{"id":6951,"date":"2024-01-26T18:31:28","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T13:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/26\/what-is-blasphemy-against-the-holy-spirit\/"},"modified":"2024-01-26T18:31:28","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T13:01:28","slug":"what-is-blasphemy-against-the-holy-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/26\/what-is-blasphemy-against-the-holy-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div class=\"video\">\n<div class=\"graphic alt-ratio\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What Is Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit? (Fred Sanders)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NXkoIpjseCw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<h2>An Unforgivable Thing<\/h2>\n<p>There is this phrase in Scripture\u2014\u201cblasphemy of the Holy Spirit.\u201d It\u2019s in Jesus\u2019s teaching where he explicitly goes through and describes all the things that will be forgiven of people and then closes that talk by saying that the one thing that will not be forgiven in this world or the next is blasphemy against the Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n<p>Understandably, this has drawn a lot of attention. And there are a couple of ways to look at it in the context of where it occurs in Jesus\u2019s ministry and the Gospels. I think that\u2019s legitimate and helpful, and you\u2019d want to look even at the distinct Gospels and see how Jesus talks about it in the different accounts. <\/p>\n<p>But theologically, I think the big picture you have to see is that it\u2019s not that the Holy Spirit is somehow different than God or holier than the other two persons. There\u2019s nothing about the identity of the Spirit as a person of the Trinity that sets him apart as the one you\u2019re not allowed to blaspheme. <\/p>\n<p>Of course, we\u2019re not talking about who you\u2019re allowed to blaspheme, but we\u2019re talking about forgiveness when it comes to the Spirit. I think the way to understand this is that the Spirit of the Son\u2014being the Spirit of the Father\u2014brings into our lives a kind of wholeness with regard to God and a kind of finality or completion as well, the Spirit being the third person of the Trinity.<\/p>\n<div class=\"product-placement list-item clear\">\n<div class=\"product-placement-image\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.crossway.org\/books\/the-holy-spirit-tpb-2\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Holy Spirit\" src=\"https:\/\/static.crossway.org\/studio-files\/media\/f4e020585d7d94df51c65e50606859723cc2e434.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-excerpt\">\n<h3>\n<em><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.crossway.org\/authors\/fred-sanders\/\">Fred Sanders<\/a><br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\n<\/h3>\n<p class=\"copy-excerpt\">In this addition to the Short Studies in Systematic Theology series, Fred Sanders teaches readers how to hold a proper understanding of both the person and power of the Holy Spirit, exploring his role in both the Old and New Testaments.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s weird to say he is the final person of the Trinity, but there is a kind of perfection or fulfillment that goes on in the work of the Spirit. So I\u2019m pretty sure that what Jesus is pointing to there is that kind of finality or fulfillment or purpose of the ways of God, indicating that there is a way of putting off the Holy Spirit which has this final character to it.<\/p>\n<p>I should also mention that I think the safest way to interpret that passage is that it is not an event you should picture. Like, \u201cDid I last Thursday blaspheme the Holy Spirit and thereby cross a line that can never be uncrossed?\u201d I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any reason to treat it as an episodic event. <\/p>\n<p>There was a really sad trend a few years ago of young people going on YouTube and posting videos of themselves blaspheming the Holy Spirit as a way of publicly deconverting and saying, \u201cIf there\u2019s a thing I can do that can make me never Christian again, I\u2019m going to do that on film and post it to the internet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well, it\u2019s tremendously sad, but one thing you want to say to those kids is you did not succeed in shutting the door to God by blaspheming the Holy Spirit. The words you said, the thing you did, even your intent to rebel as hard as you could, does not shut the door to forgiveness.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not what blasphemy of the Holy Spirit means.<\/p>\n<p><em>Fred Sanders is the author of<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crossway.org\/books\/the-holy-spirit-tpb-2\/\">The Holy Spirit: An Introduction<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"clear\"\/>\n<div class=\"blog-post-author clear\">\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/static.crossway.org\/authors\/small\/1145.jpg\" alt=\"Fred Sanders\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"author-bio\">\n<p><strong>Fred Sanders<\/strong> (PhD, Graduate Theological Union) is professor of theology at the Torrey Honors College at Biola University. Sanders is the author of <em>The Deep Things of God<\/em> and blogs at <a href=\"http:\/\/fredfredfred.com\/\">fredfredfred.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<hr class=\"clear\"\/>\n<h2>Related Articles<\/h2>\n<div class=\"thumbnails clear\">\n<article class=\"post list-item\">\n<section class=\"post-excerpt right\">\n<p>\n        <strong><br \/>\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crossway.org\/articles\/10-key-bible-verses-on-the-trinity\/\"><br \/>\n            10 Key Bible Verses on the Trinity<br \/>\n          <\/a><br \/>\n        <\/strong>\n      <\/p>\n<section class=\"post-meta\">\n      September 03, 2023<br \/>\n    <\/section>\n<p>All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. 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