If someone grieves the holy spirit can they still be saved, or not?

Question

I read it the bible about grieving the holy spirit. But if someone does, and they are sorry they did. Does that mean they cant be saved at all?.

Answer 1

I'm sure I grieve the spirit whenever I do or say something that isn't very nice! God's spirit convicts me instantly, and I appreciate that He does. It doesn't cancel out my salvation. You may have this confused with the verse that says the one unforgiveable sin is "blasphemy" of the holy spirit. Very different. This is the utter rejection of God's calling that person to repentance, through Jesus Christ.

Answer 2

Grieving the holy spirit and blasphemy are two very different things.

I don't entirely understand this concept, if a person is repentant, which means they are really sorry and willing to change (not just change to avoid punishment, but willing to change their ways so they stay on the right path after they are forgiven).

But remember that God looks on the inside of the person's heart.
Let's take the Bible and what Jesus shows in the Bible.

The most hated people in his days: Taxpayers and sinners and those who were unclean. Yet Jesus healed and brought salvation to those people (ie, Zaccheus, the Roman Centurion, healing of the man with Leprosy and the thief at the cross just to name a fiew).

But yet, he nailed the Pharisees. Repeatedly.

Why?

Because Christ looked at their hearts and the intentions of their hearts.

It's why he forgave Peter even though Peter denied him 3 times.

It's why he forgave the woman caught in the act of adultery.

It's why he forgave the Samaritan woman...a race most Judeans in that day hated.

Because he understood their hearts.

You see, God wants a relationship with you and with me and anyone who seeks him, and when you commit your life to Christ, you have the Holy Spirit as your counsellor and guide.

But when you sin, you grieve the Holy spirit. Does that mean you are doomed to hell. No way, but it will separate you from God, so you need to make amends to him. Kind of like when you have an argument with a family member, you need to make amends in order to return to a good relationship with him.

So, if you are worried about the fact that you have done the unpardonable sin, that means that God is still convicting you and that's through the Holy Spirit. If that's the case, just take this opporunity to reconcile your relationship with God.

Blessings!

Answer 3

A christian can grieve and quench the Holy Spirit and still be saved. The sin is blasphemy against the Holy Spirit that cannot be forgiven, but defining that is a whole different question.

Answer 4

As I understand it, you grieve the Holy Spirit every time you fall short of the Glory of God--just means you're human, not that you're not saved. At the risk of being repetitive...If you confess that Christ is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved. That's all there is to it.
And though grieving the HS is not good, it is NOT the unforgivable sin. That would be denying the Holy Spirit. Which means, if you have accepted Christ and experienced the communion of the Holy Spirit, and then nonetheless deny the Lord, you have blown it for good.

Answer 5

Grieving the Holy Spirit is something that only a child of God can do. Once you have accepted Christ by faith, you are saved forever. You can never lose your salvation. However, you can grieve the Holy Spirit by sinning. When you sin, you are out of fellowship with God, but you are not separated from God.

Read 1John 1:9. It's been described as the Christian's bar of soap. Restoration of fellowship is just that easy.

Answer 6

faith is the most important area to this walk i trust. without faith the Bible says"it isn't conceivable to delight God''. How can we trust except we hear the know God properly that signifies that faith comes by listening to...it also says that "we are to guard our hearts"... in different words we are to be very careful about what we enable our ears to hearken to, and take care of our different senses that are the gateway to our souls. issues human beings say can and could grieve your spirit, what you observe can grieve your spirit, and so on...you observe i imagine that we are the temple or the abode of the Holy Spirit who's there to sup with our spirit and what's going to grieve our spirit grieves the Holy Spirit because of the affection he has for us.

Answer 7

That's correct. They are lost. If we ignore the Holy Spirit for a long time He will get quiet. A person can repent at any time and be saved. But sometimes they are to stubborn.

Answer 8

ur spirit will groan inside you if you grieve the Spirit...you will know it...get alone with God and correct that. And no, its not the same as openly and brazenly mocking or speaking against the Holy Spirit... that is bad news for the being doing it.

Answer 9

you can be forgiven and be clean from your sins if you have sin against the holy spirit...but only God knows if you have sin against his holy spirit or not...but if you have this guilt feeling that means that you didn't went that far from sinning against the holy spirit of God....be careful with your deeds....and get to me at [e-mail] and tell me why do you think you have grieving the holy spirit.

Answer 10

It's not grieving, specifically the unforgivable sin, is when you condemn the holy spirit. This sin cannot be committed by a true Christian.

"he who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is subject to eternal condemnation"Mark 3:22-30 states.




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"I would like to just know if what it says in Matthew is true. It states that every sin is forgivable, except if a person speaks badly about the Holy Spirit. I have attended a private Christian school and one day my Bible teacher was saying that a person is not forgiven if he/she speaks against the Holy Spirit. As he stated that... I thought something against the Holy Spirit. I did not mean to... it just happened. I prayed and asked forgiveness, but does that mean I am forgiven or eternally condemned? SINCERELY WORRIED"

Clearly, this student is confused about the true meaning of this biblical reference. Once understood, this young person can rest assured that the unpardonable sin was most certainly not committed in this case. In fact, this sin cannot be committed by a true Christian.



An unforgivable sin is described in Mark 3 and Matthew 12. These passages involve Jesus Christ's repeated and widespread public defeat of Satan and his demons. Many readers and theologians have been confused about the true nature of this sin. As you read these verses for yourself (below), bear in mind part of the purpose of Jesus Christ's ministry was to directly confront darkness with the light of truth in a public battle of pure good versus pure evil. The only being in the universe that is more powerful than the Evil One, is God. He is the only one with enough power to bind Satan himself and forcibly dispossess him.

Mark 3:22-30 states,

"And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, 'He has Beelzebub,' and, 'By the ruler of the demons He casts out demons.' ...'Assuredly, I [Jesus] say to you, all sins will be forgiven the sons of men, and whatever blasphemies they may utter; but he who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is subject to eternal condemnation;' because they said, 'He has an unclean spirit'" (NKJV, emphasis added / Note: The Pharisees made the same charge in Mat 9:34.).

In Matthew 12:31-32, Jesus says to the Pharisees,

"Therefore I say to you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven men. Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, either in this age or in the age to come" (NKJV, emphasis added).

God's grace is not limited by man's sinfulness. And I don't think it is possible to literally commit the unforgivable sin.

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