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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. THE WRITTEN WORD?CONTINUED. WE have said that though this is the dispensation of the Spirit, it is yet distinctively the Christian dispensation. This circumstance may throw a side-light upon one dark saying in the Christian writings, which relates to the unpardonable sin, the sin against the Holy Ghost. Christ taught that a word spoken against the Son -of Man would be forgiven, but that a word spoken against the Holy Ghost would not be forgiven; by which he probably meant that in his visible form there was so much that contravened the expectations of the people, that they might, under the mistaken guidance of their carnal feelings, speak against One who had claimed kingly position under a servant's form, but that in the course of events he would appeal not to the eye, but to the consciousness of men; and that when he came by this higher ministry, refusal of his appeal would place man in an unpardonable state. The vital principle would seem to be, that when man denies his own consciousness, or shuts himself up from such influences as would purify and quicken his consciousness, he cuts himself off from God, and becomes a son of perdition. Speaking against the Holy Ghost is speaking against the higher and final revelation of the Son of Man: in this view Christ's position in the Godhead is unimpaired; but if a sin against him were less than a. sin against the Holy Ghost, he could no longer retain divine equality. According to the Christian writings, we know nothing of the Holy Ghost except in connexion with Jesus Christ; to speak, therefore, against the Holy Ghost is to speak against Jesus Christ himself, not as he appeared when he took upon him the form of a servant (fj-opv Bovov), but as he was originally in the form of God (e'f popf) deov). As we have alre...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217832724 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217832725 |
| Weight | 0.66 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.45 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 198 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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