Blasphemy- Can I be forgiven?

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I want to try to make this short with my story. 3 years ago I became born again and had an encounter with Christ. Before I hated him and Christians. Until I randomly changed my mind one day and began to pray to him at my lowest. I bowed down to him and submitted. The following year we grew apart. The next I rekindled things until I was madly in love with an atheist and chose him over God. I believe God had him break up with me to say “Look at your actions! You chose a human over me!”. We grew apart again and I once again was tempted to date an atheist. Only that time I was sexually assaulted and I felt as if I sinned against God so badly. I felt ashamed and hopeless. Only until I begged God to control my tongue when my ex was being verbally abusive and he did for me. I felt the holy spirit with me all the way up until I fell back into my reoccurring masturbation habits. I turned back to God and made a decision not to idolize guys anymore and to only date a christian guy who God approve of. I want to overcome my masturbation and pornography viewing. I want to obey God’s will and crucify my sinful desires. However, I didn’t even know I’ve obtained blasphemous beliefs. I thought the catholic church was idolatrous and disobedient to God. God opened my eyes yesterday through my catholic family and made me realize i was WRONG. I turned away from my beliefs and began embracing Catholicism once again. But have I finally crossed the line? Am I even worthy of being saved for disrespecting his true church?
 
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Of course there is time to repent and start a new life in Christ. The good thief on the cross repented and was forgiven just hours before his death.
 
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But have I finally crossed the line? Am I even worthy of being saved for disrespecting his true church?
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We do not believe once saved always saved, but we have a remedy for our fallen nature; the sacrament of penance.

None of us are “worthy”, but by accepting the freely given Grace of God offered through the sacraments, our hopes will be realized!

Peace and all good!
 
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But have I finally crossed the line? Am I even worthy of being saved for disrespecting his true church?
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There is no line you could cross that would put you out of God’s reach. His mercy is available to everyone. You are worthy of being saved. We are all made in God’s image. Pray and trust in God.
 
All your past sins can be forgiven if you confess them and seek absolution from his representative on earth ( Priest) and there is no Catholics here that have not sinned and continue to do so that is why we have been given grace to confess. Welcome home by the way.
 
In this case I recommend that you go to confession and speak to the priest. The mercy of Jesus is greater than the ocean and bigger than the highest mountain.
 
Do you doubt God’s mercy? Trust Him. Whenever we’re repentant, He’s always there to forgive us in the sacrament of reconciliation.
 
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Yes, you can be forgiven. You have not crossed any line beyond which God cannot reach.
 
I think the answer for all questions that go along the lines of “Am I beyond God’s forgiveness?” is no. God’s mercy is infinite. The only time He won’t or actually, can’t, forgive us is when we refuse to repent. How can a mother forgive her son for stealing money from the piggy bank if he continues to do so?
 
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How can a mother forgive her son for stealing money from the piggy bank if he continues to do so?
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I would just like to point out, though, that committing a sin over and over again does not prevent God’s forgiveness. We all fall short of the glory of God, and I hazard a guess that most of us have specialties in the sinning department — whatever sin is our problem, we tend to commit it over and over again, notwithstanding our constant attempts to repent and atone. God knows this and loves us anyway — even when we’re on instance number 28,348 of that particular sin.

The only unforgivable sin is known as blaspheming the Holy Spirit — but even that isn’t what it sounds like. When Jesus told us that blaspheming the Holy Spirit cannot be forgiven, he wasn’t talking about saying mean things to the Holy Spirit; he was talking about the sin of despair.

The sin of despair is not the same as the mental disease of depression. Depression is a mental condition in which (and I’m vastly oversimplifying here) the patient is trapped in a mental state that prevents proper functioning. The sin of despair is the spiritual condition in which the person denies (or at least refuses) the saving power of God. The classic example is “I’m such a bad person. I’ve done so many horrible things. No one can possibly love me. There’s no way that God would ever want me, and He certainly can’t forgive me for what I’ve done.” A person trapped in the worst versions of this worldview can’t make it to Heaven because s/he can’t accept God’s forgiveness. It isn’t a question of a vengeful God viciously denying redemption (and not even a question of a just God regretfully imposing a well-deserved penalty); it’s a question of a despairing sinner failing to accept mercy.

God is always willing to forgive. The concept of the “unforgivable sin” is simply a tautological statement that you can’t have what you refuse to accept.

My suggestion is that you try to stop obsessing over whether you deserve to be forgiven. None of us is worthy of God’s mercy — but He offers it to us anyway. Pray to God, seek the advice of a spiritual counselor, and rely on the fact that God wants you — yes, you specifically — to grow in happiness with Him.

I hope this helps.
 
My point was God can’t forgive us until we repent of that sin. But He’s always willing to forgive, so committing a sin 5000000 times won’t prevent Him from forgiving you, provided you’re repentant
 
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