what does the bible mean when it says to grieve not the Holy Spirit?

Answer 1

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"Eventually, a person loses the capacity to repent"

You know how after you do something that hurts life, you regret it? That's the start of true repentance. Doing evil without any remorse and the conscious not telling you otherwise is part of the unpardonable sin. Not wanting to believe that there is something better than living with a miserable attitude. Hypocrisy can come with it, like from the Pharisees.

The Holy Spirit is an influence of goodness that you may invite or cast out with your attitude, but the unpardonable sin is when you never want it back. My belief is that you don't have to know God exists to have the Holy Spirit.

Note: I really should go find biblical support.

There is a 2 part sermon about it if you're interested in it:
http://www.amazingfacts.org/media/everla...

My belief is that if you still have compassion, you couldn't have committed the unpardonable sin. If you worry that you committed it, you haven't. Committing it requires that you have no guilt, remorse, worry, etc when you do something wrong. in fact, you would think it's right to humiliate others if you committed it.

The answer is that God can erase you from existance because eternal life would be miserable for someone who finds hurting life a good thing. Only true Sadists get the quenching fire which will cleanse the Earth so that it becomes the New Earth. Oh wait, you know what I'm saying because you know i'm an Adventist. We belive the soul is the entire being which happens to be physical. It can be immortalized by God so that it can be as a spirit. Spirits can be unimmortalized, such as Satan and his demons. They can masuqerade as dead loved one's and perhaps real aliens, but they twist the truth. If there were aliens, they would tell us of their creator. That's my opinion.

Answer 2

Good question.
The Bible is simply saying here that if you continue to disregard the promptings of the holy spirit and continue to do evil or say that the holy spirit is not the truth and he is the devil like what the pharisees were saying about the spirit in Matthew then you will grieve the holy spirit and he will leave you. Basically probabtion will close for you then because you will not have the holy spirit prompting you to what is wrong or right anymore and you will remain in that state until God comes and you won't even know it.

Answer 3

It means we shouldn't sin, because when we sin the Holy Spirit cannot stay as close to us. The further and further we push the Holy Spirit from us, the harder and harder it gets to discern right from wrong, and truth from error. When the Holy Spirit is completely grieved by us, it is no longer with us, and we are spiritually lost.

Answer 4

The Holy Spirit, God's Spirit, lives within all of God's people. When we do something that we know is wrong, God's Spirit within us is a witness to it. God allows us to make bad choices and decisions, but we cause him grief and sorrow when we do that. He also offers forgiveness freely and we would be wise to take Him up on it. He wants to be close to us, our sin separates us from Him either temporarily or forever. The forgiveness that he offers us through his Son closes the gap and allows us to have the close relationship with Him that He wants to have with us.

Answer 5

It's similar to a parent being grieved because the children are fighting with each other instead of supporting each other as a loving family unit.

John 1:11 He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. 12 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, 13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

Ephesians 1:1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints who are in Ephesus, and are faithful in Christ Jesus:

Paul is writing to the saints and not to people who may or may not be in God's family.

Ephesians 4:30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. 31 Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. 32 Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

Like a spiritual older brother, Paul is telling them that God is grieved when His children don't get along with each other.

Answer 6

You see it all the time on here, disbelieving and mocking the Power, Divinty, and miracles of God, and His word.