And Hells come back to haunt me

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Christ was the one who said all sins can be forgiven except one: blasphemy against the Holy Spirit (known as the unpardonable sin) which is a rejection through a person's free will of the salvation message and it takes affect the moment a person dies, that person's is said to be cut off and without remedy.

I know that this is a common interpretation of the concept of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, but I really don't think that it's what the author (or Jesus, if the words were originally his, which seems fairly likely) had in mind. The Greek term blasphameo is a combination of two terms that literally translates to "injurious speech". In the time period when the New Testament was written, it didn't refer exclusively to religiously offensive language. It was also used in a way that could be translated to our word "slander".

In context, the phrase probably means slander against God. The concepts of a Holy Spirit in the Christian sense or of the Divinity of Christ were likely alien to the author, and so it's likely that the statement meant that any deliberate and knowing blasphemy would be unforgivable.

Most Christian denominations accept that the only unforgivable sin is final impenitence (it's pretty much a logical requirement for the oldest and most historically grounded Christian traditions, like Catholicism and Eastern/Oriental Orthodox, where the ability to forgive all sins is believed to be vested in the Church). If final impenitence is the only unforgivable sin, then logically a sin mentioned as unforgivable in the Bible must be that, but the text doesn't support that interpretation.

The only unpardonable sin today is that of continued unbelief. There is no pardon for a person who dies in unbelief.