How do you sin against the Holy Spirit? and why is it an unforgetable sin to sin against the Holy Spirit?
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In the day of the Prophet Samuel they rejected God & desired a King. When Jesus came, they rejected Him too. If you blaspheme the Holy Spirit, He is the only One left to get you into the Kingdom of God. You sin against Him by usuing His Name in vain(jokes or light talk)crediting His work to satan, or by your last rejection of Jesus Christ, before you die.
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This was a little hard to follow, though I think I understand what is going on. There is obviously some bitterness going on; otherwise they wouldn't feel the need to insult this person. Show them I Corinthians 13, where it gives the characteristics of Christian love. And Philippians 4, where it speaks of thinking on "whatever is true, pure, right..." You shouldn't have to say much, the Holy Spirit will. Much prayer for wisdom on your part is necessary. James 1:8 says if we ask for wisdom, God will give it to us. Lastly, don't accuse them. Just tell them kindly that you felt that it may not be loving of them to do these things. Hope it goes well!
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i beg to differ with the answerer, the only sin that cannot be forgiven is not accepting Christ, [contrary] the word itself says in mark 3;28 [plain and simple, then compare 1 john 1;9 except blaspheme against the holy spirit [only 1]\nacts 5;3-11\nmatt 12;31\nluke 12;10 woe unto the man/woman that does such a thing, that's why people need to be careful when answering or asking vain stuff concerning God, i would leae it alone if it is not positive, hell danger, besides 1 cor.2;16-13;12   eph 9;12 let this be your schooling, don't be offended because God said in james 1;5 and here we go, now ya know
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There's no such thing as a sin so big God can't forgive it.\nHe died on the cross for all sins, not just the little ones like lying or stealing or whatever.\nMurderers can receive forgiveness, too - you just have to be willing to ask for it!
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1.  Realize you are a sinner.\n\nRomans 3:23 "for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God"\n\nNO ONE is exempt from this.\n\n2.  Realize there is a penalty for sin\n\nRomans 6:23 "For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord"\n\nthis means the payment for just 1 sin is death...not physical death but spiritual death(the second death)\n\nRevelation 20:14 "and death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death."\n\n3.  Realize that Jesus paid your sin debt for you\n\nGod knew we couldn't make it to heaven on our own, that is why he sent his son Jesus to die for us\n\nJohn 3:16  "for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life"\n\nRomans 5:8 "God commendeth his love toward us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us"\n\nWhen Jesus died on that cross and rose again on the third day, everything that would ever have to be done to get a human to heaven was done.  Now it is up to us to Accept God's gift.  \n\nEternal life is a GIFT from God.  Suppose I came over to your house for your b-day and held out a present and said this is for you.  What would you have to do for it to be yours?  Accept it.  You could say no and never have possesion of the gift.  Also, if I said in order to keep this gift, you have to cut my grass for a year, it is no longer a gift.  It would become a wage or something you earned.  The same is true with eternal life, you can accept it and it belongs to you forever, or you can reject it and pay your own sin debt.\n\nSo how do you accept this gift?\n\n4.  Call on God to save you and repent of your sin\n\nLuke 13:3  "I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish."\n\nRomans 10:13  "for whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved"\n\nThere is no majic words for a sinners prayer.  Just tell God, from your heart, that:\n\nI realize I'm a sinner, and don't deserve to go to heaven.  But, I believe that you sent your son Jesus to die on the cross for my sins and rose again the third day.  I ask you to forgive me of my sins, and come into my heart and save me.  In Jesus name, Amen.\n\nAnd my friend if you pray something like that to God and truly mean it from your heart, then the bible says that God saved you...and God can't lie.
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God Hates Sin! God Loves the Sinner. He feels the same way about Fornication, and Adultry as He does about Homosexuality. The Bible states when we sin sexually, we sin against our own body. The Bible also states that Our Bodies are suppose to be the Temple of God. Read it for yourselve.  \n\n1 Corinthians 6:\n12 All things are lawful for me, but all things are not helpful. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. 13 Foods for the stomach and the stomach for foods, but God will destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14 And God both raised up the Lord and will also raise us up by His power. \n15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a harlot? Certainly not! 16 Or do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For “the two,” He says, “shall become one flesh.” 17 But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.\n18 Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. 19 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? 20 For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.\n\nAs for the behavior of some that call themselves Christians, I apologize. To be a true Believer We are called to Love one another and even commanded to Love our Enemies. As a Believers In Christ, we are to strive to show the Love of Jesus to the world. \n \n1 Corinthians 13:\n\n 1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned,but have not love, it profits me nothing.\n4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. \n8 Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part. 10 But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away. \n11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known. \n13 And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.\n\nMost of all, it is by the Grace of our Lord and Savior that we can even call ourselves Christians.\n\nEphesians 2:\n7 that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast.
