• Flax@feddit.uk
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    4 days ago

    That’s not what the blaspheming of the Holy Spirit is at all.

    • III@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      Oh, it isn’t? What’s your definition if not Merriam-Webster’s? Or do we look to the holy spirit for the definition? Because in my understanding that thing can’t even spell much less string together a coherent definition of what it means to blaspheme.

      • burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de
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        3 days ago

        Traditionally, blaspheming the holy spirit is taken as denying the existence thereof. As soon as you believe in it and convert to christianity, the sin no longer exists and is ‘forgiven.’ The reason it is “unforgiveable” is because you literally cannot ask for forgiveness and to “receive christ in your heart” without believing in it.