Yeah, that was how I always saw it. As I understood it, the Pharisees saw the miracles Jesus was performing and understood (as the common folk did) that it had to be something from god, but since they didn't like the version of Jesus that was granted them (telling them to be nice to others and turn the other cheek, instead of getting on his magic horse and slaughtering the infidels) they slandered him by saying he was working with the devil instead of god. By purposely slandering his work in order to get people to turn away, they were acting just like the devil in the garden of Eden, and that was unforgivable in god's eyes.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
