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-(Please dont judge)I have trying to get the best relationship I can have with God but i think I blew everysince ive learned about blashemy against the holy spirit Ive have hit rock bottom . I started to have thoughts that I have never had before it i think they have got the best of me . A thought popped up in my head saying “ would sold my soul for 5,000 “ and i kept saying no but something popped in my head saying yes . I love God and would never in my life would want to betray God by selling my soul . I feel so lost everysince that happened I cry every night asking for Gods forgiveness and help but it seems like he doesn’t hear me anymore Im so upset with myself because i dont know whats wrong with me idk why would i even think that. I feel doomed .What should i do??
 

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Sounds like you have demon pestering you. Don't get rattled, just keep saying no (and praying of course). I went through a similar thing when I was first baptized. I couldn't get foul language out of my head, including words that I had never used before. After a while it passed and hasn't bothered me since. I was 14 at the time.
 
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-(Please dont judge)I have trying to get the best relationship I can have with God but i think I blew everysince ive learned about blashemy against the holy spirit Ive have hit rock bottom . I started to have thoughts that I have never had before it i think they have got the best of me . A thought popped up in my head saying “ would sold my soul for 5,000 “ and i kept saying no but something popped in my head saying yes . I love God and would never in my life would want to betray God by selling my soul . I feel so lost everysince that happened I cry every night asking for Gods forgiveness and help but it seems like he doesn’t hear me anymore Im so upset with myself because i dont know whats wrong with me idk why would i even think that. I feel doomed .What should i do??
Romans 8:38-39
“For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

Keep believing and praying...the demons and our own insecurities would like us to believe the lie that God doesn’t love us, despite the Incarnation, Crucifixion, and Resurrection, which prove otherwise.
 
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Romans 8:38-39
“For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

Keep believing and praying...the demons and our own insecurities would like us to believe the lie that God doesn’t love us, despite the Incarnation, Crucifixion, and Resurrection, which prove otherwise.
Thank you so much I really needed to read that God bless you
 
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Sounds like you have demon pestering you. Don't get rattled, just keep saying no (and praying of course). I went through a similar thing when I was first baptized. I couldn't get foul language out of my head, including words that I had never used before. After a while it passed and hasn't bothered me since. I was 14 at the time.
Thank you for your advice i appreciate it very much
 
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:cloud::cloud::crescentmoon::cloud::cloud::cloud: I love you and I felt really good reading what you typed. I am a Christian! I've had terrible thoughts like those before too. One great part about those thoughts for me is now I am an even greater Christian than I was when I was having those thoughts.
 
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Sounds like you have demon pestering you. Don't get rattled, just keep saying no (and praying of course). I went through a similar thing when I was first baptized. I couldn't get foul language out of my head, including words that I had never used before. After a while it passed and hasn't bothered me since. I was 14 at the time.
Thanks for your advice i am very greatful for it
 
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:cloud::cloud::crescentmoon::cloud::cloud::cloud: I love you and I felt really good reading what you typed. I am a Christian! I've had terrible thoughts like those before too. One great part about those thoughts for me is now I am an even greater Christian than I was when I was having those thoughts.
Thank you so much may God bless you
 
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Hi Miya, first off, WELCOME TO CF .. :wave:

Rest easy, you have not committed the unpardonable sin. You are being attacked by Satan's demons however, who are doing their best to convince you that you have! So, when these kind of thoughts come around again, refuse the thoughts, knowing they are not from God, and take them "captive", giving them over to the Lord to deal with .. 2 Corinthians 10:5 cf 1 Peter 5:7-9; James 4:7; Ephesians 6:10-17. If you feel you need to, that you've sinned in any way, then ask God to forgive you and you will be forgiven .. 1 John 1:9 :amen:

Here's a short article for you to read on the unpardonable sin from theologian Dr. J I Packer. Please take careful note of what he says as Dr. Packer tends to say a LOT with a great economy of words :)

*(the emphasis in bold below is mine, not Dr. Packer's)


UNPARDONABLE SIN

ONLY IMPENITENCE CANNOT BE FORGIVEN​

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 3:28–29

When Jesus warned the Pharisees that blasphemy against the Holy Spirit was unpardonable both in this world and in the next (Matt. 12:32; Mark 3:29–30), it was because they were saying that he exorcised demons by being in league with Satan (Beelzebub). His warning revealed his view of their spiritual state.

He could, and later did, pray for the forgiveness of those whose blasphemy against himself was the fruit of ignorance: “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing” (Luke 23:34). But that was not how he saw the Pharisees.

