Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit is to not recognize God. More accurately, it is to believe that the Lord has rejected his creation, and this is why it is "the one unforgivable sin". How can the Lord heal what to the cursed does not believe for him to exist? God is Love. John warns us that to not love will causes eternal separation from God (hell).
It is a common misinterpretation that blasphemy of the Holy Spirit is the accusation that God uses the devil to heal people, according to this verse when Jesus healed a man who could not see or speak, "It is only by Beelzebul, the prince of demons, that this fellow drives out demons." (Matthew 12.24) I find this to be an intellectually dishonest teaching of the verse, because Jesus tells us that "Every kind of sin and slander can be forgiven, but blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come." (Matthew 12.31-2). It was the Son of Man who was performing the miracle.
Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit is deliberately refusing to accept God's mercy, and to believe that we cannot be forgiven. So ironically, it is in believing that we are not saved, in which we are not saved.
Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit is deliberately refusing to accept God's mercy, and to believe that we cannot be forgiven. So ironically, it is in believing that we are not saved, in which we are not saved.
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