What is the sin against the Holy Spirit?

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What is the sin against the Holy Spirit?

The Evangelists, Matthew (12:30-32), Mark (3:28-29), and Luke (12:10), gave summarized but sufficient accounts of Jesus’s explanation of the unforgivable sin against the Holy Spirit, the minimum necessary for the purpose of bringing people to belief and salvation. On September 2nd, 1945, Jesus showed Maria Valtorta this same scene in a vision, which she described at length as a first-hand witness. Jesus, through Maria, His instrument, or “pen”, brings this Gospel scene to life, helps one to understand it more clearly and live it out better. I’ve extracted, copied, and pasted His explanation in full from The Poem of the Man-God: Vol. 2 (ch. 268, p. 434) below:

Do you not know that there will be a century that will have a beginning but no end and that it will be Mine? I shall triumph in it gathering round Me its children and they will live forever like the century that I shall have created and I am already creating it, giving the spirit its true value above the flesh, the world, and above the infernal angels whom I expel because I can do everything. That is why I say that those who are not with Me are against Me, and those who do not gather with Me, scatter. Because I am He Who I am. And he who does not believe that, which was already prophesied, sins against the Holy Spirit, Whose Word was announced by the prophets, and it is neither false nor wrong, and must be believed without resistance.

And I tell you: men will be forgiven everything, all their sins and their blasphemy. Because God knows that man is not only spirit, but also flesh and his flesh, when tempted, is subject to sudden weakness. But blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. He who has spoken against the Son of Man will still be forgiven, because the weight of the flesh enveloping My Person and the man who speaks against Me, can still mislead. But he who has spoken against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this or in future life, because the Truth is what it is: clear, holy, undeniable and manifested to the spirit in such a way that it cannot mislead. Only those who err deliberately want to err. To deny the Truth spoken by the Holy Spirit is to deny the Word of God and the Love given by that Word for the sake of men. And the sin against Love is not forgiven. (cf. Vol. 4, chs. 419, 485)

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Final unrepentance. Forgiveness would include an intention to say sorry when you can and also if you would have had the intention to say sorry if ignorant of the fact that you could, God being the Alpha and Omega.

The Holy Spirit as the Third Person is the Spirit of God and it is He who is the substance of those very communal binds of love and therefore if love is offered for eternity as a place in Heaven and we instead choose to remain as a worldly creature with all our sins and vices then we have quite literally opposed the Holy Spirit and have chosen for ourselves the other place to spend our days in eternity…

It is not so much that God cannot forgive any blasphemy, but rather that love is relational, and therefore if forgiveness is handed out to someone and yet they in return spurn that act of graciousness by closing that outreached hand then the forgiveness offered has not been accepted and God does not force our will. Another way of understanding the matter, would be to say that forgiveness cannot be granted when not accepted.

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I think you’ve explained the idea very well, thank you for sharing that. :slight_smile:

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You are very welcome. And kind of you to say.

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I assume if you break Galatians 5:22-23

Or to not get too extreme, if you try not to follow this in your heart that is.

22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

I think the movie character “Castor Troy” from Face/Off 1997 movie. Would be, perfect example on how not to act like basically. But its the idea of removing primitive mental corruptive sin. And live a life where you find freedom in Loyalty to God and that develops this faith. A faith of denying yourself, for the sake of God and others.

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