Unforgiveable sin?

**Janos** · November-7th-2008, 12:15 PM

Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is the only unforgiveable sin correct? (If I am wrong please correct me) What does that entail? What constitutes blasphemy against the Holy Spirit? This is something I truly don't understand and any help would be appericated :)

**paul&katie** · November-7th-2008, 01:26 PM

Originally Posted by Janos

Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is the only unforgiveable sin correct? (If I am wrong please correct me) What does that entail? What constitutes blasphemy against the Holy Spirit? This is something I truly don't understand and any help would be appericated :)

Can't happen now. They were attributing Jesus’ (God in the flesh) miracles to the devil. This can’t happen today. The only unforgivable sin now is rejecting so grate a salvation offered by Jesus.

In the future take the Mark of the Best is unforgivable but you know exactly what you are doing when you take it. (pleading allegiance to the devil over God)

**bghtnpd4** · November-7th-2008, 02:44 PM

Here's a link that might help:

http://gracethrufaith.com/?s=unforgivable+sin

**mattfivefour** · November-7th-2008, 05:32 PM

Yes, blaspheming the Holy Spirit is the one unforgivable sin. but what is it? Bghtnpd4 has given you good advice ... go there and read. Additionally consider the following:

By Bible scholar, F.F. Bruce, one of the founders of the modern evangelical understanding of the Bible:

"…Speaking against the Son of man might be due to a failure to recognize Him for what He is. So Paul recalls how in his pre-Christian days he thought it his duty to oppose the name of Jesus of Nazareth. But if, having seen the light on the Damascus road, he had deliberately closed his eyes to it and kicked out against the goad which was directing him into the true path, that would have been the sin against the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit persuades and enables men to accept Christ and enjoy the saving benefits of the gospel [John 16:8; 1 Corinthians 2:12-14; Acts 7:51], but if anyone refuses to submit to the Spirit's gracious constraint, preferring to call good evil and evil good, how can the gospel avail for him? The deliberate refusal of the grace of God is the one sin which by its very nature is irremediable" [F.F. Bruce, Answers to Questions (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House, 1973), pp. 46-47.].

By Messianic Jew and Evangelist, Ray Comfort:
"Anyone who rejects the Holy Spirit's convicting influence and does not repent will not be forgiven, 'neither in this world, neither in the world to come' (Matthew 12:32)" [Ray Comfort, "The Unpardonable Sin," The Evidence Bible (Gainesville, Florida: Bridge-Logo Publishers, 2001).].

By professor of biblical studies at Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Dr. Craig Keener:

"Jesus thus regards blasphemy against the Spirit—permanently rejecting his identity (Matthew 12:18) as attested by the Spirit's works (Matthew 12:28)—as the worst of sins”
[Craig S. Keener, The IVP Bible Background Commentary, New Testament (Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press, 1993), p. 80.].

By Christian educator, theologian and writeer Lawrence O. Richards:

"This reference to an unforgivable sin has troubled many unnecessarily. Those who are concerned that they have done something for which Jesus will not forgive them show a very different attitude from the Pharisees, who refused to accept even the most compelling evidence that Jesus was the Son of God. The person who rejects the Spirit's message about Jesus will not be forgiven. Anyone who seeks Jesus' forgiveness certainly has not committed the unforgivable sin" [Larry Richards, 735 Baffling Bible Questions Answered (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Fleming H. Revell, 1993), pp. 241-242.].

I pray these help.