According to my NIV Study Bible an example of blasphemy against
the Holy Spirit was when, “…the teachers of the law attributed Jesus’ healing
to Satan’s power rather than to the Holy Spirit.” Jesus said, “I tell you the
truth, all the sins and blasphemies of men will be forgiven them. But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be
forgiven; he is guilty of an eternal sin” (Mark 328-29 NIV). I’m
wondering what blasphemy against the Holy Spirit looks like today and if we are
even cognizant of that sin. Giving credit for the Spirit’s healing power to
man-made gods, luck or astrology might well border on blasphemy of the Spirit.
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Gail;
-----“First of all you must understand this, that no prophecy of scripture is a matter of one’s own interpretation, because no prophecy ever came by the impulse of man, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.” (II Pet 1:20-21) “All scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.” (II Tim 3:16-17) “I warn every one who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if any one adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book, and if any one takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.” (Rev 22:18-19) “Let God be true though every man be false, as it is written, ‘That thou mayest be justified in thy words, and prevail when thou art judged.’” (Rom 3:4b) “I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were cold or hot! So, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of my mouth. For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing; not knowing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.” (Rev 3:15-17)
-----Every believer has two points of contact with the Holy Spirit. One is the Word of God. Although it is just a billion copies of a book disbursed around the world, every one of those copies are the ideas of the Holy Spirit from front cover to back cover. If any ink on paper ever was worthy of mankind’s full, undivided attention, it is that book called The Holy Bible. Isn’t it amazing how many of Christ’s followers today, in the Laodicean era, exhibit great confidence and stature in their visions and service to the Lord, then go searching for some strong wind that could have blown back the marshy waters of the Reed Sea, or for how the mega-blast of Santorini might have caused environmental disasters to become the ten plagues upon Egypt, or that “In the day you eat of it you will surely die” was not really talking about physical death, because God created life through the death entailing process of evolution. Every time we spit faithlessness upon God’s testimonies we do judge God’s Word. Judgment passed upon the product is also judgment of its producer, the Holy Spirit. Now, that’s a dangerous place for a false one to be in relation to a true one.
-----Acceptance of God’s Word leads to the other point of contact with the Holy Spirit. That happens continuously in the believer’s spirit. The believer becomes alive in Christ in the most important way, not a mental or emotional life, nor a life of the material making up the physical body, but God’s Spirit perfects and makes alive our spirits which then express that life through our minds, emotions, and bodies. That’s why no blasphemy of the Spirit can be forgiven.
-----I am not sure how forgiving God will be over all the slander the Laodicean church makes of His Word by minimizing what the Psalms often call “His testimonies“ into absurd coincidences, denying its historicity, and allegorizing its truths. But if slandering the product is also slandering the producer, then ground control has a problem it must solve, or its mission will abort.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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