blasphemy against the Holy Spirit
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blasphemy · calling the Holy Spirit a creature · speak against the Holy Spirit · the unforgivable sin
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Letters
The doctrine that denying the Holy Spirit's divine nature is a grave, anathematized error.
whether we refuse communion to those who do not accept the faith of Nicaea, and whether we cannot endure to share fellowship with those who have the audacity to call the Holy Spirit a creature.
it is necessary, against those who do not spare themselves, nor foresee the inescapable threat which our Lord held out against those who blaspheme against the Holy Spirit, to set forth this — that they must anathematize those who call the Holy Spirit a creature, and those who so think, and those who do not confess that it is holy by nature, as the Father is holy by nature and the Son is holy by na …
But those who call the Holy Spirit a creature we pity, as falling, by such a word, into the unforgivable sin of the blasphemy against Him.
Adversus Marcionem
The unforgivable sin of speaking against the Holy Spirit, contrasted with forgivable offenses against the Son of man.
"He who shall speak against the Son of man, it shall be remitted to him, but he who shall speak against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be remitted to him.