The Unforgivable Sin

No. . .you need to clean up the language in the post a bit, but I think you're OK. . .
The thing is, you came to Christ for salvation. That's what matters. . .and if you had irreparably blasphemed the Holy Spirit (which is something you can only do with full knowledge that you are doing so and with the intent of the heart being to reject God) you would not be looking for His forgiveness and salvation through faith in Jesus Christ. And you definitely would not have recieved Him as your Lord and Savior if you had committed that blasphemy.
Could you do something, for me? Read Romans, chapter 8. -^.^-

Originally posted by Sharky
I pretty much feel like a rock in the hole now.  I think i may have commited the Unforgivable sin. Blaspheming the holy spirit.

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You haven't, so relax. Blaspheming against the Holy Spirit requires a continual rejection, an unrepentant heart and apostasy. The fact that you were only 7 or 8 would exclude you straight off. And the fact that you are repentant about it. It's for people who reject the Holy Spirit - the fact that you are Christian means you have accepted Him.

 

You cannot be lost again. Christ says that he is the shepard and no one can take us from his hand. I believe it is Paul who says that if a man deny Christ, he was never with Him. Or something like that.

don't we all feel guilty about sins that we've committed in the past? that's exactly why we need Jesus to away our sins, sometimes the feeling of guilt stays, but we've got to learn to look towards the future and not to repeat the same sin twice.
i wholeheartedly agree with Susan and Erwin. Let Jesus take away your anxiety, Sharky.

Read Mark 3:22-30.
Also, Matthew 9:32-34, 12:22-32, here Matthew says he is addressing the Pharisees.

When Jesus mentioned grieving the Holy Spirit, he was talking to the scribes, who attributed his good works to the power of evil. Blaspheming the Holy Spirit is attributing the work of the Holy Spirit to the work of the devil.
You have to be messed up to do that. I don't think you have anything to worry about.

I've been gone awhile... hello everyone! Just been wqorkin on my golf game. I made the JV team the other day! Woohoo!

As to reply.

There's a saying which goes: if your worried you've committed the unforgiveable sin, you haven't.

What ever sin you may have committed... Jesus forgives you. He says he will... he wants to, you want him to. It's done. But sometimes, for most of us, it's forgiving ourselves thats the hardest part. For me it is atleast. Don't worry. We have God. We have Jesus. We have our eternity planned out for us by the wisest, most intellegent and loving Person. God is there.

God Forgives Thoes Who Are Turlly Sorry For Their Sins
U Didnt Commit The Unforgivable Sin
SO RELAX!
Bye and God Bless!
-Andrea

Do you love god and feel him in you working in you and using you to do his work?

If yes then I wouldent worry because it means god is with you and using you and growing inside of you. Dunno quite how to put this but you would be empty if you were guilty of unforgivable sin because you would be outside the presence of god.

When you blasphemy the Holy Spirit, it is the deliberate refusal to acknowledge God's power in Christ. ...resulting in irreversible hardening of the heart. The reason it is unforgivable isnt that it is worse than all other sins so much is that you will never ask for forgiveness because you have removed yourself from the only source that could possibly restore you to God. You have essentially turned your back on God and rejected faith in Him.

I think that the Unforgivable Sin was seeing Jesus do miracles, yet claiming that it was the work of Satan. Because you see Jesus do the actual miracles and you still don't believe, you really aren't ever going to believe, so in a sense it's unforgivable. My youth pastor gave realy good reasons, but I don't have my notes with me. I'll post better then that when I can get to them (in like, 5 days)

Now if that's blaspheming against the holy spirit, then i'm condemned for eternity. It's unforgivable. At the moment i almost feel like i could puke all over the floor.

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Oh please don't feel that way! You haven't committed any sin, you've just been human! That isn't blaspheme of the Spirit at all!

Blasphemy of the Spirit is to hear His call on your heart and ignore it, saying that there is no such thing as God.

You haven't done that, you have heard and accepted Him. It is not possible for you to now blaspheme Him.

I would even add that it isn't necessary to say that phrase at all. God hears your prayers without you having to say, "In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit." That's a convention, not a commandment.

God would never condemn you for not doing something He didn't even command us to do!

I'm pretty new at this, but you say you accepted Jesus's gift of salvation and left your sins at the cross.  Then, you noticed that the weight of your sins was not there and said "I'd better go back and get those sins.  I don't want to just leave them lying around." 

I have had problems with this as well.  As I found my way back to my faith, I changed my ways but was still living with the pain of my past.  I was used to the weight of horrible sin and evil.  I finally opened up and accepted Jesus into my life along with his gift of salvation.  I had been carrying around the heavy weight of sin, decadence, & evil for years.  I was not prepared for the feeling of having all of that bad stuff gone.  I kept going back and trying to toss some of the evil of my past life back onto my shoulders.

If you change your ways, repent, and ask Jesus for salvation doesn't that cover everything?  Read that question again. (Go ahead, read the question once more ....... done yet?  Okay, I'll go on&nbsp  I dunno, I'm not an expert but I think that categorizing some sins as unforgiveable sorta trivializes the sacrifice made for us by Christ.  Take a look at (Simon) Peter.  He denied knowing Jesus three times and watched him die.  Did Jesus come back and say, "well, the rest of y'all are forgiven but I cannot forgive you Peter 'cause you wouldn't even admit that you knew me."?  No.  His gift is sufficient for all those who repent and follow him. 

As I said I am pretty new at this.  If I got anything wrong someone type up. (I would say speak up but I still couldn't hear you.)

Awake, wonderful post, thank you!

If the devil is attacking your mind with this one as I know he did me .I know how you feel it's the lowest of lows. And he didn't like to let go. If you get in touch with Charles Stanley intouch magazine earlier this year. Im sure they will be able to help. Now his teaching set and cleared the air and put the devil in his place so firm with me that the devil hasn't even tried to come back.

Oh Carmen, I am a BIG Charles Stanley fan!! More than a preacher, Dr. Stanley is also a teacher. He is filled with the love of God!

I am so glad to know you can get him on TV in NZ! Great!

Me too Auntie Belle um. He's great isn't he. Thankyou also for the compliment in the other forum. It was much appreciated, you are a wonderful encourager. God Bless you.
Carmen.

It's okay Sharky, I agree with Ewrin, you didn't do anything wrong, ya didn't know at that age, and besides you didn't do it intionally (badly mispelled) It's just bad ole satan trying to get at ya. Apprently satan ain't got anything else to do. You a saved person now so be happy, don't worry God Loves Ya.

In Christ,
Anna