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Are you going to answer these simple questions?
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Are you going to answer these simple questions?
Can a person blaspheme the Holy Spirit after the Last Day?
The consummation of the age is indeed the end of the world. It is the last day!
It is the end of time and the beginning of eternity. It is the end of sin and the beginning of the eternal state. It is the end of corruption and the beginning of perfection. It is the end of the curse and the beginning of glorification.
Answering questions with a question = avoidance.
I have never seen the last day referenced as the end of the age. You'll have to show me that in scripture.
Now you've devolved into making accusations.
I asked you the question because I showed in scripture that Jesus said that the sin of blaspheming the Holy Spirit would occur in the age to come and wouldn't be forgiven. I was hoping you'd consider the scripture and answer that question for yourself. I didn't expect you'd harden your mind to consideration and come back accusing
That is not so. I apologize if it came across that way.
So far you have avoided/ignored a wealth of detail supporting my argument. I believe that is unfair. I am again requesting you address those arguments please.
Unfair to quote scripture which doesn't reconcile with your interpretation?
Obviously there is more than one age spoken of in the bible. Jesus does often mention a future age which is after the day of Judgement. The Matthew passage does indicate that blasphemy of the holy spirit results in eternal condemnation. That is the main thrust I agree.
If you want to delineate all of history as having only two ages, earthly history and heaven, it makes no difference to the gospel message. But the bible is not universal in its treatment of ages as you suggest. And If I read that there are more than two ages, it makes no difference to the gospel. The plan of salvation is not hurt by either belief.
The term last days indicates something that is nearing its end. To say we're still in the last days of prophecy (Joel 2 for instance) is to imply that that prophecy is yet to be fulfilled and that's where I draw a line. There was an end to the old covenant. So I see that as the end of the last days spoken of in prophecy. We're obviously not in the age of heaven and we're not under the old covenant so we're in some sort of an age between the two that began with the church's establishment on the day of Pentecost and was prepared by the arrival of John the baptist. If you don't want to call it that, I don't care.
Unfair to quote scripture which doesn't reconcile with your interpretation?
Obviously there is more than one age spoken of in the bible. Jesus does often mention a future age which is after the day of Judgement. The Matthew passage does indicate that blasphemy of the holy spirit results in eternal condemnation. That is the main thrust I agree.
If you want to delineate all of history as having only two ages, earthly history and heaven, it makes no difference to the gospel message. But the bible is not universal in its treatment of ages as you suggest. And If I read that there are more than two ages, it makes no difference to the gospel. The plan of salvation is not hurt by either belief.
The term last days indicates something that is nearing its end. To say we're still in the last days of prophecy (Joel 2 for instance) is to imply that that prophecy is yet to be fulfilled and that's where I draw a line. There was an end to the old covenant. So I see that as the end of the last days spoken of in prophecy. We're obviously not in the age of heaven and we're not under the old covenant so we're in some sort of an age between the two that began with the church's establishment on the day of Pentecost and was prepared by the arrival of John the baptist. If you don't want to call it that, I don't care.
Now, are you going to address the many scripture and points that I presented that show a climatic coming of Jesus and the introduction of the perfect state? Also, are you going to answer the questions that I listed?
Last day is end of the millennium.The Last Day I would agree is that. But I don't agree that this was ever referred to as the end of the age.
Last day is end of the millennium.
End of the age is the beginning of the millennium, when Jesus brings the Kingdom of God to the be ruling kingdom over all kingdoms on the earth.
That interpretation of yours does not correspond to reality, because Satan goes about as a roaring lion seeking who he can destroy.He has already done that. The scriptures are not even controversial about that.
No. I'm not. You're engaging in a pointless dispute. I'm not obligated to answer your litmus test questions. None of this has any bearing on the gospel. Nobody is condemned if they don't see things exactly as you do on the ages question. You asserted that the bible teaches only two ages. Whether or not this is true, and scripture does indeed indicate that there could be more than two, one is not required to believe anything about this subject other than knowing that there is a last day of judgement and a new heavenly age.
How many ages is Paul indicating here? Do you think the Holy Spirit was causing him to write error?
Ephesians 2
and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
No. I'm not. You're engaging in a pointless dispute. I'm not obligated to answer your litmus test questions. None of this has any bearing on the gospel. Nobody is condemned if they don't see things exactly as you do on the ages question. You asserted that the bible teaches only two ages. Whether or not this is true, and scripture does indeed indicate that there could be more than two, one is not required to believe anything about this subject other than knowing that there is a last day of judgement and a new heavenly age.
How many ages is Paul indicating here? Do you think the Holy Spirit was causing him to write error?
Ephesians 2
and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
I think it is only fair to expect you to answer my questions when I am answering yours
"When used in the plural they refer to an extremely long period or the eternal."
But you're not answering mine. How does this change the gospel?
As in more than one and as Paul uses it he indicates there are more than one in the future. How does this dispute affect the Gospel message? Does anyone go to hell for thinking there might be more than two ages?
When have I said that?
I was simply trying to show you that the coming of the Lord concludes “this age” and ushers in “the end of the age.” The biblical dynamic between “this age” and “the age to come” is repeatedly shown to be that between time and eternity, corruption and incorruption, this current heavens and earth and the new heavens and new earth.
I presented strong biblical evidence to support my thesis but you failed to address it at all, choosing rather just to keep repeating what you believed. But personal opinion does not come into the argument; Scripture overrides that all the time.
But there was an end of the Jewish age.
We know that because it was referenced as "last days" and other phrases. And we know that that age ended and that's what the prophecies were dealing with.
By definition, that means a new age began when that one ended. But if you can't accept that, then we can just agree to disagree and you can stop hounding me with your litmus questions.
You trotted out a bunch of scriptures talking about eternity as if they are the same thing as the end of a human age. They're not. The bible has no universal phrases that mean the same thing every time they're encountered.