the unpardonable sin

[Guest wei]

Hello. I just wanted to clarify my understanding about the unpardonable sin. Is it the sin of rejecting Christ throughout your entire lifetime until you die? Or is it something else? Also, if it is something else, and a person committed this, yet accepted and asked God forgive and save him...is he saved? how can one be sure he has not committed this sin? can this sin be committed presently? thank you

[Guest Bro David™]

Hello. I just wanted to clarify my understanding about the unpardonable sin. Is it the sin of rejecting Christ throughout your entire lifetime until you die? Or is it something else?

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The blasphemy of the Holy Spirit has been argued in a mired of ways.

Without going into the specifics,

I would say that rejecting Christ through the entirety of your life would be a sin and a grave one.

In context however "The Unpardonable sin" that you are asking about is the sin against the Holy Spirit.

Mat 12:31 [KJV]

Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men

To put it simply it means that if you attribute the work of God to the Devil OR the work of the Devil to God you would be provoking the Holy Ghost in Blasphemy.

and a person committed this, yet accepted and asked God forgive and save him...is he saved? how can one be sure he has not committed this sin? can this sin be committed presently? thank you

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John 1:17 [KJV]

For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

Romans 5:20 [KJV]

Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:

Romans 6:14 [KJV]

For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

Ephesians 1:7 [KJV]

In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;

Ephesians 2:5 [KJV]

Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)

With the burden of proof fulfilled by these scriptures we should belive that we are saved by the grace of God.

Indeed when we ask to be forgiven we are to belive that we are indeed forgiven because it was by the Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ we are saved, by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ will we be forgiven.

God Bless You.

In Jesus Christ

David King

[Guest Dan The New Guy]

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[Dad Ernie]

Greetings,

Other things and verses to consider:

Why did Annanias & Sapphira fall dead at Peter's feet?

According to the scriptures, all who take the Mark of the Beast will be cast into the Lake of Fire.

Romans 6:16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

1 John 5:16-17 If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it. 17 All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.

Blessings,

Dad Ernie

[Mark]

Greetings,

Other things and verses to consider:

Why did Annanias & Sapphira fall dead at Peter's feet?

According to the scriptures, all who take the Mark of the Beast will be cast into the Lake of Fire.

Romans 6:16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

1 John 5:16-17 If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it. 17 All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.

Blessings,

Dad Ernie

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I've always wondered what is meant by "blasphemy of the holy spirit"? If somone is a teenager, and curses and curses and swears at god really bad, is this blasphemy? Have they been shut off from God and can not be eventually saved? I was asked this question and didn't know how to respond.

Mark

[Guest Bro David™]

I've always wondered what is meant by "blasphemy of the holy spirit"? If somone is a teenager, and curses and curses and swears at god really bad, is this blasphemy? Have they been shut off from God and can not be eventually saved? I was asked this question and didn't know how to respond.

Mark

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Try reading my response maybe it would help.

[Guest wei]

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[Guest Enchiridion]

Blaspheming against the Holy Spirit, as it is discussed in Matthew 12, Mark 3 and Luke 12 means rejecting the Holy Spirit. When a person rejects the Spirit, he says "no" to the gift the Spirit brings; namely, saving grace through faith. Ephesians 2:8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith....

If a person dies outside of Grace, he is condemned to Hell. If a person rejects the Holy Spirit --thereby rejecting salvation-- but then later repents and receives the Holy Spirit again, he will go to Heaven.

LK 15:7 I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.

When Jesus talks about the sin that will not be forgiven, He is talking about the state a person is in when he dies.

Hope this helps!

Enchiridion

[Keith]

Anyone who has believed that Jesus is the Savior has not and can not blaspheme the Holy Spirit, because that person has accepted the testimony of the Holy Spirit as truth.

Those who don't believe the testimony of the Holy Spirit have blasphemed the Holy Spirit. The Spirit's testimony is not accepted as the truth of God, and Christ Jesus is rejected as a consequence. The conscious rejection of the Person and Work of Jesus Christ as the Savior of humanity is the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit.

If you are a believer in Jesus Christ, then you have received the testimony of the Holy Spirit as truth and you have not committed the unpardonable sin.

[Catsmeow]

Hello. I just wanted to clarify my understanding about the unpardonable sin. Is it the sin of rejecting Christ throughout your entire lifetime until you die? Or is it something else? Also, if it is something else, and a person committed this, yet accepted and asked God forgive and save him...is he saved? how can one be sure he has not committed this sin? can this sin be committed presently? thank you

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You'll get a range of answers to this but one sin that becomes unpardonable is the sin of unforgiveness.

That is to say if you die refusing to forgive your brother some perceived offense, you will not be forgiven, according to the very words of Christ. He tells us to "forgive and you shall be forgiven."

Pretty clear.

He gives a parable of a man who was forgiven a great debt by the King but when he refused to forgive a very "small debt" owed to him, he refused.

It was then that the King summoned the man and retracted his pardon of the man's debt and demanded he be thrown into the dungeon.

This parable drives home the point that we cannot ask God to forgive us if we are unwilling to refuse others.

God is patient and seems willing to give each of us time to overcome our anger and forgive those who wrong us....but eventually, we are called to forgive an offense.