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Jason
You apparently have an issue with the English language?
"...have blasphemed Me BY acting treacherously against Me" They have committed blasphemy....they did it by acting treacherously. This is not a comparison, it is not a substitution. The word is "by" not "like" or "as if". One is the actions that defines the term. Kind of like "You commited murder by shooting that person" You are not comparing or substituting anything...you are explaining how it is you commited murder.
And yes what does blasphemy mean? Let's pull out the Meriam Webster again shall we -
"the ACT of insutling or showing contempt or lack of reverence for God" Ezekiel 20:27, 2 Kings 19, Isaiah 37.
"the ACT of claiming the attributes of deity" John 10
The only people disagreeing with you are the Jews. They called Christ a blasphemer because He claimed to be God. (And like you I agree that Christ was right)....but it goes to show another definition of blasphemy.
Yes maybe you should...read it closer.
What does verse 23 say Sennacherib claims to have done? He did not just give God a tongue lashing did he? "With my chariots I came up to the heights of the mountains, to the remotest parts of Lebanon; And I cut down all its tall cedars and its choice cypresses. And I entered its farthest lodging places, its thickest forest." This is what Sennecherib "reproached the Lord" Not only through his words, but also by his actions Sennecherib blasphemed the loard....Reproach is and expression of rebuke which is speaking in angry and critical ways...it is verbal. If blasphemy is only verbal, then it was redundant to say "reproached and blasphemed" in 2 Kings 19:22
Not a gross interpretation at all. No matter how you look at it...rejection of the Holy Spirit in this world will get you no forgiveness...every...in this world or a thousand other worlds to come (if there were a thousand worlds to come). Christ used that as an emphasis to say that this is your one chance to seek forgiveness. There are no second chances.
If I am to remain consistent in definitions by using Merriam I concede this point. However, on legal grounds as far as the law is concerned these are two different things..murder is defined as wrongfully taking another persons life. And I agree that the Bible would not condone it. However, consider this...if someone throws themselves off a bridge and repents on the way down, are they forgiven? Your comment about asking forgiveness can only come after the fact is not actually true, it can come during the act.
not stated in the text? Did you not read Leviticus 24:16 "the one who blasphemes the name of the Lord shall surely be put to death"
And I am not making leaps, I am actually the one understanding the definition of blasphemy and not putting it in a box that it does not fit into. Blaphemy by definition is not restricted to verbal utterances. Quit trying to put it in that box.
no he is not...but he is saying that his blasphemy is because of his unbelief.
Does he say never did that? What verse says that? All I see is Paul admitting he was a blasphemer. Paul says later in 1 Timothy 1:15 that he was the foremost of all sinners. I guess that was not true was it...for you would say that those that blasphemed the Holy Spirit never received forgiveness....thus they must have been foremost of all sinners right? So did Paul lie, or did Christ? OR is blaspheming the Holy Spirit rejecting the Grace of God in this life.
If you reject the grace of God in this life, that is if you die in this life rejecting the grace of God, then you have commited the unforgivable sin, you have shown no reverence to God, you have shown great disrespect towards God by refusing His free gift of salvation. Sorry if that was not clear in my post.
What I said stands. If you do not accept what I said back with God's Word, then there is no reason to keep arguing over it.
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