re: What do you think of people who curse?

Do you give Gangsta Rappers a pass and if not, isn't that Racist?

I think you're gay

I don't think either way. It's words

How do you rectify your comments:

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There is no sin that Jesus cannot forgive.

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There is no sin for which a genuinely penitent sinner should conclude that Christ's mercy is unavailable to him.

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With this:

“whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; they are guilty of an eternal sin." Mark 3:29

And this:

“ And so I tell you, every kind of sin and slander can be forgiven, but blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven.” Matthew 12:31

I guess my question is, can someone blaspheme against the Holy Spirit and be forgiven? If so, how is that forgiveness not in direct contradiction to the words of Jesus quoted in two Gospels.

I just pray for them..

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So blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is a forgivable sin?

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It seems it's a permanent refusal to be guided. If eventually you allow it there is no blasphemy. But, you go with whatever you want to.

No. Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, in the sense Jesus is describing, is not forgivable. Mark 3:29 is explicit.

What I think you're really getting at is whether the Christian explanation of this amounts to special pleading -- in other words, whether Christians simply redefine the "unforgivable sin" so that any person who later repents is said never to have committed it in the first place.

If that's your point, just say so, because that's a more interesting question.

My answer would be that Mark itself forces us to ask what Jesus means by the sin. Verse 30 gives the immediate context: the scribes were witnessing the work of God through Jesus and attributing it to an evil spirit. So I don't think Jesus is merely identifying a particular sentence that, once uttered, permanently bars someone from forgiveness.

I think he is describing a willful and hardened rejection of the Spirit's testimony concerning Christ.

EDIT: (and sorry for the length, but I think it's worthwhile to share this)

Since we're discussing Mark 3, the context leading up to this is worth mentioning.

Jesus has been teaching with an authority that astonishes people, casting out evil spirits, healing the sick, cleansing a leper, healing a paralyzed man, and claiming the authority to forgive sins. Yet the opposition from some of the religious leaders continues to harden.

It culminates in an almost bizarre scene at the beginning of Mark 3. Jesus encounters a man with a deformed hand in the synagogue, and the religious leaders aren't watching to see whether Jesus can heal him or what that might reveal about who He is. They're watching to see whether He will heal the man on the Sabbath so they can accuse Him.

Jesus heals him.

Their response? By Mark 3:6, the Pharisees are plotting with the supporters of Herod about how to kill Jesus.

Then, when Jesus continues performing works that should cause them to reconsider who He is, the teachers of religious law claim His power comes from Satan.

THAT is the immediate setting for Jesus' warning about blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. Mark even closes the warning by explicitly telling us why Jesus said it: "He told them this because they were saying, 'He's possessed by an evil spirit.'" (Mark 3:30)

So I don't think the context is incidental. These aren't people innocently asking whether Jesus might be the Messiah and getting the answer wrong. Mark is showing people confronted with extraordinary evidence of God's work who respond by becoming increasingly hostile to it, eventually attributing that work to evil.

Weak vocabulary.

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Low IQ

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He only had to count part of the way to ten.