how do you blaspheme, or lie to, an "active force" if it is not personal?

Answer 1

Call the Star Trek Enterprise

Answer 2

At Matthew 11:19 Jesus personified “wisdom” and depicted it as having “works” or “children.” Yet “wisdom” is not a person with an individual existence. Also, Romans 5:14, 21 personalizes “death” and “sin” as reigning kings. But they are not living personages. Evidently Jesus did the same in regard to the spirit; he personalized something that was actually not a person.

Both the Hebrew and Greek words for “spirit” are the same words that are translated “wind.” Like the wind, the holy spirit cannot be seen; still it is an active force that can produce effects. Its being referred to as the “Spirit of God” or the “Spirit of the LORD” is evidence that it is an instrumentality that belongs to God. Gen. 1:2

The New Catholic Encyclopedia: "The O[ld] T[estament] clearly does not envisage God's spirit as a person . . . God's spirit is simply God's power. If it is sometimes represented as being distinct from God, it is because the breath of Yahweh acts exteriorly." It also says: "The majority of N[ew] T[estament] texts reveal God's spirit as something, not someone; this is especially seen in the parallelism between the spirit and the power of God."

A Catholic Dictionary: "On the whole, the New Testament, like the Old, speaks of the spirit as a divine energy or power."

Hence, neither the Jews nor the early Christians viewed the holy spirit as part of a Trinity. That teaching came centuries later. As A Catholic Dictionary notes: "The third Person was asserted at a Council of Alexandria in 362 . . . and finally by the Council of Constantinople of 381"—some three and a half centuries after holy spirit filled the disciples at Pentecost!

No, the holy spirit is not a person and it is not part of a Trinity. The holy spirit is God's active force that he uses to accomplish his will. It is not equal to God but is always at his disposition and subordinate to him.

Answer 3

An example of a blaspheme is denying the existence of the Holy Spirit.

Answer 4

Apparently, by denying the action of the holy spirit or by attributing to the holy spirit something plainly contrary to its nature.

Ironically, the concept of 'blasphemy against the spirit' quite convincingly PROVES that the holy spirit CANNOT itself be a deity (or divine personage). Blasphemy nearly always implies insult against a deity, so Jesus had to carefully describe the special form of blasphemy that actually DOES bear particular reprehension.

(Mark 3:28-29) Truly I say to you that all things will be forgiven the sons of men, no matter what sins and blasphemies they blasphemously commit. However, whoever blasphemes against the holy spirit has no forgiveness forever, but is guilty of everlasting sin.

The bible describes many accounts of humans who did insult Jehovah but who nevertheless seem to have been forgiven. For example, the apostle Paul himself plainly admits to committing blasphemy, yet his forgiveness was possible because he never denied the action of the holy spirit, or ascribed wrongdoing to the holy spirit.

(1 Timothy 1:13) Formerly I was a blasphemer and a persecutor and an insolent man. Nevertheless, I was shown mercy

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Answer 5

It is simple. One receives holy spirit. It is active on oneself and you know it is truth. Then you refuse what is one you. This is described in Hebrews 6:4-6, 10:29.

One is filled with energy as an appliance is filled with electricity from a power source. Then choses to cut off. You cannot be "filled" with a person. Hence, there is no blasphemy against Jesus or Jehovah as unpardonable sin.

A person can have heard of them and refuse them, but once filled with holy spirit you know these things and are a partaker, then refusing.

Debbie

Answer 6

Consider Jesus's words @ Matt. 12:31,32

“On this account I say to you, Every sort of sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the spirit will not be forgiven.
32.) For example, whoever 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, no, not in this system of things nor in that to come.
Speaking any word against the holy spirit is an eternal, unforgivable sin because it is Gods active force and emanates from Jehovah God himself.

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Answer 7

One Catholic Church teaching that had long been shrouded in controversy was the Trinity—the belief that God is made up of three persons. In fact, historian Earl Morse Wilbur explains that it “was the subject of much debate in the Middle Ages among Catholic theologians, including even Popes themselves.” However, such debate rarely filtered down to the common man, who was expected to accept such doctrines on faith as “divine mysteries.”

Yet, some in the 16th century chose to go against tradition and examine the Scriptures in an attempt to clarify such mysteries. Their motto was sola Scriptura (Scripture alone). Those who rejected the Trinity doctrine—some of whom were later called Unitarians, as opposed to Trinitarians—often became the object of intense persecution by Catholics and Protestants alike. They printed their widely read works under pseudonyms and hid themselves away to avoid persecution. Anti-Trinitarians were also at the forefront in the fight for tolerance. Some, such as the Spanish theologian Michael Servetus, even paid for their convictions with their lives.

Answer 8

If you are talking about the Holy Spirit, it is not an active force.
Jesus refers to the Holy Spirit many times in the Gospel of John. He ( the Holy Spirit) is also called the Spirit of truth in this passage. John 15

Answer 9

It's deeply personal

Answer 10

belongs to God, as your fingers belongs to you but aren't you.

Jesus compared the holy spirit with the fingers of God.