Expert: Dean Gade - 10/7/2005

Question
Mark 3: 29
But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation.
Can you please explain this to me ?  

Answer
Our God is a God of forgiveness.  He desires that all should be with Him in eternity and has fulfilled justice and righteousness by having His Son die in our place to redeem us to Him.

He is always ready to forgive.

The "sin against the Holy Spirit" is to believe and confess that the Holy Spirit is not of God or has no power of God to forgive and redeem.   But salvation comes to people only by the power of the Holy Spirit working in our hearts.  If the Spirit is denied by a person, forgiveness cannot be worked in that person.   THEY DO NOT HAVE FORGIVENESS even though God desire to give it to them.

It is difficult to impossible to understand the WORD  of God in its power.  It is by this word that God created the world.  It is by this word that we are declared just through the atonement of our sins by Jesus Christ.  This word of our redemption is called the "gospel"  (In the Bible the word is euangellion - good message...and our word, gospel, comes from old english "good spell" meaning good message.  St Paul says of this:

Rom 1:16-17

16 I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. 17 For in the gospel a righteousness from God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: "The righteous will live by faith."   
(from New International Version)

When this is rejected, the effect is cast aside and has no power in the one rejecting it.  To be saved, they would have  to be born again of the Spirit of God.