It is possible for people to be enlightened to the point of knowing inwardly that Jesus is the divine Savior he claims to be, and still not be willing to admit it publicly, because of all the behavioral changes that such an admission would make necessary. It is possible to try to make oneself feel good about one’s own moral dishonesty by inventing reasons, no matter how absurd, for not treating Jesus as worthy of one’s allegiance. Jesus evidently perceived that in calling him Satan’s servant the Pharisees were doing exactly that. They were not ignorant; they were stifling conviction and smothering real if unwelcome knowledge; they were resolutely shutting their eyes to the light and callousing their conscience by calling it darkness. The madness that Jesus exposed in what they were saying (Matt. 12:25–28) was an index of the pressure of conviction that they were feeling; irrational reasoning is a regular sign of conviction being resisted.

By attributing exorcisms wrought through the Holy Spirit (Matt. 12:28) to Satanic power, the Pharisees were blaspheming (speaking impiously) against the Spirit. Such a sin would become unforgivable when the conscience had been so calloused by calling good evil that all sense of the moral glory of Jesus’ mighty works (which were in a real sense his credentials: Matt. 11:2–6; John 10:38; 14:11) was destroyed. This hardening of heart against Jesus would preclude any remorse at any stage for having thus blasphemed. But nonexistence of remorse makes repentance impossible, and nonexistence of repentance makes forgiveness impossible.

Callousing one’s conscience by dishonest reasonings so as to justify denial of God’s power in Christ and rejection of his claims upon one is, then, the formula of the unpardonable sin. Another version of it, this time in professed Christians who fall away from Christ, is described in Hebrews 6:4–8. Christians who fear that they may have committed the unpardonable sin show by their very anxiety that they have not done so. Persons who have committed it are unremorseful and unconcerned; indeed, they are ordinarily unaware of what they have done and to what fate they have sentenced themselves. Jesus saw that the Pharisees were getting close to committing this sin, and he spoke as he did in hope of holding them back from fully lapsing into it. ~Packer, J. I. (1993). Concise theology: a guide to historic Christian beliefs (pp. 244–246). Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House.
Yours and His,
David
 
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-(Please dont judge)I have trying to get the best relationship I can have with God but i think I blew everysince ive learned about blashemy against the holy spirit Ive have hit rock bottom . I started to have thoughts that I have never had before it i think they have got the best of me . A thought popped up in my head saying “ would sold my soul for 5,000 “ and i kept saying no but something popped in my head saying yes . I love God and would never in my life would want to betray God by selling my soul . I feel so lost everysince that happened I cry every night asking for Gods forgiveness and help but it seems like he doesn’t hear me anymore Im so upset with myself because i dont know whats wrong with me idk why would i even think that. I feel doomed .What should i do??
From time to time we have posters on here who are afraid that they have "blasphemed the Holy Spirit"

Let me say it again.....

If you care, if you are worried, if you are concerned that you may have done such a thing....... then.... you haven't.

People who have "blasphemed the Holy Spirit...do it consciously, willingly, purposefully, intentionally and don't care or worry about it.

Someone here stated that you may have a demon pestering you... I fully agree. Satan's best work is to deceive. He and his minions will tell humans that they can't be saved, they are too sinful, too bad, God wouldn't take you after that, God doesn't love you, you aren't saved because of "x" or "y".....

Satan wants you to doubt.

But Christ said we can be sure. He will never leave us or forsake us.

If I was you, feeling like God is not with me... I would do this:

Go in a quiet room
Get on your knees
Pray to God exactly what you are saying to us.
Ask for His forgiveness for feeling this way
Tell Him that you want to renew your connection with Him
Then, in the name of Christ, rebuke Satan and all of his evil warriors. In a real voice, commit your home or apartment or the room you are in, to Christ and deem it a sanctuary free from evil. Ask God to put a hedge of protection around that place and around you.
Thank Christ for loving and keeping you.
Pray all of this in Christs name and under the power given to Him by His Father.
 
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Hi Miya, first off, WELCOME TO CF .. :wave:

Rest easy, you have not committed the unpardonable sin. You are being attacked by Satan's demons however, who are doing their best to convince you that you have! So, when these kind of thoughts come around again, refuse the thoughts, knowing they are not from God, and take them "captive", giving them over to the Lord to deal with .. 2 Corinthians 10:5 cf 1 Peter 5:7-9; James 4:7; Ephesians 6:10-17. If you feel you need to, that you've sinned in any way, then ask God to forgive you and you will be forgiven .. 1 John 1:9 :amen:

Here's a short article for you to read on the unpardonable sin from theologian Dr. J I Packer. Please take careful note of what he says as Dr. Packer tends to say a LOT with a great economy of words :)

*(the emphasis in bold below is mine, not Dr. Packer's)


UNPARDONABLE SIN

ONLY IMPENITENCE CANNOT BE FORGIVEN​

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 3:28–29

When Jesus warned the Pharisees that blasphemy against the Holy Spirit was unpardonable both in this world and in the next (Matt. 12:32; Mark 3:29–30), it was because they were saying that he exorcised demons by being in league with Satan (Beelzebub). His warning revealed his view of their spiritual state.

