Also, because our Father tells us that we can push Him too far where He grows weary with our struggling and turns away, but He doesn't call our long denial "unpardonable." Believe me, I was slooo…w in finally "getting it" and I'm ashamed to admit how long it took.
Not sure I agree with the explanation of "the unpardonable sin." "Blasphemy" is "speaking out" (with malice, lies, slander?) against a commonly accepted (truth, or God?) belief of a people. A single act. I know I've been slow to REALLY accept the truth in my bones and it's hard to imagine all those blunders "adding up" to an "act of speaking out against," but I wouldn't discount this completely. It seems to me however, that to blaspheme the Holy Spirit would require something more specific, like in rituals and such where the person knew what they were doing, rather than just a "collection" of blunders.
I asked the question at the 56:56 mark. I used the prophecies fulfilled by Jesus as my final piece of evidence that I could no longer ignore. But something I couldn’t talk about on the air as I only had a few seconds to ask my question was asking two questions of non believers: first one is between 0-100%, what level of belief in the Bible do you have? I ask this cause I don’t expect 100% but if they say 0%, well we know the historical evidence is strong and proven by most historical scholars, including non believers. So 0% can’t be an option so if the evidence for a lot of historical events that happened in the Bible is accurate, why is the evidence for Jesus inaccurate? 300+ prophecies fulfilled, thousands of miracles written down by eyewitnesses, his death, resurrection and assention also recorded, how can I deny the existence of God? Second question I like to ask is do we think information we learned from the 70s, 80s, 90s and 2000s about the medical industry, from science and technology, and history is something we should believe in no matter what? No evidence since then could change our minds? I suspect not. Is this your approach that’s being taken with theology? I feel like a lot of non believers don’t believe is from something that happened a long time ago or were confused and never got answers so they gave up. If we won’t take that approach with medical, science technology and history, why take that approach with God and the Bible??? Thanks again for taking my call!!!
Also, because our Father tells us that we can push Him too far where He grows weary with our struggling and turns away, but He doesn't call our long denial "unpardonable." Believe me, I was slooo…w in finally "getting it" and I'm ashamed to admit how long it took.
Amazing!
Not sure I agree with the explanation of "the unpardonable sin." "Blasphemy" is "speaking out" (with malice, lies, slander?) against a commonly accepted (truth, or God?) belief of a people. A single act. I know I've been slow to REALLY accept the truth in my bones and it's hard to imagine all those blunders "adding up" to an "act of speaking out against," but I wouldn't discount this completely. It seems to me however, that to blaspheme the Holy Spirit would require something more specific, like in rituals and such where the person knew what they were doing, rather than just a "collection" of blunders.
My 2 small dogs and one cat are like my kids. But I won't bring them to church.0
I asked the question at the 56:56 mark. I used the prophecies fulfilled by Jesus as my final piece of evidence that I could no longer ignore. But something I couldn’t talk about on the air as I only had a few seconds to ask my question was asking two questions of non believers: first one is between 0-100%, what level of belief in the Bible do you have? I ask this cause I don’t expect 100% but if they say 0%, well we know the historical evidence is strong and proven by most historical scholars, including non believers. So 0% can’t be an option so if the evidence for a lot of historical events that happened in the Bible is accurate, why is the evidence for Jesus inaccurate? 300+ prophecies fulfilled, thousands of miracles written down by eyewitnesses, his death, resurrection and assention also recorded, how can I deny the existence of God? Second question I like to ask is do we think information we learned from the 70s, 80s, 90s and 2000s about the medical industry, from science and technology, and history is something we should believe in no matter what? No evidence since then could change our minds? I suspect not. Is this your approach that’s being taken with theology? I feel like a lot of non believers don’t believe is from something that happened a long time ago or were confused and never got answers so they gave up. If we won’t take that approach with medical, science technology and history, why take that approach with God and the Bible??? Thanks again for taking my call!!!