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So, you believe one can irrevocably lose salvation by a stray word? Up against the hundreds of scriptures that give us assurance of salvation?

All jews? Not. Of course not everyone who claims salvation is saved...so what? It doesn't change what I said.

Why do I have to know who is in or out to believe the truth? A believer is simply that, why complicate it?

So, how does a believer blaspheme the spirit?

If your church is a particular denomination, instead of the entire body of true believers, you belong to the wrong church..

You still haven't told me what it is, only what you think it's not.

We all grieve the Spirit at times. That isn't blasphemy. We all resist the Spirit at times, In fact, every willfill sin is resistance, but we certainly don't ask him to leave us forever. We don't tell him he's doing Satan's work. Show me where scriptures say a believer can blaspheme the spirit...

I'm saying you are not looking deeply enough into what Jesus said. Of course he wasn't wrong and of course one can not blaspheme the Holy Spirit without rejecting the Spirit.

Of course all sin is damnable. If it wasn't, Jesus would have only died for certain sins. If a sin is not forgiven, not covered by Christ's blood, then that sin must be punished. The only unforgivable sin is unbelief, that is, rejection of the Spirit.

1What I am saying is that as long as an heir is underage, he is no different from a slave, although he owns the whole estate. 2The heir is subject to guardians and trustees until the time set by his father. 3So also, when we were underage, we were in slavery under the elemental spiritual forces...

I don't look at this from an eternal security or Calvinist view. This blasphemy against the spirit is a final rejection of His leading whether it is committed by a former Christian or someone who was never redeemed, IMO.

Because every true Christian possesses the Holy Spirit. Jesus said you can speak against him and be forgiven, but not if one speaks against the Spirit. Why? In very next verse he says this: "Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is...

What do you think counts as blasphemy? Can a true Christian curse the Spirit in his heart? I don't see how.

"By the early Middle Ages, the legend had grown that when Christ was born in the dead of winter, every tree throughout the world miraculously shook off its ice and snow and produced new shoots of green. At the same time, Christian missionaries preaching to Germanic and Slavic peoples were taking...

When did The Beatles have to do with it? Don't recall any of them claiming to be Christian.

Not sure what you are getting at. If I reject God that's certainly blasphemy.

So... You have no answer? It's a metaphor, genius. A man is not literally a goat or a sheep, so your argument makes no sense.

Well, IMO, if you had truly blasphemed the holy Spirit, you would not be concerned about it. I don't believe it's something you can do accidentally. IMO, it's complete and totally rejection of the Spirit.

1. We can only speculate that God would have picked somebody else... But since he already knew her answer in eternity past, it's kind of a circular question. 2. Yes she had to be a virgin to fulfill the prophecy. Why? IDK, why does God do any miracle? To bring glory to himself, would be my...

So I can not sin after conversion? Yeah, right! Everyone sins after conversion.