(September 28, 2012 at 2:48 pm)Tea Earl Grey Hot Wrote: I think I figured out a way to prevent Christians from trying to proselytize us! Just commit the "unpardonable" sin and you're now a hopeless cause to them.
Mark 3:28-29
Quote:28 "Truly, I say to you, all sins will be forgiven the sons of men, and whatever blasphemies they utter; 29 but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin"
It's quite simple. Just say something insulting to the Holy Spirit. Be creative!
You can also put signs out on your door to stop annoying door to door missionaries. "NOTICE: RESIDENT HAS ALREADY BLASPHEMED HOLY SPIRIT."
Here's mine...
Hey Holy Spirit, one can get more knowledge and guidance from a rock than from you!
Maybe, but like with every other statement in the Bible there is also a contradiction, meaning in other places it is stated that all sins can be forgiven:
And by him all that believe are justified from all things. Acts 13:39
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:9
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
