This is really really good and is exactly what Sam Shamoun said in the second video I posted. An impenitent sinner has no intention to turn to the Holy Spirit who is the healer and by remaining impenitent blocks the Holy Spirit. So a person becomes unforgivable. Sam quoted Acts 7:51 to drive it home. 51 “You stiff-necked people! Your hearts and ears are still uncircumcised. You are just like your ancestors: You always resist the Holy Spirit! 52 Was there ever a prophet your ancestors did not persecute? They even killed those who predicted the coming of the Righteous One. And now you have betrayed and murdered him— 53 you who have received the law that was given through angels but have not obeyed it.”
So, even though I did confess it, are you saying that I'll be in purgatory until Jesus's final coming? That there is no way for the temporal punishment to be lifted even if confessed with perfect contrition on Divine Mercy weekend?
Since you were in a state of distress, it is questionable whether this was a mortal sin at all. In any case, Our Lord is just and merciful. Trust hin His mercy. Simply go to confession, if not done already, and start all over. As long as we are in the flesh, there is always hope. Nobody is damned for sure. Everyone can return to God, even the worst sinners. So trust in God. Perhaps you suffer from scruples. In this case, perhaps the demons are tempting you to despair. You see, the demons tempt most people by taking the last judgement lightly, or not believing in it all. But some religious people, the demons tempt them to take sin too heavily. I have done some heinous things. If you knew them, you would be shocked. I have confessed them and changed my life. I trust in our Lord and his holy mother. There is always hope!
Yes. Beating ourselves up is useless. There is always hope. In 2 Corinthians 5:17, God says, “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” He says that old things are just that. Old. And gone. 2. In Isaiah 43:18-19, “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland.”
No one is saying this at all. The sin of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is to resist the Holy Spirit, to call the works of the Holy Spirit the works of Satan and so on. If you are going to confession clearly you aren't resisting the Holy Spirit. Courage!
You honestly need to see a good Priest.. Face to face. We have advised you of this many times over. Not just confession but for help. Nothing will change unless you seek to change it. I know this from my own experience. You have my prayers.
I think Brendan, you have to ask yourself what are you looking for here on the forum? Members have given you some very good and wise advice on this thread and on another, yet you still keep coming back looking for something. Naming the something will give you control over it
I guess I am looking for prayers, for any insight any of you might have from God to know if I can indeed be forgiven (I know I am in a state of sin yet again, but couldn't get to confession today due to illness) or if I am a permanantly hopeless case doomed to hell for verbally answering a question of what the unforgivable sin was in 2016. I swear that night, it felt that God left me after I said it, and I have regretted it on a more than daily basis. I guess I want certainty, there is such great pain in the uncertainty, and the fight between presumption and despair. And every time I ask God, it doesn't seem like I get an answer or something tells me (maybe my nervous mind) that the answer is no, I could not be forgiven. I keep having horrible intrusive thoughts against God and the Holy Spirit that I fight hard, but I fear that maybe for a split second when they first come in I might have believed them. Several times I have prayed, and I feel like I have been burning up afterwards. I'm scared. I have been diagnosed with OCD, if that means anything. I don't want to go to hell, and I regret what I said. I wish I had never said anything that night.