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It's very comforting to say that "God loves us all so much that He will save us all"; or "He hates the sin, but loves the sinner"; or "God is love, and will not send anyone to hell."  \n     \n     I must admit, it is nice to think of God's love being so infinitely great that all will ultimately be saved.  Hell is a terrible place and I don't want anyone to go there.   But it does not matter what I think.  It matters what the Bible says.\n     God is love (1 John 4:8), but God also punishes the sinner and hates all who do iniquity.  God is not one sided.  He is not simply an infinitely loving God.  He is also infinitely just.  He must deal with sin.  He must punish the sinner.\n\n Well? Does God hate anyone?  The answer is yes.\n\n      Psalm 5:5, "The boastful shall not stand before Thine eyes; Thou dost hate all who do iniquity,\n\n      Psalm 11:5, "The Lord tests the righteous and the wicked, and the one who loves violence His soul hates."\n\n      Lev. 20:23, "Moreover, you shall not follow the customs of the nation which I shall drive out before you, for they did all these things, and therefore I have abhorred them."\n\n      Prov. 6:16-19, "There are six things which the Lord hates, yes, seven which are an abomination to Him: 17 Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, 18 A heart that devises wicked plans, feet that run rapidly to evil,\nA false witness who utters lies, and one who spreads strife among brothers.\n\n\n      Hosea 9:15, "All their evil is at Gilgal; indeed, I came to hate them there!  Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of My house! I will love them no more; All their princes are rebels." \n\n     Are these verses hard to read?  \nDo they make you feel uncomfortable?  \nDoes this sound harsh?\nMaybe you don't think your sins are that big a deal. God does.\nGod hates sin.  But, He does not punish sin.  He punishes the sinner.  Sin cannot be tied up and thrown into a fire.  It cannot be put in a box or glued to a stick.  \nIt is rebellion.  It is rebellion in the heart.  It is breaking God's Law.\n\nSo what standard will God use to decide our guilt or innocence?\nThe 10 Commandments. The bible says that they are like a mirror to show us what we are...horrible sinners to the core.\nWhen we see the standard; "Don't lie, Don't steal, Honor your parents, Love God with all of your heart soul mind and strength".\n\nGo to this website to take the test and find out how you'll do on the day of judgment...\n\nwww.needgod.com\n\nbob
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"Therefore, I say to you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven people, but blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven." (Mt 12:31) There are no limits to the mercy of God, but anyone who deliberately refuses to accept his mercy by repenting, rejects the forgiveness of his sins and the salvation offered by the Holy Spirit. Such hardness of heart can lead to final impenitence and eternal loss. \n\nBlasphemy is directly opposed to the second commandment. It consists in uttering against God - inwardly or outwardly - words of hatred, reproach, or defiance; in speaking ill of God; in failing in respect toward him in one's speech; in misusing God's name. St. James condemns those "who blaspheme that honorable name [of Jesus] by which you are called." (Jas 2:7) The prohibition of blasphemy extends to language against Christ's Church, the saints, and sacred things. It is also blasphemous to make use of God's name to cover up criminal practices, to reduce peoples to servitude, to torture persons or put them to death. The misuse of God's name to commit a crime can provoke others to repudiate religion. \n\nBlasphemy against the Spirit is the sin of attributing to Satan what is the work of the Spirit of God (See example at Mt 12:24-28) \n\nBlasphemy is contrary to the respect due God and his holy name. It is in itself a grave sin.
