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Question:
The scripture says that sins against men will be forgiven but sin against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.
Can you explain this sir?
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Answer:
Some people make statements that amounts to blasphemy. Jesus said whoever says anything against Holy Ghost will be forgiven. My opinion of that is this that when people who are supposed to know better say such horrible things directly contrary to what the Spirit of God is supposed to stand for, then this thing may apply to them. Because if you look at the instance where Jesus Christ talked about it, it was where some people blasphemed, said things that were directly opposite to what the Holy Spirit was.
Now, I would not expect God to get angry with some ignoramus who is just saying what he likes. For example if I find a - one and half year old toddler and I tried to say "come here"; and he responds by mimicking what I have said, I won't get angry with him that much. Because I know he is a toddler, he doesn't know better than that. But if I say that to a seventeen year old and he does that to me I would wonder who his father was really.
So, I don't expect people who are supposed to know better, to come up and use their mouths to say some things they ought not to say against the Spirit of God, they may be looking for trouble.
As to why it is so is another story all together. I think like a good number of bible scholars they think the arrangement is such that God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, with such an arrangement, the Holy Spirit is the one that is supposed to operate with the greatest amount of understanding, forbearing and peace with the people in all of the way we conduct ourselves. And if that is the way it is, then is not such a one too that you will come up and start to blaspheme.
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