He could, and later did, pray for the forgiveness of those whose blasphemy against himself was the fruit of ignorance: “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing” (Luke 23:34). But that was not how he saw the Pharisees.

It is possible for people to be enlightened to the point of knowing inwardly that Jesus is the divine Savior he claims to be, and still not be willing to admit it publicly, because of all the behavioral changes that such an admission would make necessary. It is possible to try to make oneself feel good about one’s own moral dishonesty by inventing reasons, no matter how absurd, for not treating Jesus as worthy of one’s allegiance. Jesus evidently perceived that in calling him Satan’s servant the Pharisees were doing exactly that. They were not ignorant; they were stifling conviction and smothering real if unwelcome knowledge; they were resolutely shutting their eyes to the light and callousing their conscience by calling it darkness. The madness that Jesus exposed in what they were saying (Matt. 12:25–28) was an index of the pressure of conviction that they were feeling; irrational reasoning is a regular sign of conviction being resisted.

By attributing exorcisms wrought through the Holy Spirit (Matt. 12:28) to Satanic power, the Pharisees were blaspheming (speaking impiously) against the Spirit. Such a sin would become unforgivable when the conscience had been so calloused by calling good evil that all sense of the moral glory of Jesus’ mighty works (which were in a real sense his credentials: Matt. 11:2–6; John 10:38; 14:11) was destroyed. This hardening of heart against Jesus would preclude any remorse at any stage for having thus blasphemed. But nonexistence of remorse makes repentance impossible, and nonexistence of repentance makes forgiveness impossible.

Callousing one’s conscience by dishonest reasonings so as to justify denial of God’s power in Christ and rejection of his claims upon one is, then, the formula of the unpardonable sin. Another version of it, this time in professed Christians who fall away from Christ, is described in Hebrews 6:4–8. Christians who fear that they may have committed the unpardonable sin show by their very anxiety that they have not done so. Persons who have committed it are unremorseful and unconcerned; indeed, they are ordinarily unaware of what they have done and to what fate they have sentenced themselves. Jesus saw that the Pharisees were getting close to committing this sin, and he spoke as he did in hope of holding them back from fully lapsing into it. ~Packer, J. I. (1993). Concise theology: a guide to historic Christian beliefs (pp. 244–246). Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House.
Yours and His,
David
Thank you this is very helpful you are such a blessing
 
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From time to time we have posters on here who are afraid that they have "blasphemed the Holy Spirit"

Let me say it again.....

If you care, if you are worried, if you are concerned that you may have done such a thing....... then.... you haven't.

People who have "blasphemed the Holy Spirit...do it consciously, willingly, purposefully, intentionally and don't care or worry about it.

Someone here stated that you may have a demon pestering you... I fully agree. Satan's best work is to deceive. He and his minions will tell humans that they can't be saved, they are too sinful, too bad, God wouldn't take you after that, God doesn't love you, you aren't saved because of "x" or "y".....

Satan wants you to doubt.

But Christ said we can be sure. He will never leave us or forsake us.

If I was you, feeling like God is not with me... I would do this:

Go in a quiet room
Get on your knees
Pray to God exactly what you are saying to us.
Ask for His forgiveness for feeling this way
Tell Him that you want to renew your connection with Him
Then, in the name of Christ, rebuke Satan and all of his evil warriors. In a real voice, commit your home or apartment or the room you are in, to Christ and deem it a sanctuary free from evil. Ask God to put a hedge of protection around that place and around you.
Thank Christ for loving and keeping you.
Pray all of this in Christs name and under the power given to Him by His Father.
Thank you so much i will do that thanks for being so helpful
 
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Hi again Miya, when I became a Christian a little over 30 years ago, I was attacked horribly by Satan as well (he apparently gets mad when we leave his camp for God's for some reason ;)).

One of my spiritual mentors back then recommended a book to me by C S Lewis, a Christian classic actually called, The Screwtape Letters, and I think that would be a great book (it's really a collection of short stories that Lewis broadcast live on the radio decades ago) for you to read now. It's told from the demons POV .. so when you read the word "Enemy" in that book, for instance, it's God who is being referred to.

It's fiction, but even so, I don't believe there's a another book out there (when taken along with the Bible, of course) that will better equip you to recognize demonic attacks for what they are.

