What Is the Unpardonable Sin? - Article

[Angelina]

What Is the Unpardonable Sin?
By: Clay Jones
New Testament professor D. A. Carson is right to say that the Pharisees’ blasphemy of the Holy Spirit is the rejection of the “truth in full awareness that that is exactly what one is doing—thoughtfully, willfully, and self-consciously rejecting the work of the Spirit even though there can be no other explanation of Jesus’ exorcisms than that. For such a sin there is no forgiveness.
Then, in verses 33–34, Jesus further illumines the Pharisees’ hardened condition. Jesus tells them that a “tree is known by its fruit” and that they are a “brood of vipers” who are “evil” and who speak out of the “abundance of the heart.” In other words, the Pharisees’ blasphemy wasn’t a hastily uttered slip of the tongue or simply a mistaken apprehension of reality. Rather, it was a knowing, deliberate, and final rejection for which they will give an account of themselves on the Day of Judgment.
http://www.equip.org/articles/what-is-the-unpardonable-sin/

This is a great read... :)

 

[Arnie Manitoba]

Simple

Jesus drove out demons by The Spirit of God

You had to be with Jesus as he was performing miracles and state that he was using the power of Beelzebul to do the miracles. That is the blasphemy Jesus was referring to

Jesus said that it was unforgivable blasphemy to credit Beelzebul with the power behind His Miracles.

It is not any more complicated than that



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[Angelina]

True...I hope that people read this because I have encountered a few believers who think that may have crossed the line but they have not. The unpardonable sin has to be a conscious thing and not something someone makes by mistake... :)

Bless ya!

 

[Eric E Stahl]

Also



John 3:16-18
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
17For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
18He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

 

[Angelina]

well said Eric! :)

 

[Rocky Wiley]

To look a little farther, the unpardonable sin can only be committed by one who has been born again. The reason is that at the time we are born again we receive the 'gift' of the Holy Ghost, that being eternal life. If we willfully sin and deny this gift and the Holy Ghost, the bible says there is not another sacrifice that can be offered that we might receive that gift again.

 

[Angelina]

This is also true about needing to have the Holy Spirit present in our lives and /or the life of another believer to be eligible to reject him in anyway. Also consider...did the Pharisees have the Holy Spirit at the time??? I do not think so because they were arguing with Jesus about his power and authority. The Holy Spirit had not "officially" come at that time ....

Shalom!!