Is it the unpardonable sin

[Scared]

Let me preface this by saying I was a young child when this happened and I didn't know the Holy Ghost was the same as The Holy Spirit. And I also didn't know who the Holy Ghost was or even that he is a being. Where I'm from there is a saying that refers to believers acting wild, shaking, falling out and such and it is called "catching the Holy Ghost." I thought that meant being overwhelmed by a "feeling of holiness" (human derived) , not a Member of the Trinity influencing a person. In the 7th or 8th grade I made a joke about "catching the Holy Ghost" and I was using curse words. Is it blasphemy if I didn't mean to refer to the Holy Spirit? When I said "catching the [i used an expletive] Holy Ghost" I thought I was speaking about human actions not something divinely inspired. To better explain I thought the phrase simply referred to a state of being people can get in when they're in a holy place. My intention wasn't to be irreverent to the actual Holy Spirit I was talking about (in my understandinf at the time) human feelings. I couldn't have been talking about someone I didn't know about because intentions matter, right? Am I still saved or did I commit the unpardonable sin? Please be honest with me.

 

[TheDeafMan]

The only sin that is unpardonable is the rejection of Christ. Anything else is covered by the blood of Jesus. If you have truly accepted Jesus as your savior, then all of your sins are covered. All of them.

 

[Scared]

The only sin that is unpardonable is the rejection of Christ. Anything else is covered by the blood of Jesus. If you have truly accepted Jesus as your savior, then all of your sins are covered. All of them.

Is it blasphemy of the Holy Spirit if I didn't intend to refer to the Holy Spirit? I was referring to a state of being, basically I mispoke.

 

[Who Me]

was a young child when this happened and I didn't know the Holy Ghost was the same as The Holy Spirit.

As a young child we're you a Christian?
A non christian cannot commit the unpardonable sin as they are already condemned, read John 3 : 16-18.
Only a Christian can do that. It is only unpardonable if you have not repented of it.

Do you have a minister or youth leader you can talk to?

Can I suggest two things.
1/ memorise 1john1:9
2/ when you feel you committed dreadful sins in your past, that you turn to God and thank and praise him for his forgiveness of All your sins.
3/ trust God when he says your sins are forgiven.

 

[Anaphora]

First Corinthians chapter 2:10 to 2:16. Many people have spirit of stupor. Very few people have holy spirit.
Romans chapter 8. . God's Election have holy spirit. They are predestined, and chosen before foundation of the world.
Isaiah chapter 6 will further document, some people have spirit of stupor.
Only Gods Elect can commit the unpardonable sin.

 

[Tenchi]

My intention wasn't to be irreverent to the actual Holy Spirit I was talking about (in my understandinf at the time) human feelings. I couldn't have been talking about someone I didn't know about because intentions matter, right? Am I still saved or did I commit the unpardonable sin? Please be honest with me.

As many do, you have not understood the "unforgiveable sin" within the context where it is mentioned. The scribes and Pharisees had said that the power of the Holy Spirit was demonic power. Why did they say this? Well, "out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks." The scribes and Pharisees hated Christ. But in hating him, they cut themselves off from the only route to salvation and God's forgiveness. And they were so set in their hatred of Christ, they had no pangs of conscience in declaring his miraculous deeds, done in the power of the Holy Spirit, demonic acts. So deep in their hatred of Christ were they settled, it bothered them not at all to make such an vile assertion.

The scribes and Pharisees, then, were guilty of the unforgiveable sin because of the condition of their hearts toward Christ, not because they said certain words, like some forbidden spell, in a particular order. Do you hate Christ? Are you so far gone in your hatred of him that it doesn't bother you at all to think he was really acting on behalf of the devil? If not, you aren't guilty of the "unpardonable sin."

 

[jeremiah1five]

Let me preface this by saying I was a young child when this happened and I didn't know the Holy Ghost was the same as The Holy Spirit. And I also didn't know who the Holy Ghost was or even that he is a being. Where I'm from there is a saying that refers to believers acting wild, shaking, falling out and such and it is called "catching the Holy Ghost." I thought that meant being overwhelmed by a "feeling of holiness" (human derived) , not a Member of the Trinity influencing a person. In the 7th or 8th grade I made a joke about "catching the Holy Ghost" and I was using curse words. Is it blasphemy if I didn't mean to refer to the Holy Spirit? When I said "catching the [i used an expletive] Holy Ghost" I thought I was speaking about human actions not something divinely inspired. To better explain I thought the phrase simply referred to a state of being people can get in when they're in a holy place. My intention wasn't to be irreverent to the actual Holy Spirit I was talking about (in my understandinf at the time) human feelings. I couldn't have been talking about someone I didn't know about because intentions matter, right? Am I still saved or did I commit the unpardonable sin? Please be honest with me.

Are you born again?
Because if you have been born again and the Holy Spirit resides in you then don't worry about committing that sin. It's impossible for a true born-again believer to commit this sin.

 

[TheDeafMan]

I want to expand on what I wrote before. Rejecting Jesus is 'an' unpardonable sin, it is, however, not 'the' unpardonable sin written in Matthew. In the Matthew event, Jesus had healed a mute man by casting out a demon after his disciples were unable to do so. Casting out a demon from someone who was unable to speak was, in Jewish rabbinic tradition, a clear sign of God. That is, only God could do such a thing. Why? Again, in rabbinic tradition, in order to cast out a demon, a person had to address that demon by name, so, if a person was mute, they would be unable to utter anything thus the casting out could not happen. Only by the power of God could such a thing happen, so when Jesus did it, it was a clear, unmistakable indicator that he was, in fact, God or the Messiah. When the Jewish leaders accused him of doing it by the power of Satan, they were saying (knowingly) that the power that Jesus possessed, the Holy Spirit, was not God, but rather Satan. They were denying Jesus' claim to divinity to his face while calling the Holy Spirit 'satanic'.

To your question about whether you have committed the unpardonable sin. The answer is NO. You have not and no one today can. That sin in Matthews gospel was a one time event, not repeatable today. I'm not saying that people
can't deny Jesus, that happens all the time. But, the event in Matthew was done in full knowledge of the truth yet denying it and, specifically, denying it to Jesus' face. Since Jesus is not physically among us, that particular sin cannot happen today. Again, it was a one time event, never occurring again. Not to you, not to anyone. Today, in the age of grace, any sin can be forgiven by the blood of Jesus.