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Jesus mentions a sin that is unforgivable in Matt. 12:31-32 and calls it blasphemy of the Holy Spirit.\n\nNo. A believer cannot commit the unforgivable sin. How can someone who has been born again (John 3:7), made a new creation (2 Cor. 5:17), and received eternal life (John 10:27-28) actually commit the unforgivable sin? He cannot. Jesus Himself said that we have eternal life, not conditional life: "My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I give eternal life to them, and they shall never perish; and no one shall snatch them out of My hand." Besides, it says in 2 Cor. 5:17 that the Christian is a new creation in Christ. We are different, no longer slaves to the old nature (Rom. 6:14). We are regenerated by the Holy Spirit.\n     There is no biblical support for a believer committing this sin. It just hasn’t happened. Also, if you are worried that you may have committed the sin and can’t be forgiven, then don’t be concerned. If you are worrying about it, then you haven’t committed it. If you are worried about it, then that is a sign that you have not committed it. If you had, you wouldn’t be concerned.
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I think it has to do with the fact that we do not know what the Holy Spirit is, and we need to have some way of depicting it in icons and art.\n\nAs one person above me said, we can only understand God so far, after that it becomes a mystery.  The Holy Spirit is no exception.  We know what it is has done, but we do not know how it did them.  Therefore, we depect something that could have "naturally" done it as the Holy Spirit.\n\nI have found that things that cause something to happen (hand, finger) represent the Holy Spirit, and would lead me to believe that the Holy Spirit is the "work horse" of God.\n\nBut then water, fire, light are good choices because they do things.  They both destroy AND renew.  The Anointing also does the same thing. . . it destroyed the "old" me and instantly created the "new" me.\n\nThe Dove because it is a peacefull creature and was the one that brought back the olive branch to Noah (when the Raven just took off - is it any wonder that a group of Ravens are called an "unkindness"?).\n\nThe Holy Spirit is an opposing force.  It has the ability to both destroy life AND to renew life.\n\nI am not sure that this makes sense.  The Holy Spirit is hard to define.  Jesus is easy, because he became Man to die for our sins, God is easy because He created everything, but the Holy Spirit is.  I have no doubt that it is, because everything that we (Catholics) do is in the name of the Father, the Son AND the Holy Spirit.
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I've never understood the doctrine of "love the sinner but hate the sin."  When "the sin" is how you define a person (e.g., homosexual, liberal, feminist, believer-in-science, dancer-around-fires or whatever), then how can you claim to be loving the person while hating the very thing that -- in your eyes -- makes him who he is?\n\nIf christians define themselves by their belief, and if I fear and despise everything that their belief stands for, then I have to admit that I would not choose to spend time with christians if I could avoid it (with the exception of family and friends who don't care what I believe).
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According to the Bible, a follower of Christ does not sin and cannot sin:\n\n1 John 5:18  We know that anyone born of God does not continue to sin; the one who was born of God keeps him safe, and the evil one cannot harm him.\n\n1 John 3:9 No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God's seed remains in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God.\n\nRomans 8:8 Those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God.\n\nSo, if you're sinning, you are not born of God and you cannot please God. A Christian should never, ever sin. I mean, don't they have the Sacred Spook guiding them and telling them what to do? I guess they just don't pay attention, or the Spook is sleeping on the job--or they aren't really born of God.
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Blasphemy is the defamation of the name of God. These may include using sacred names as stress expletives without intention to pray or speak of sacred matters\n\nLuke 12:10, where blaspheming the Holy Spirit is spoken of as unforgivable.\n\nLeviticus 24:16 states that those who speak blasphemy "shall surely be put to death".\n\nMark 3:29 "But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin." \n\n"He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters. Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. And whoever says a word against the Son of man will be forgiven; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come." (Book of Matthew 12:30-32)\n\nThe first one and the last two, in Christian terms, would be to reject the Holy Spirit, who is you comforter, and the middle man, so to speak, between you and Jesus' plan for salvation.
