If you have blasphemed the spirit does it matter if you're sorry?

Question

people say that conviction of this sin leads to repentance, but i wonder if thats just a nice thing to say?

Answer 1

He is so important that the only unforgivable sin in the entire Bible concerns the Holy Spirit. You can do and commit any sin that you can think of, and if you confess and repent of that sin, you will be forgiven, except for one sin, that if you commit will never be forgiven. This unforgivable sin is found in several different places in the Bible.

Answer 2

Blasphemy of the holy spirit is a long process by which a person keeps sinning on purpose/ not on purpose, expresses remorse, asks forgiveness and then repeats the sin or sins. Why is the sin or sins repeated? Not due to imperfection, weakness or inherited sin, but because the person's dominant attitude is that they really want to do the bad thing/have the bad thought.(2 Peter 2:20-22)

I have seen that you are asking about this subject a lot. If you have sinned and you are worried that you have blasphemed the holy spirit, then you should stop worrying. Your being anxious about this matter is something that would not be true of one who has blasphemed the holy spirit. Ask God's forgiveness and sincerely try to not repeat the wrong. If you do, realize that we all are imperfect and we will sin sometimes. If you are trying to break a habit you need to face the fact that you might have an occasional relapse. What matters is that you truly want to stop and that you make every effort to not relapse again.

Answer 3

First of all, if you had a mindset to blaspheme the spirit, then you wouldn't BE sorry.

People say stupid things out of anger and ignorance. While they are not nice, and probably sinful, they are not blasphemy.

Blasphemy is a deliberate, thought out, lie against God, usually made for personal gain (at the expense of other souls). It can only be committed by a true believer of the Gospels, who turns around and tells others the lie to prevent them from hearing the truth.

In the case of the Pharisees of Jesus' time, they knew very well who Jesus was, and that he was the prophesied Messiah, but because they were afraid that they would lose power of the rest of the Jews, they lied and told them that Jesus was of Satan, not of God. That lie was blasphemy, and earned them their rightful place with Satan.

I assume they might be sorry now, but their judgement has already been passed.

Answer 4

Usually you're not going to be sorry. Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit is when you have push away the Holy Spirit to the point to which He will never seek you again. It can not be forgiven because there is no turning back. Once you push Him away for the last He won't return. If you ever felt like a "tugging" at your hearts strings, and thought "Wait... maybe God is real, maybe I've got this all wrong..." That was probably the Holy Spirit but if you pushed Him away time and time again, He'll quit coming back. And you've just committed the "unforgivable sin".

Answer 5

According to Jesus, there is only one unforgiveable sin, and that is blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. You do this by continually resisting the call to be saved and have your sins washed away. Your heart grows so hard that soon you will be saying what the Holy Spirit does is evil. This was the context when Jesus made this statement in Matthew 12. The Pharisees were saying that what Jesus was doing was of Satan.

The rule of thumb is... if you are worried that you have committed the unpardonable sin, and desire to repent--you have NOT committed the unpardonable sin.

Answer 6

Blaspheming the Spirit is the rejection of Jesus Christ as Savior to your dying breath, since the message of the Holy Spirit is Jesus as the only Savior and way to heaven and out of hell.

Believers can't do it, because they're already saved. Rejection of Jesus to the dying breath seals the fate of the unbeliever. There's always time to come to Jesus if you're still alive, as Paul said, today is the day of salvation

Answer 7

It's hard to blaspheme the Holy Ghost. It's not simply a matter of yelling hate to God, and such like.

It's a matter of "trampling on the blood" of the Son of God. Having a conscience "seered with a hot iron", and that takes time. It takes a long process for someone to actually get to the place of doing that, called reprobacy.

Thank God His arm (of mercy) is not short that it cannot reach, and His ear is not too heavy that it cannot hear. :)


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Answer 8

I was told that blasphemy of the spirit was actually knowing that the Spirit of God was real, and then rejecting Him.
I think that's true, you have to know God is real before any blasphemy can take place, continued rejection of what you know in your heart to be real would be blasphemy against the Holy Spirit.

Answer 9

The "unforgettable sin" is not biblical. Relax. Just say you're sorry, and move on.

First of all, the phrase “unpardonable sin” is not found anywhere in the Bible. If we are going to seek to find the truth it is important that we use proper terminology. This false term used by evangelicals is actually called “the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit” and it is used twice in the gospels. (Mt. 12:31, 32; Mk. 3:28, 29) .

Mt. 12:31-32

31. 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.

32. 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. (KJV)

31: Wherefore, I say unto you, All sin and profane speaking, shall be forgiven unto men, but, the speaking profanely of the Spirit, shall not be forgiven;

32: And, whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven him, but, whosoever shall speak against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, either in this age, or the coming. (Rotherham’s Emphasized Version)

The problem in this verse is the way the KJV (and other modern versions) have translated the Greek word “aion.” The KJV translates it as “world,” but the more accurate rendition is given to us by Rotherham. The Bible has a specific word for “world” and that is the Greek word “cosmos.” However, Paul uses the word “aion” which clearly means a “period of time.” It is not referring to a place (world), but a period of time (age). This is significant. In this particular passage, the King James translators are giving us the impression that there are two worlds—one on earth and the next one, which is in heaven. While we do not argue that there are two realms (heaven and earth), is this really what the text is saying? If we believe their translation, it certainly seems that whatever this sin is, it can never be forgiven—either on earth or in heaven. But this couldn’t be further from the truth of Jesus’ words. Jesus is not speaking of heaven and earth, but two consecutive periods of time. Weymouth’s New Testament translates verse 32 this way:

And whoever shall speak against the Son of Man may obtain forgiveness; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, neither in this nor the coming age shall he obtain forgiveness.

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Answer 10

Hmmm ... is that a contradiction or repentance?

The blasphemy constitutes a total rejection of God – the unpardonable sin. If you're sorry, then that sin has been reversed.