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Originally Posted by mentor
Why? and says who? I imagine a god of perfect love would have the capacity and desire to forgive his children. After all, we aren't talking about murder here, just children saying something mean about their parent(s). What parent has not said something mean to their parents, such as "I hate you!" or "I wish you were dead!" And us frail human parents forgive them... Why wouldn't God? Perhaps because parents have always used God as the ultimate "bad cop" in disputes with children. An extension of what we see parents do everyday: "If daddy saw you do that he would tan your hide, so you had better behave yourself for me, or I'll tell daddy when he gets home!" It becomes: "If you don't behave for me, God will find out and you will burn in hell forever..."
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That whole "Blaspheme the Holy Spirit" thing is the one passage that I
really have a problem with in the teachings ascribed to Jesus. It isn't JUST that it seems unreasonable for a God to threaten never to forgive someone over blasphemy, but that he never once tells anyone what this holy spirit thing is. As such, nobody knows...as can be seen by the miriad definitions it's had through history. So you spend all your life going, "Oh no, is that blaspheming the Holy Spirit if I say that??"
It sets up a fear based upon an obscurity and thus renders the person that believes it forever in fear of being permanently brandished "unsavable". Quite frankly, that statement by Christ is probably the single most immoral thing I've ever heard of anyone saying.