Hello. Jesus often talked about sin, but he never said what sin is. This may have been because he was speaking to Jewish people in the 1st Century, and those Jewish people knew what sin was: it was disobedience to the Old Testament law – the “law of Moses”, as Jesus usually called it. So, […]
The unforgiveable sin – slandering the Holy Spirit.
Hello The idea that there is such a thing as an unforgiveable sin is a disturbing element in Jesus’ teaching. But Matthew, Mark and Luke all give accounts of Jesus saying that slandering the Holy Spirit is an unforgiveable sin. (The 1st Century Greek word translated as “blasphemy” in some modern English translations means to […]