So, I say to you, all kinds of sin and blasphemy against men will be forgiven, but blasphemy against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.
The Jews answered Him, saying, We do not stone you for a good work; but for blasphemy and because you, being a man, make yourself God.
And we could go by no high road, thoroughfare, or byway, either by day or by night; for everywhere and always there was a constant cry that any one who did not utter words of blasphemy must be dragged off and burnt.
Think ye, that here, in the Temple of Apollo, the priestess of an insulted God can give shelter to blasphemy flying from the arms of justice?
In addition to this there were many classes of cases in which torture was employed by Rome to extort confession and in which it was forbidden in Spain--those involving mere presumption of heresy, such as solicitation, sorcery, blasphemy etc.
I believe, from conviction, having considered the subject, and got all the information I could connected with it, that the book which is called the revealed will of God, is a blasphemy of that God.
I got a famous letter on blasphemy into the Cheltenham Free Press, of February 29th, signed 'Christian'.
The Chief Justice: I heard you say that belief in the Scriptures was blasphemy to God.
Because he addeth blasphemy upon his sins, let him be tied fast in the mean time amongst us: and then let him provoke God to judgment with his speeches.
In the face of these scriptures, will anyone who believes in the Bible say that it is blasphemy to speak of God as being possessed of a bodily form?
Not the mockery of ages, not the lampooning of the schoolmen, not the derision of the multitude, not the blasphemy of the world, can affect it; it will always remain true.
Jesus, if they were called Gods unto whom the word of God came, why should it be thought blasphemy that I should say I am the Son of God?
Let me refer you to the answer of the Savior to the Jews when accused of blasphemybecause he called himself the Son of God.
And yet we are told that it is blasphemy to speak of God as being in human form--that it is "heathenism.
Think and tremble, how near this deriding or opposing the work of the Holy Ghost, doth come to the unpardonable blasphemy against him.
There is not one melancholy person of a multitude, but is violently assaulted with temptations to blasphemy and unbelief, when they have but half the use of reason and no composedness of mind to debate such controversies with the devil.
If the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost be the unpardonable sin, then all sin against the Holy Ghost must needs have a special aggravation by being such.
And it is words of blasphemy against the Holy Ghost, which are the unpardonable sin.
This question may be thought blasphemous: but I cannot see wherein the blasphemy consists; for I cannot help making the inquiry, in my own understanding, and as my object is to gain instruction, I put the inquiry on paper.
Or, if by the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost, we understand sin committed through certain malice, this means either that the blasphemy itself against the Holy Ghost is unpardonable, i.
But there are sins more grievous than these, such as blasphemy against God, and the sin against the Holy Ghost.
Now two of these reasons imply a blasphemy against God.
The word or blasphemyspoken against the Holy Ghost is final impenitence, as Augustine states (De Verb.
Your merchant, if he was a man of substance, forgot his merchandise, swore that chaffering was more indelicate than blasphemy and curled his beard after the new fashion, and became a courtier.
The vulture lags behind, the Gorgones, Revealed or ambushed in the thunder clouds, Would tear from heaven these audacities Of deathless spirit, shatter them and spill The blasphemy of genius from the sky.
To compare Hania with an official seemed such blasphemy before my world of imagining that I could not withhold a cry of indignation.
And that blasphemy pained me the more since it came from the lips of my father.
Reason and evidence all point one way; and add this to the many other acts which stamp Brigham Young as a murderer of the deepest dye,--adding to the guilt of homicide that of blasphemy and hypocrisy.
Christ, is theblasphemy against the Holy Ghost, which shall not be forgiven in the world nor out of the world.
No falsehood staggers him, noblasphemy shocks him.
And to add to the blasphemy of the scheme, it is all done in the name of the Lord.
Nowhere do I remember to have seen so many appeals and warnings against blasphemy and desecration as are displayed in the church of Paray.
Probably if one lied to God in his prayers, that was blasphemy against the Holy Ghost--one form of it.
Even a Caiaphas was entitled to be told, if it were so, that He meant no blasphemy and was not claiming anything too high for a reverent Israelite, when He claimed to be the Son of God.
That would be as much a blasphemy as trusting any other man.
He heard that cry of calm faith which, when he heard it, would sound to him as horrible blasphemy from Stephen's dying lips.
You have made a religion of it; and it is thought to be blasphemy for a man to stand up and say--'It is idolatry!
To say, that Jesus could not or would not go up to the Paralytick, I would not, for Fear of an Imputation of Blasphemy against me.
If Blasphemyis a just Pretence for the Prosecution of me, the Clergy, upon Occasion, can urge the same Crime against them.
The Clergy are forewarn'd of my Design to publish such a Discourse; and this is the secret Reason, whatever openly they may pretend, of their Accusations against me for Blasphemy and Infidelity.
Afraid of my own heart, my unfathomed joy, A blasphemy against my father's grief, My people's agony!
Afraid of my own heart, my unfathomed joy, A blasphemy against my father's grief, My people's agony.
Is not such an alliance a greater blasphemy than if two beings, with the loftiest feelings, give themselves to each other for a life of free love and voluntary faithfulness?
And would it be blasphemy if two such beings sanctioned their alliance before the world by a marriage, if they made that which is hallowed in itself saved in the eyes of society?
Whoever dies in mortal sin, bears with him a will that detests the Divine justice with regard to a certain thing, and in this respect there can be blasphemy in him.
Therefore blasphemy and denial of the faith are more grievous sins than idolatry.
I answer that, The word blasphemy seems to denote the disparagement of some surpassing goodness, especially that of God.
Even as God is praised in His saints, in so far as praise is given to the works which God does in His saints, so does blasphemy against the saints, redound, as a consequence, against God.
Now the Jews began by speaking blasphemy against the Son of Man, when they said (Matt.
If it is in thought only, it is blasphemy of the heart, whereas if it betrays itself outwardly in speech it is blasphemy of the tongue.
The blasphemy into which a man breaks out deliberately proceeds from pride, whereby a man lifts himself up against God: since, according to Ecclus.
Therefore blasphemy is not always opposed to the confession of faith.
On the other hand, if we compare them in respect of the harm wrought by them, murder is the graver sin, for murder does more harm to one's neighbor, than blasphemy does to God.
The same applies, if the sin against the Holy Ghost be taken literally for blasphemy against the Holy Ghost.
But, seemingly, blasphemyis not contrary to any of them.
