How do i know i have commited the unpardonable sin?

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When Jesus died for OUR sins, does it mean ALL? Because all the sins we did are ours.
 
The BLASPHEMY is a part i am confused with. I think its saying something about the Holy Spirit which is unforgivable. I know Jesus never lies, but is that what makes the unforgivable sin unforgivable?
 
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The BLASPHEMY is a part i am confused with. I think its saying something about the Holy Spirit which is unforgivable. I know Jesus never lies, but is that what makes the unforgivable sin unforgivable?
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No, it’s not just words, but intending such malice that the person won’t let his or heart be turned back to Jesus.

Are you Catholic?
 
I am Christian. Well, i go to a Catholic Church to attend masses
 
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Look, Ihavequestions1, you are missing the point here.

Jesus died for all our sins, but Catholic teaching, as Salibi noted, is that we are also required to TURN from sin, to REPENT from sin.

If you committed ANY sin, you can be forgiven IF you repent.

If you don’t repent of your sins, then the fact that Jesus died for you and for your sins doesn’t magically take away sins of which you have not repented. Otherwise people would say, “I can sin all I want because Jesus died for my sins so they don’t matter.”

When Jesus talks about “the unforgivable sin”, he means a person’s unrepented rejection of God. In other words, you harden your heart to God/ Jesus/ the Holy Spirit and you do not repent of that.
When you act like this then you have also rejected God’s gift of forgiveness and salvation through Jesus’ death on the cross.

As people have said above, if you are worrying that you committed “the unforgivable sin” then you obviously haven’t rejected God/ Jesus/ the Holy Spirit because you are worried that you sinned against them. If you had rejected them, you wouldn’t care. So you haven’t committed “the unforgivable sin”. You can be forgiven if you sincerely repent.

We are Catholics and our faith is based on Scripture AND Sacred Tradition, so we do not base our beliefs solely on flipping open the Bible and finding something in there, although the Bible is a large part of our beliefs.

I hope this makes it more clear for you.
 
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If you’re still alive, you haven’t committed the unpardonable sin.

Because the unpardonable sin can only happen in your final moment, and it consists in saying your final “no” to God, to His mercy and to salvation.
 
Canon 1864: "Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven."136 There are no limits to the mercy of God, but anyone who deliberately refuses to accept his mercy by repenting, rejects the forgiveness of his sins and the salvation offered by the Holy Spirit.137 Such hardness of heart can lead to final impenitence and eternal loss.

Practically it means that every sin you confess - you will be forgiven of. But if you die in an unconfessed mortal sin - then you have refused to accept God´s mercy offered to you through His spirit - it is blasphemy regarding the Holy Spirit.
 
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I was always taught that if you were worried you might have committed the unforgivable sin, you hadn’t. That at least part of it was being so unconcerned about the sin in your life that you saw no need to either repent or ever pay attention to anything the Holy Spirit had to say.
 
You’ll only know that you’ve committed the unpardonable sin if you find yourself in hell.
 
The unforgivable sin is the sin of dying in a state of mortal sin and separation from God, in an ultimate choice to harden one’s heart against the Spirit. Jesus died for all sins, but He cannot save those who, through their own free will, chose to damn themselves by ignoring the promptings of the Holy Spirit to repent. (The act of persisting in sin is the “unforgivable sin”).

Unfortunately, I’m a bit short on time right now, and I’m expounding on this quickly and
incomprehensively. I shall leave it in the capable hands of other posters.
 
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If you’re asking yourself if you’ve committed the unforgivable sin, odds are you haven’t.
 
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