Current Events > What do you think this Bible verse means? (about blasphemy and forgiveness)

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"Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters. And so I tell you, every kind of sin and slander can be forgiven, but blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come."

- Matthew 12:30-32

Thoughts?
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It means if you don't believe in the Holy Spirit then you're fucked. If you do believe in the Holy Spirit then you can rape someone and still be forgiven.
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People have been trying to figure that out for 2000 years.
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It is refering to those born of the seed of the serpent, that is the devil. An individual born of the seed of the serpent can not repent and be saved.

It means that unbelievers are worse than Hitler.

Thankfully most Christians have more sense than to believe the majority of nonsense their holy book espews.

The holy spirit is part of the trinity of the faith.
I thought it alluded to the religion because the followers were all blessed with the holy spirit. To walk as followers of Christ, you had to repent your sins to the God and be baptized, to be christened as a member of the church. Since most if not all members of the church were baptized, the only active part they had to do was repent their sins at church or in a regular confession. Yeah i am not sure though.

So, to me the bible verse means to not ever denounce the faith. To expand, i think the community as a whole (church hierarchy, church grounds, and its congregations) is considered to be within the Holy Spirit.
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HBOSS posted...

The holy spirit is part of the trinity of the faith.
I thought it alluded to the religion because the followers were all blessed with the holy spirit. To walk as followers of Christ, you had to repent your sins to the God and be baptised. Since most if not all members of the church were baptised, the only active part they had to do was repent their sins at church or in a regular confession. Yeah i am not sure though.

So, to me the bible verse means to not ever denounce the faith.

Repentance is for the unsaved sinner. Confession is for the saved sinner. Confession is done in the heart of man to God, it does not have to be done at a church.

^ah i see. Thanks for the clear up.
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The Trinity is never mentioned by Jesus.That is Christian doctrine. I don't think Jesus was referring to the three-Gods-in-one doctrine in that verse.
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