From context, it looks like it's something to do with seeing someone fighting against evil and saying that that fight against evil is itself evil. Kind of like when someone who is fighting for civil liberties and the Constitution is called un-American and an ally of the terrorists, only on a cosmic scale. "Control and domination of the Life Force" may be near it, or maybe denial of the goodness of life. Or denial of the goodness of what you don't understand.
On those occasions when I've heard that verse preached about, the preachers have said that if anyone is concerned with spiritual things or is worried that they might have committed the unforgivable sin, they haven't committed it. It's not so much that a person who has committed it couldn't be forgiven if they wanted to be, but that the person doesn't want to be forgiven. They've denied the goodness of the only being that offers that forgiveness.
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Date: 2007-01-05 08:31 pm (UTC)From context, it looks like it's something to do with seeing someone fighting against evil and saying that that fight against evil is itself evil. Kind of like when someone who is fighting for civil liberties and the Constitution is called un-American and an ally of the terrorists, only on a cosmic scale. "Control and domination of the Life Force" may be near it, or maybe denial of the goodness of life. Or denial of the goodness of what you don't understand.
On those occasions when I've heard that verse preached about, the preachers have said that if anyone is concerned with spiritual things or is worried that they might have committed the unforgivable sin, they haven't committed it. It's not so much that a person who has committed it couldn't be forgiven if they wanted to be, but that the person doesn't want to be forgiven. They've denied the goodness of the only being that offers that forgiveness.