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Hello, \n\nGod is very loving, why would God who is loving and forgiving send us to burn in hell? That goes against everything God stands for, doesn't it? But when we sin he wants to forgive us, in fact 2 Peter 3:8, 9 says, "However, let this one fact not be escaping YOUR notice, beloved ones, that one day is with Jehovah as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day. Jehovah is not slow respecting his promise, as some people consider slowness, but he is patient with YOU because he does not desire any to be destroyed but desires all to attain to repentance." (I welcome you all to look this up in your own personal copy of the Bible) \n\nSo you see, not only does He want us to repent, He is also patent with us. How loving! Don't you think? It goes with His personality in fact we have the scripture at 1 John 4:16 that say "God is Love" which is very straight forward. So again, this would go against God’s personality. But back to your original question on Hell, do you know that after you die you are conscious of NOTHING of at all. Ecclesiastes 9:5 tells us that "For the living know that they shall die; but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten." So if all bad people were going to be burning in hell, this would go against what the Bible says, and we know God can not lie. Titus 1:2 says "In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began." Then we have the scripture in 2 Timothy 3:16 that says all scriptures is inspired by God.\n\n\nPsalms 146:4 "His spirit goes out, he goes back to his ground; in that day his thought do perish." So again, here we see that our thoughts are gone. If we were going to burn in hell, don't you think it would make sense that we would be aware of it. \n\n\nEzekiel 18:4 "The soul that is sinning it itself will die." Notice that it doesn't say that it will burn in hell, just that it will die. And as we learned above in Ecclesiastes 9:5 the dead are aware of NOTHING. \n\n\nHell is nothing more than the common grave of mankind. Webster’s Dictionary says that the English word "hell" is equal to the Hebrew word Sheol and the Greek word Hades. In German Bibles Hoelle is the word used instead of "hell"; in Portuguese the word used is inferno, in Spanish infierno, and in French Enfer. The English translators of the Authorized Version, or King James Version, translated Sheol 31 times as "hell," 31 times as "grave," and 3 times as "pit." The Catholic Douay Version translated Sheol 64 times as "hell." In the Christian Greek Scriptures (commonly called the "New Testament"), the King James Version translated Hades as "hell" each of the 10 times it occurs.—Matthew 11:23; 16:18; Luke 10:15; 16:23; Acts 2:27, 31; Revelation 1:18; 6:8; 20:13, 14.\n\n\nThe question is: What kind of place is Sheol, or Hades? The fact that the King James Version translates the one Hebrew word Sheol three different ways shows that hell, grave and pit mean one and the same thing. And if hell means the common grave of mankind, it could not at the same time mean a place of fiery torture. Well, then, do Sheol and Hades mean the grave, or do they mean a place of torture?\n\nBefore answering this question, let us make clear that the Hebrew word Sheol and the Greek word Hades mean the same thing. This is shown by looking at Psalm 16:10 in the Hebrew Scriptures and Acts 2:31 in the Christian Greek Scriptures. Notice that in quoting from Psalm 16:10 where Sheol occurs, Acts 2:31 uses Hades. Notice, too, that Jesus Christ was in Hades, or hell. Are we to believe that God tormented Christ in a fiery hell? Of course not! Jesus was simply in his grave.\n\nWhen Jacob was mourning for his beloved son Joseph, who he thought had been killed, he said: "I shall go down mourning to my son into Sheo
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Blasphemy against the Spirit (Matthew 12:31) is the sin of attributing to Satan (Matthew 12:24) what is the work of the Spirit of God (Matthew 12:28).\n\nWith love in Christ.
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There is only one sin that will send you to hell and that is rejecting JESUS CHRIST as your personal savior. John 3:18-19\nIf someone truly excepts Christ as their savior they do not want to continue to live a life of sinfulness. 1 John 3:9-10 explains this quite adequately. Rather than wondering how much sin you can commit you should be wondering how to become more like CHRIST... you can not have a relationship with the world and with CHRIST  James 4:4 . Just simply acknowledging that GOD exists is not becoming a Christian. Even the devil believes in GOD in this manner and I assure you that he is not going to \nheaven. Look up Romans 10:9-10 for a study on how to be saved. I hope and pray that you truly submit to the LORD SHIP OF CHRIST in your life through a relationship with HIM.\n~GOD BLESS YOU AND LEAD YOU INTO ALL TRUTH~
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The bible says there is only one unforgiveable sin.  Blasphemy of the holy spirit....which is the utter rejection of God and His son.  If a person was a believer in Christ as his savior, his salvation was not negated that day if he chose to jump out the hundreth floor of the world trade center, rather than wait to be burned to death.  My heart still goes out to those people, thinking about them.\n\nHow you die does not determine your eternal fate.  Who you say Jesus is, determines your eternal fate.