hate the sin, love the sinner

[Drich]

God simply identifies sin, which is why He and people who follow Him CAN Indeed separate sin from sinner.

That said there are only two, Blaspheme of the Holy Spirit (which you can not come back from) and not forgiving others as you have been forgiven (which you can amend by learning to forgive) These top His list.

Do you care to expound upon the blasphemy bit? I've never gotten a clear answer from any Christian theist as to what that entails, exactly.

This is an easy one..


first we start with a defination.
In Mark 3 the word is:
βλασφημέω blasphēméō, blas-fay-meh'-o; from G989; to vilify; specially, to speak impiously:—(speak) blaspheme(-er, -mously, -my), defame, rail on, revile, speak evil.

In the beginning of Mark 3:20 forward, The pharisees witnessed a miracle of the Holy Spirit They knew it to be a work of God, but rather than admit God was working in a way not familiar to them they attributed this witnessed miracle to satan.


Now, even in the context of the passage Christ who warns of this sin does not say the Pharisees actually committed this sin. But the assumption is that they did commit this sin as per the definition of the word blasphemeo. If this exegetical assumption is what one is working from, then to blaspheme the Spirit, is to write off, or to cast aside his work and ascribe it to satan.

So then how does this translate to us in modern times and disciples of Christ are long gone and we no longer see demons being cast out?

We look to the final lasting legacy of the Holy Spirit still active today. In that the Holy Spirit calls us to salvation, the Holy Spirit calls us to repentance. And, since we have been offered this oppertunity to repent as long as we live, to blaspheme the Spirit is to live a life that defies this call to repentance, this call to God. Because ultimatly the Spirit is the intercessor/ambassador of the Father. The Spirit's words are the words of the Father, to defame the Spirit is to defame the personal words the Father uses to reach out to you.