![]() The more attention you pay to them- the harder you try not to think of them, and the more significance you give them- the more you will think them. They are not even sins, since they're the result of bad wiring in your brain, and don't come from your heart. The very act of trying not to think a thought ensures that you WILL think it. How did you do? You couldn't think of anything but purple bears, could you? That's because God created our minds to retain information, not to exclude it. Stop TRYING to get rid of them! Close your eyes and for the next sixty seconds think of anything you want- except purple bears. Conversely, if you have committed it, you will not be willing to come to Him. Clearly, then, if you can come to Him, you have not committed this sin. Jesus says quite clearly that He will never turn away ANYONE who comes to Him. The unpardonable sin is not unpardonable because God is unwilling to forgive it, but because the person who has committed it is unwilling to be forgiven. It's blocking the Holy Spirit's ability to work in our hearts by regarding His work as evil, and doing so to the point where the heart becomes completely calloused against His influence. Clearly the unpardonable sin is not ordinary blasphemy, as in saying something derogatory about God. But THE blasphemy against the Holy Spirit will not be. Remember, it's the Holy Spirit who works repentance in us!Īs I pointed out above, Jesus explicitly says that ALL blasphemies will be forgiven. And if you recall, Hebrews 6 explains why the unpardonable sin is unpardonable: the person who has committed it cannot be restored to repentance. If you are upset about something you've done, you've repented. If its OCD, it's not a sin if it's a sin, it's forgiven- and if you hate the thought, that is proof that you have not committed the unpardonable sin.Īny way you look at it, if you're worried about having committed the Unforgivable Sin, you have no reason to be. Then, whatever else may happen, you may be certain, first, that you have not committed the unpardonable sin and secondly, that you are forgiven. Even if a thought you hate or that you wish you hadn't had is sinful, no matter what the origin, all you have to do is to accept Jesus's forgiveness and you have nothing to be afraid of. That does not change the fact that if we hate the thought, it either a) is an OCD thought, in which case it is not even a sin or b) since we hate and fear the thought, we have repented, cannot have committed the unpardonable sin, and are forgiven. And it is in the nature of OCD that if we fear that "pop up" thoughts come from us, it will "feel" to us like they do. In any event, "pop up" thoughts are not sins of any kind, which means that regardless of their content, they do not need forgiveness. If you recall, Hebrews makes that very point: a person who has committed the unforgivable sin cannot be restored to repentance.ĥ. ![]() It follows from that that a person who wants to be forgiven cannot have committed the unpardonable sin. Since Jesus says categorically that He will never, under any circumstances (the Greek says mh ouk, an intensifier that means "No way, Jose!") cast out anyone who comes to Him, it is obvious that nothing that does not prevent a person from wanting to come to Jesus can be the unforgivable sin.Ĥ. ![]() It is obvious from this that since THE blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is not included in "ALL blasphemies," it must be something very different from merely saying something nasty about God (again, thinking something nasty about God, if it is not uttered out loud, cannot be blasphemy in the first place). Jesus says in the very statement in which He speaks of the Unpardonable Sin that ALL blasphemies will be forgiven, whatever their content- but that THE blasphemy against the Holy Spirit will not be. Even if the thoughts somehow could be blasphemy.Ģ. ![]() No matter how nasty a thought may be, thoughts cannot be blasphemy unless they are uttered. "Blasphemous thoughts" are thoughts that would be blasphemy if uttered. Blasphemy, by its very definition, must be spoken out Since people in the Group found this helpful in dealing with the Unforgivable Sin, I thought I'd post it here.ġ. ![]()
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