Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 07006. Few passages have caused more private agony than the one about the unforgivable sin, and I have lost count of the number of believers who have come to me convinced that they have committed it. They are almost always the last people on earth who could have done so, and I want to…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 4155. This is one of the genuinely puzzling sayings of Jesus, and blasphemy against the Spirit seems at first to be ranked as worse than blasphemy against the Son himself. ‘Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven’ (Matthew…
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 4152. Few questions arrive in a pastor’s study carrying more fear than this one, and the unforgivable sin has tormented more tender consciences than almost any other phrase in the Bible. People lie awake convinced they have crossed a line from which there is no coming back. So I want to handle this with…