Expert: Marco - 4/11/2007

Question
Hi there. Just wanted to say i always thought the unforgivable sin was despair. That is not having enough faith to believe God is so good and loves us so much that he will forgive us the most evil of sin if we are truely sorry. This is a sin against The Holy Spirit. This sin causes us to believe that not even God can forgive, which is of course not true. Your view please. Thanks

Answer
Dear Sarah,

Jesus did many powerful miracles to prove that He was the Messiah; neverthless many jews refused to believe in Him, refused to believe that His miracles were done with the power of the Holy Spirit and accused Him to derive the power to do miracles from satan. This is the unforgivable sin. This sin is unforgivable because if a person who has seen Jesus to do such powerful miracles, refuses to believe in Him, there is nothing that can convince him to believe in Jesus.
So, I think that such sin is unforgivable  because it represents a final, absolute and irrevocable rebellion against God.
God loves us infinitely and He desires to lead each of us to the eternal life  and to the true happiness. But God is perfectly Holy and Good; God cannot tolerate evil because evil is uncompatible with His good and holy nature.
So, we cannot go to heaven as long as we are not completely purified from our sins and sanctified.
Our sanctifcation is necessary for us to go to heaven.
God desires to sanctify us, but He has given us a free-will, so God needs our consent in order to purify and sanctify us. God respects our choices and therefore God cannot santify those who do not want to be sanctified and purified, those who do not want to stop sinning, those who do not want to live a holy life.
These are those who go to hell.


I hope this may help,

Your brother in Christ,

Marco
PS I think that faith cannot come only from logic, because to have faith in God means to trust and love God.
I think however that logics and science prove the existence of our soul and the existence of  God and that there are many rational arguments strongly supporting the christian faith.
The explanation of these aguments is rather long and Allexperts allows only to give short answers. You can find such arguments  in the following site

http://xoomer.alice.it/fedeescienza/englishnf.html

where  I analyse the incongruencies of the materialistic conception of the mind, on the basis of our present scientific knowledges about brain and matter.
This analysis points out how the laws of physics  prove that the   brain cannot generate consciousness, which existence implies  the presence in man of a unbiological/unmaterial element. The problem of consciousness is then strictly connected to the one of the existence of the soul and, consequently, the existence of God.
In the first article entitled “Mind and brain...” you can find a general discussion of the mind and brain problem from a scientific point of view.
In the second article entitled “Scientific contraddictions in materialism”
you  can find an explanation of the fundamental inconsistencies of  the  typical arguments used by materialists, such as the concept of emergent, macroscopic or holist property, complexity, information, etc.
In the section called “FAQ: answers to  visitors' questions” you can find the answer to many typical questions, such as "Are there any scientifically proved miracles?", "Does the existence of the universe imply the existence of God?", "Can science explain God?", "Can science establish which is the true religion?", "Can science explain consciousness in the future?", and many others.