Explanation to sin against the Holy Spirit unto damnation

[Aaron37]

Everyone

People bring up Peter denying Jesus 3 times and other examples of their version to blaspheme the Holy Spirit that Jesus said had no forgiveness in any age to prove that there is forgiveness. To end all of this…Here is the correct explanation to blaspheme the Holy Spirit which carries a gulity verdict of commiting an eternal sin unto eternal damnation:

The danger was that rejection of Jesus was an indication not of misunderstanding or ignorance, but of willful, malevolent opposition to the Spirit of God. Such willful opposition could lead to irreversible hardening of the heart.

The sin against the Holy Spirit is a consistent and continual denial of the truth, hardening one’s heart against God and His revelation of Himself in Christ. No one has committed the sin against the Holy Spirit if he or she is concerned about having committed it. A person who sins against the Holy Spirit has no love for God or any desire to be reconciled to Him. (To blaspheme the Holy Spirit is not speaking of an isolated act, but a settled condition of the soul).

If you are concerned about the wrong you have done, you are eligible for forgiveness. Just like Peter, David, and Paul (who were likely greater sinners than you). rbc.org/questionsDetail.aspx?id=58912 (I do not endorse all doctrines of this website)

Are we clear guys?

[stellar_renegade]

Yes, I agree, except for one detail: the myth that a person’s heart can be irreversibly hardened. Since you waffled on this point before and weren’t able to make a clear case for it, I’m gonna have to make a strong declaration about it. You have not given any biblical evidence for such a state because there is none.

[stellar_renegade]

Also, as a natural result, I must add that a person who has committed the BTHS can be able to worry that they have, since someone who has can have their heart softened. But therein lies their hope.

I believe that I have committed it (willingly doing what my conscience tells me is wrong), just as we all have to a degree, since it’s the very nature of sin. In fact I realize that I even do it still sometimes. Does God forgive the act? I sure hope not, for my own sake. I pray that he utterly annihilates the nature in me that did it. But do I as the child he created have forgiveness and redemption? Most certainly yes, because I have been subjected to dark human nature and thus do not truly understand what I do, just as Paul declared in his gospel. We all have eternal hope and forgiveness in His name, amen and amen!

[Aaron37]

Yes, I agree, except for one detail: the myth that a person’s heart can be irreversibly hardened. Since you waffled on this point before and weren’t able to make a clear case for it, I’m gonna have to make a strong declaration about it. You have not given any biblical evidence for such a state because there is none.

Luke 16:19-31 The richman has no desire to repent yet being tormented in the flames of hell.

Romans 1:18-32 these people are hardened to the point of reprobation. Verse 21& Verse 28 & Verse 32 are very clear.

Rev 16:8-11 these people have no desire to repent yet being scorched by fire. Why? because their hearts are so hardened towards God all they can think of is to blasphme His name!

Hebrews 3:12-14; 6:4-6; 10:26-29; 2 Peter 2:20-22; 1 John 5:16… sufficient biblical evidence.

[Aaron37]

Also, as a natural result, I must add that a person who has committed the BTHS can be able to worry that they have, since someone who has can have their heart softened. But therein lies their hope.

I believe that I have committed it (willingly doing what my conscience tells me is wrong), just as we all have to a degree, since it’s the very nature of sin. In fact I realize that I even do it still sometimes. Does God forgive the act? I sure hope not, for my own sake. I pray that he utterly annihilates the nature in me that did it. But do I as the child he created have forgiveness and redemption? Most certainly yes, because I have been subjected to dark human nature and thus do not truly understand what I do, just as Paul declared in his gospel. We all have eternal hope and forgiveness in His name, amen and amen!

No, you have not committed it. I pray for God to give you more understanding of this sin. To blaspheme the Holy Spirit is not speaking of an isolated act, but a settled condition of the soul.

[stellar_renegade]

If it’s a settled condition of the soul, then why does Jesus talk about it as if it’s an act? I actually don’t deny that it’s a part of one’s entity as every sin must be (it is what comes out of a man that makes him unclean) but I sharply disagree that it’s a settled or irreversible condition of the soul. In fact to be settled means to be undisturbed, which is completely unlike sin and implies that there’s nothing essentially disturbing about it. This might seem like semantics but it’s actually an important point. If sin truly is as essentially disturbing as the NT makes it out to be, then no sinner can ever be finally and decisively settled into it.

I may not have committed the sin against the Holy Ghost to the extreme that the Pharisees did, but I too have done wrong when I knew it wasn’t right. I too have declared Christ as not worth following by my actions, which is nuch more significant than what I have said with my words. I too have declared in my heart that the Lord is a maniac or worse, of Satan and a blasphemer, when I have exalted myself and my fears and self-love above Him whose very name is Grace to speak. When I have in my heart religiously declared that His love is not all-consuming or precious enough to burn all the impurities out of everyone unto burning passion for His love. But I have since repented of this and will deny His love to men no longer.

I hope you will too, Aaron. I surely hope you will too.

I’ll look at those scripture refs later when I have more of an opportunity. I seriously doubt though that you’ve found in any of them an air-tight case against anyone being able to eventually repent, since I know I’ve read them myself and recall no such thing.