Is blasphemy of the holy spirit the unforgivable sin?

Answer 1

Not compared with ... oh, say, torturing, raping and murdering a child.



EDIT:
To everyone who answered "yes": you want us to believe that your God is the all-powerful creator of the universe, the beginning and end of all things ... and yet can't take a little abuse. Interesting.

To the two people who gave me the down-thumb: does that imply that you think torturing, raping and murdering a child is NOT as bad as being rude about God? Really? If you're not saying that, why the down-thumb?
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Answer 2

First of all, calling Jesus the name of the enemy was not the meaning of Jesus answer to the Pharisees. You have to look at the whole context of the subject that was being talked about. You first have to know that the Jews of that time believed that all illness was done by Satan because of sins the person did. The Bible states that Jesus healed people by the power of the Holy Spirit. The situation that was going on when Jesus said this was that He had just healed someone. The people said, surely this man is from God. The Pharisees, wanting to discredit Jesus, said no, he heals by the power of Beelzebub, one of the names of Satan. Jesus then gave several parables to indicate that it was the Holy Spirit that does all healing. He said that that was blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, to say that what was done by the Holy Spirit) in this case healing, that it was done by Satan. We are all in danger of doing something like that and must be careful. To be clear, Jesus said that the sin against the Holy Spirit would not be forgiven. He did not say that if we committed that sin we would go to Hell. I hope this helps. There is so much misinformation about this that it is only the Bible that can be trusted.

Answer 3

It is somewhat unfortunate that the terms "irremissible" and "unforgivable " are applied to this sin in popular writings; for these terms need explanation and distinctions which are not always made. On exegetical grounds, this blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is more appropriately called "the unforgiven sin," and may be considered as constituting a special species of sin. If thus understood, the difficulty found by many in the second part of our question is easily solved in the words of St. Bede: "We do not deny that even he, if he be willing to do penance, can be forgiven by Him who wills that all men be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth. But, believing the judge and Grantor of pardon, who said that He would always accept repentance and also said that this blasphemy would not be forgiven, we believe that this blasphemer, because of his wickedness, as he never obtains remission so neither does he bring forth worthy fruits of penance

Answer 4

There is no sin that Jesus doesn't cover. I asked my pastor for the answer to this question, and this is the reply that he gave me: The people who were committing Blasphemy against the Holy spirit, were in the Presence of Jesus...face to face....Knowing full well, that he was the Messiah (God in fleshly form) and called him Satan, to his face.

We can not do this, because Christ is not in fleshly form today...we can though, Grieve the Holy Spirit. But we can also gain forgiveness.

Answer 5

Yes, blasphemy of the Holy Spirit, or unbelief, is the one sin that cannot be forgiven. If you think about it, it's kind of obvious why. If you don't believe, you won't ask for forgiveness. Therefore, you can't be forgiven.

Answer 6

According to the good Book, it is. But it also underlines that many people cannot achieve this sin without true and accurate knowledge of God's will etc. For you to sin against the Holy Spirit, you'd have to know all this and purposefully, spitefully go against it.

Answer 7

Matthew 12:31
" Therefore I say to you, any sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven people, but blasphemy against the Spirit shall not be forgiven."

Answer 8

In my book it is not an unforgivable sin, it is just an act of resistance. It is good to question authority. Blind faith is not healthy.

Answer 9

Blasphemy is attributing the works of the holy spirit to that of Beelzebub.

Or simply being a believer and attributed things you know to be of God to that of another god or something like that.

For example, I pray to Yahweh for something and he answers it and I go around saying that Odin answered my prayer.

That shows a general lack of belief in my proclaimed deity.

That's my best guess.

Answer 10

Yes, but I believe it is a sin that most people cannot commit. It requires one to have a sure knowledge of the truth and then willfully rebel against that truth. I don't mean that someone has a good feeling about Jesus or about their church - I mean someone has talked face to face with God or something equivalent, then decided to rebel and fight against God. Accordingly, it's a sin that most people can't commit even if they wanted to because they simply haven't had that experience.

A couple of Biblical figures who may have committed this sin (I dunno - just guessing), are Cain and Judas. These people spoke face to face with God/Jesus and knew who He was, and knew what the truth was, and still they rebelled.

Answer 11

Yes and YES!
I am so sorrowful towards those people right here, that have said what they have said against The Holy Spirit. The chasm between them and Heaven is unsurmountable. What a pity.