Behold
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What in the context changes what Jesus said about blasphemy against the Spirit being without forgiveness?
Tong
R1943
The context is that to commit blasphemy AGAINST the Holy Spirit, you had to be talking to Jesus, accusing Him to His face, of doing His miracles, by the "power of Satan".
So, to commit that sin, you need to get in your time machine, go back in time 2000 yrs, and tell Jesus that when He walked on water He did that by the power of the Devil.
The good news is....>you can't....so, that is why you can't commit that sin in 2021.
Now if want to blaspheme the holy Spirit, there are a few ways to do it.
Here is one. John 3:36.
Another is to try to prevent someone from getting born again.
Another is to , in Public, from a pulpit or on a forum, or anywhere that is public, including talking to your neighbor, .... what you do is you replace the Grace of God with any type of gospel that is related to self effort.
For example, you teach that water baptism saves you, or that water has the power to save.
Or you teach that you have to keep commandments or the Torah to be saved, or stay saved.
In other words, any teaching that does not give all Credit to Christ for saving you and keeping you saved, blasphemes the Holy Spirit.
This blasphemy is very specific.....Paul defines it in Galatians 1:8. Its the teaching of "another Gospel", and you are CURSED if you do it, and you remain so, until you stop or die.