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To my mind, Jesus, who desires us to Heal and Live, would not have made blasphemy of the Holy Spirit - with the extreme penalty for doing so being no further recourse to His Blood of Redemption - so easy to commit. If the criteria were as common as some think, 99.9% of us would be Doomed already.*The part about St. Paul would suggest that the person’s blasphemy would need to be in correlation to their level of enlightenment?
**I like the analogy about The Holy Spirit keeping us “tucked in”.
***The verse in Hebrews I thought was about baptism? But that is for another thread.
Interesting. Thank you.
God bless.
However, if one has the scales fall from their eyes and inner ears open, if they experience the Glory of the Indwelling/Filling of the Holy Spirit - then turn back to the world’s pleasures, I can see that as disatrous.
Kinda like partaking of the Bread of the Heavenly Realms and then saying, “Thanks an’ all that, but I really miss eating dung.” Or the Prodigal Son opting to return to the pig pen after the Feast and being Restored. Or (perhaps) Lot’s wife looking back with longing for the insanity of Sodom?
As I read one writer put it, I can’t blaspheme that which I have no experience of its actual existence. Maybe that’s why we can be forgiven for blaspheming God and Jesus - because we don’t have the Experience of Truth until we recieve the Witness of the Holy Spirit by whom we shall then Know, and know that we Know, that Jesus is everything He said He was/is.
To me, that doesn’t take away from the Power of the name of Jesus, nor that those who believe on His name can be saved, as Scripture says … just that those who believe only cannot be capable of blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. A great many have ‘believed on the name of Jesus’ and were baptized - and fell away. There is no blasphemy possible in that. We just aren’t to give up. Scripture assures us there is More.
Maybe the following quote alludes to true blasphemy?
“But there are victories far worse than defeats; and to overcome an Angel too gentle to put out all His strength, and ride away in triumph on the back of a devil, is one of the poorest victories.” - George MacDonald
In Jesus’ name I pray that there will somehow arise from among us Holy Disciples of Christ who can bestow the Holy Spirit upon us as Paul and the Apostles once did. When I read Acts 19:1-7, it just looks to me as if we’re missing a most needed step after Baptism (that would, indeed, “tuck us in”).
Acts 19:1-7: 1 And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples,
2 He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost.
3 And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, Unto John’s baptism.
4 Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.
5 When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
6 And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.
7 And all the men were about twelve.