You can read it for free online here, but if you can afford it, there is a wonderful annotated edition that was recently released with both Prefaces (which are very important to read first) and a lot of other historical information that is both interesting and helpful .. which you can find here.

God bless you! (Numbers 6:24-26; Jude 24-25)

--David
p.s. - while I'm talking about C S Lewis and books, I cannot help but HIGHLY recommend his other classic, Mere Christianity (or for free here), but The Screwtape Letters is more important for you to read right now I would think.
 
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Hi again Miya, when I became a Christian a little over 30 years ago, I was attacked horribly by Satan as well (he apparently gets mad when we leave his camp for God's for some reason ;)).

One of my spiritual mentors back then recommended a book to me by C S Lewis, a Christian classic actually called, The Screwtape Letters, and I think that would be a great book (it's really a collection of short stories that Lewis broadcast live on the radio decades ago) for you to read now. It's told from the demons POV .. so when you read the word "Enemy" in that book, for instance, it's God who is being referred to.

It's fiction, but even so, I don't believe there's a another book out there (along with the Bible) that will better equip you to recognize demonic attacks for what they are.

You can read it for free online here, but if you can afford it, there is a wonderful annotated edition that was recently released with both Prefaces (which are very important to read first) and a lot of other historical information that is both interesting and helpful .. which you can find here.

God bless you! (Numbers 6:24-26; Jude 24-25)

--David
p.s. - while I'm talking about C S Lewis and books, I cannot help but HIGHLY recommend his other classic, Mere Christianity, but The Screwtape Letters is more important for you to read right now I would think.
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Thank you so much God bless
 
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-(Please dont judge)I have trying to get the best relationship I can have with God but i think I blew everysince ive learned about blashemy against the holy spirit Ive have hit rock bottom . I started to have thoughts that I have never had before it i think they have got the best of me . A thought popped up in my head saying “ would sold my soul for 5,000 “ and i kept saying no but something popped in my head saying yes . I love God and would never in my life would want to betray God by selling my soul . I feel so lost everysince that happened I cry every night asking for Gods forgiveness and help but it seems like he doesn’t hear me anymore Im so upset with myself because i dont know whats wrong with me idk why would i even think that. I feel doomed .What should i do??
I would stop worrying.
 
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-(Please dont judge)I have trying to get the best relationship I can have with God but i think I blew everysince ive learned about blashemy against the holy spirit Ive have hit rock bottom . I started to have thoughts that I have never had before it i think they have got the best of me . A thought popped up in my head saying “ would sold my soul for 5,000 “ and i kept saying no but something popped in my head saying yes . I love God and would never in my life would want to betray God by selling my soul . I feel so lost everysince that happened I cry every night asking for Gods forgiveness and help but it seems like he doesn’t hear me anymore Im so upset with myself because i dont know whats wrong with me idk why would i even think that. I feel doomed .What should i do??
We're not accountable for all thoughts that just pop into our heads. If it's against your will, God knows that. Furthermore, your soul belongs to Jesus, not you, if you are a Christian. Christ is the homeowner, you're just the renter now. A renter can't sell his residence since he doesn't own it.

"Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body." - 1 Corinthians 6:19-20

If for some reason you have not been a Christian, you can still become one and be saved, as well:

"And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written, 'The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.' And he rolled up the scroll and gave it back to the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him. And he began to say to them, 'Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.'" - Luke 4:17-21

"The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly." -John 10:10

"All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out." - John 6:37
 
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We're not accountable for all thoughts that just pop into our heads. If it's against your will, God knows that. Furthermore, your soul belongs to Jesus, not you, if you are a Christian. Christ is the homeowner, you're just the renter now. A renter can't sell his residence since he doesn't own it.

"Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body." - 1 Corinthians 6:19-20

If for some reason you have not been a Christian, you can still become one and be saved, as well:

"And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written, 'The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.' And he rolled up the scroll and gave it back to the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him. And he began to say to them, 'Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.'" - Luke 4:17-21

"The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly." -John 10:10

"All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out." - John 6:37
Thank you so much
 
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I have trying to get the best relationship I can have with God but i think I blew everysince ive learned about blashemy against the holy spirit Ive have hit rock bottom . I started to have thoughts that I have never had before it i think they have got the best of me
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How does the Word of God define blasphemy against the Holy Spirit.?(MARK.3:20-30) = the Jews and Pharisees accused Jesus Christ as having an unclean or evil spirit, Beelzebub,the ruler of demons, and was using evil/demonic powers to bring about healing and miracles. Did you accuse Jesus Christ of having an evil spirit, instead of the Holy Spirit.?

Accusing and condemning(tempting, evil, etc) thoughts come from our enemy, the devil/Satan. This is so because all humans have been born with Adam's Original Sin.(GENESIS.3)
 
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