat to their power, then they had to do something about the manifestation of His love and power which made it obvious that He was from God, and thus that they should submit to His authority. Faced with conviction by the Holy Spirit, in order to avoid this they attributed Christ miracles to the exact opposite of their source, the devil.
Thus the attribution of operating by the power of the devil was resorted to in order to justify the hard-hearted impenitent rejection of Christ as being from God, in which charitable supernatural miracles were part of His credentials, as was the rest of His Scriptural substantiation in word and in power.
Meaning that their blasphemy against the Holy Spirit was attributing the manifest credentials of the Lord Jesus to the devil in order to justify their rejection of Him, as a the result of a persistent stubborn hard heart that refused to repent despite reproof and evidential warrant. This persistent impenitence was one which such souls cannot repent of (versus a sin one struggles with), being is driven by evil desire and one which such souls do not even seek forgiveness from God for.
Which left such reprobate, unable to repent and be forgiven, which will also be the case with such unbelievers during the 1,000 year reign of the Lord Jesus on earth.
Thus this blasphemy against the Holy Spirit flowed from a hard-hearted impenitent condition of heart, and was that of attribution of what was clearly manifest as being from God to being that of the devil in order to justify their rejection of the Lord Christ, despite His manifest credentials .
And then there is Judas who, despite being with Christ and seeing clearly that He was of God, will-fully acted as an enemy. Such can have regret of conscience after sinning against the light yet not seek forgiveness from God and yield further to the devil.
Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that. And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself. (Matthew 27:3-5)
For Godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. (2 Corinthians 7:10)
What can be close to or in some cases even blasphemy against the Holy Spirit are anti-theists who due to their impudent stance, reject a Creator even as a hypothesis while having faith that matter and the universe came to be without a intelligent designer. And who charge the God of the Bible with iniquity due to Him judging the earth and people groups (the Flood and Canaanites) and or impotence due to evil in the world today. Which bombastic charges presumes omnipotence by those who make these charges, since they would have to know the condition of those so judged on the earth (as if innocent), and for eternity (as if the innocent were not delivered from the fate of the wicked by being taken to Heaven), and as if God will not or cannot do as promised, which is make all things, including the suffering of the innocent, work out for the good of those who love Good, and thus love God.
However, we may not know if one has the condition of heart that renders them reprobate.
Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is thus not that of honest doubt due to lack of known substantial evidential warrant, or even a type of protesting grievance against God for what we (in our ignorance) perceive as unjust (and Job certainly struggled with reconciling his experience with his faulty theology), nor unwanted thoughts or even repeating such as if coerced.
Such can be sin, but it is not that of persistently hardening oneself against the conviction of the Spirit in the light of evidential testimony to Christ and His Spirit, and attributing that to the demonic in order to justify this rejection.
For believers, there is the sin unto death, (1 John 5:16, 17) of willfully impenitently - despite chastisement - departing from the faith once held, making Christ of no effect, to no profit, drawing back to perdition, thus forfeiting what faith appropriated, which is what believers, as believers, are warned against. (Gal. 5:1-5; Heb. 3:12; 10:25-39)
This is likely the the "great transgression," (Psalms 9:13) David warned of, that of having "wickedly departed from my God"(2 Samuel 22:22) which he said he did not commit. Praise God.
Thus God works to chastens wayward members to repentance, unto "Godly sorrow" which "worketh repentance unto salvation" (2 Corinthians 7:10) lest they be condemned with the world, (1 Corinthians 11:32) Thank be to God.
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