(December 4, 2014 at 10:16 am)abaris Wrote: The unforgivable sin is about denying the holy spirit. But you just invited it to suck dick, so you didn't actually deny it.The priests that Jesus condemns in Mark 3 accused him of being an agent of the Devil and claiming that he exorcised demons with the authority of Satan. I don't think there's anything in the Bible that explicitly described the holy spirit as an individual, and the priests in that story do not confirm it as such. IMO, Jesus condemns them for calling god's gift of exorcism a demonic ruse.
"Holy spirit" could just be a euphemism for 'energy' or 'magic.' In which case you don't really blaspheme against the holy spirit, but against god. Which makes more sense, when you think about it. Blaspheming Jesus or god is forgivable, but not the holy spirit, which gets very few mentions and no concrete description in the entire Bible? That doesn't make much sense.
In any case, there is no god and there is no cosmic battery to power one. That should do for fulfilling the OP's qualifications.
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