Blasphemy in The Swedish Protestant Church?

Michie · Sunday at 9:49 AM

And so I tell you, every kind of sin and slander can be forgiven, but blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven (Matthew 12:31).

Does the Modern Protestant Church in Sweden Blaspheme Against the Holy Spirit?

Let us examine this question. Before we do, we should address some anticipated critiques. In confronting this question—this accusation—we must use the Bible and its narratives in a way that may appear heterodox to some, that we are not conformingto orthodox beliefs. It may seem as though we are reducing the Incarnation and the people involved in these events to mechanical abstractions, intellectualizing miracles such as the Incarnation or the Annunciation, or turning Jesus himself into mere metaphor. But this is not the case, especially if we remain faithful to the biblical story as we explore its meaning.

Christ was not merely a messenger of divine words—he was the Word. He was the message itself. This means that everything about Jesus is meaningful: every aspect of his life is instruction from God. His birth, for example, was not only a singular historical event—the birth of a child who happened to be God—but the manifestation of the Messianic principle of creativity itself. When God becomes incarnate, creativity and generation are also revealed. They always existed, just as Christ did, but now they become visible, material, and perceptible.

Perception and conception are the two key elements of this hypothesis. But we are getting ahead of ourselves. First: what is the “Holy Spirit”? If we can concretize it beyond the abstraction of living a righteous and spiritual life. Well, the religion is pretty clear about what it is: it is the way in which Christ, the Messiah, is begotten. So, how is Christ, the Messiah, begotten? To answer this question, we go to the Annunciation and verse that tells us about it, Luke 1:34, which says:

Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?

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