Angry at God

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“Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit” isn’t blasphemy in the traditionally-understood sense. Remember, people have blasphemed the Father and been forgiven, etc. The Holy Spirit is no holier than the Father. Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are ONE GOD, and people have blasphemed God with their words and been forgiven, and when they blasphemed God with their words, all three persons were spoken against. We have to take the scriptures in their context, as the Church teaches.

The sin that Jesus called “blasphemy against the Holy Spirit” is a sin first of the heart, of a heart that is hardened beyond the possibility of repentance in the face of the manifest works of the Holy Spirit over and over again. The Pharisees had repeatedly accused Jesus of being a demoniac. They said it in Matthew 9, and then later in Matthew chapter 12, which prompted Jesus to warn them about unforgivable sin. These men had hearts as hard as stone. What they said about Jesus being demonized wasn’t a one-time emotional outburst due to confusion, hurt feelings, or anything like that. They were self-righteous, hateful, prideful men. They had just seen Jesus heal a man with a withered hand by simply asking the man to stretch out his hand and it was healed. But because it was done on a sabbath, they immediately took counsel with each other to find a way to kill Jesus. Imagine being so hard-hearted that you RESENT a man for HEALING a sick person. That’s depraved, yet that’s how those Pharisees were. They did this stuff to Jesus over and over again, infuriated at him because he HEALED people on the sabbath. You have to have a heart of STONE to call a man a Demoniac because he heals a man and makes him whole (by divine power !! ) on the Sabbath. Such prideful, vicious persons can never be revived to repentance. That is why Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Pope John Paul II, and all Catholic theologians hold the Unforgivable Sin to be the state of final impenitence, because there is no sin that will not be forgiven if the person repents. A emotional outburst, even if blasphemous, due to hurt, confusion, fear, whatever, so long as you repent, is NOT the sin that Jesus referred to as “blaspheming the Holy Spirit.” It is the Spirit that PROVOKES repentance.

Jaypeeto4
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You are correct and I am in agreement concerning the heart.
For there is where the God of the universe resides, in the temple of our hearts.
Yet, while we are in the flesh, our hearts can become hardened due to the lusts of the flesh over the spirit of God.
Persistence in that attitude can only become unforgivable while it continues, yet, upon a change of mind, there is found forgiveness.

The Holy Spirit is the last resort to our link with God, since Jesus came and gone.

As for The Holy Spirit being God, absolutely.

The name yahshua is the name of Jesus, which means Yah=Father and shua = salvation interpreted as “The Fathers salvation”, meaning that the new name by which all mankind should be saved is Jesus, almighty God, mighty counselor.

The Holy Spirit is God in Spirit abiding in the temple of our hearts as Jesus’ name is voiced.

There is no other name under heaven by which mankind can be saved.

Yes, the Holy Scriptures is to me the “Sola Escritura”, for there I find Gods wonderful works, neatly placed and perfectly executed to the benefit of mankind.

I am blessed more so that all my ancestors in that the knowledge revealed in this day and time is one that supercedes the knowledge that then was, for God has revealed Himself more so by modern print, and by the Internet.

May His name be blessed for ever!

Peace>>>AJ