Definition of sin and blasphemy against the Holy Spirit

 

Definition of sin and blasphemy against the Holy Spirit

 

It is a sin for someone to want to be like God and “to have such greed in his heart.” The first person to have this kind of heart appears as Eve in the Garden of Eden. Eve is a symbol of evil angels in the kingdom of God. This means that the sin of angels who sinned in the kingdom of God was to leave God because they wanted to be like God. The meaning of Jude 1:6 and 2 Peter 2:4 is shown through the picture of the Garden of Eden.

Sin is the greed to become like God, Breaking God's commandments is a consequence of sin, The result of sin is death. Those who think that breaking the commandments is a sin do not understand spiritual death. Sin did not originate in the world, but in the kingdom of God. Romans 5:12 『Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:』

One man is the first man, Adam. It is translated as ‘by one man,’ which means ‘through one man.’ The first man, Adam, was the passage through which sin entered the world. In other words, the word passage means the body through which sin passes. So the body of sin is the conduit of sin. 『Body of sin』 is called 『To soma tes hamartias』 (τὸ σῶμα τῆς ἁμαρτίας) in Greek. It can be thought of as a container for garbage, not a body of sin. If we think of sin as a thing, it is like a container containing sin. The first man, Adam, plays that role. So the first man is Christ.

God made Christ the first man, Adam. God caused the spirit to enter the dust and become a soul. Genesis 2:7 『And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.』The soul means the body of sin (the Passage of sin) that must die.

In Genesis 2:21, God caused the first man, Adam, to fall asleep (meaning death) 『And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead of it.』God took out a man's rib, created a woman from it, and filled the ribs of the first man, Adam, with flesh (physical body: soul).

After that, a man (named Adam) and a woman (named Eve) appeared in the world. Men and women are separated from Christ (the first man, Adam). Since the man's name is Adam, he is confused with the first man (Adam). The first man had no name, and God called him Man (Hebrew Adam). Jesus also called himself the Son of Man (man). The man called Son of Man represents Christ who came to the world.

Men and women are born with a body of sin from the first man, Adam, and the sins committed by “evil angels” enter their bodies of sin from heaven. And, because the spirit of an evil angel enters the body of sin, it becomes a person (man and woman). So, the evil angel spirit enters the body of sin, and the angel spirit dies. Likewise, all people in the world have sin and a body of sin (body of flesh). We receive the body of sin from our parents, and sin comes with the spirit of sin from heaven.

The first man, Adam (Christ), died, and Christ returned to heaven. When the first man, Adam, died, men and women were separated, but with the death of the last man, Adam, man and woman became one again in Christ.

Christ is God and is different from those who want to be like God. In order to put evil angels who wanted to become like God into the dust, Christ was first born into the world as dust and became the body of sin, the conduit of sin. The first man, Adam, who is Christ, had a body of sin, a channel for sin, but did not have sin.

Colossians 1:15 『Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:』He means Christ. Since he was born before all creation, he was the first man, Adam. And, since he has the image of God, he has no sin. Jesus also has no sin, only a body of sin, because he received the body of sin from Mary. And Jesus came to the world to play the role of eliminating the body of sin. Jesus died on the cross, and those who die on the cross with Jesus do not have a body of sin (a Passage of sin). A person without a body of sin cannot contain sin.

The result of sin contained in the body of sin is death, and it opposes the Word of God, which appears in various forms while the body is alive. It manifests itself in physical nature, blood relations, knowledge and experience, ideology and philosophy, religiosity, self-righteousness, and the desire to dominate others. These seven types of heart prevent us from obeying the word of God. This is death to God. Death is the death of the spirit.

Therefore, Jesus’ atoning death was to save the dead spirit,

The death of Jesus is a death to sin and the body of sin. Death to sin is expressed in water baptism, and death to the body of sin is expressed in fire baptism. Baptism is death and death. Genesis 2:17 『But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.』. The Hebrew word Mut (to die), Mut (to die) means to die twice. Baptism is dying twice.

John 16:7-9 “Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send him And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:Of sin, because they believe not on me.” 

Although Jesus spoke of the death and resurrection of the cross, the disciples were full of worry. They did not understand why Jesus had to die on the cross. He even said that Jesus died, resurrected, prepared a place for himself (the kingdom of God in the heart), and came to take his disciples. Although Jesus told the disciples that all of this was because of sins in the kingdom of God and that people were imprisoned in the world, that Christ was predestined, and so on, they still did not understand what Jesus said.

When Jesus resurrects and ascends to heaven and enters the hearts of believers again, he will give them understanding through the Holy Spirit.

 

Jesus talked about sin as the root of sin that occurred in the kingdom of God, but his disciples did not believe what Jesus said, so Jesus said he would make them realize it through the Holy Spirit.

If one does not believe that Jesus is the Son of God and has the authority to forgive sins, he is blaspheming the Holy Spirit.

 It is not accurate to say, “Not believing in Jesus is blasphemy against the Holy Spirit.” Sin is wanting to be like God. Jesus explained the sins that occurred before the creation of the world, but the disciples did not understand. So he said that Jesus would teach his disciples through the Holy Spirit,

Even though it is taught through the Holy Spirit, not believing the words of Jesus is blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. The Bible also calls this the sin of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. However, the disciples were with Jesus until then and the Holy Spirit did not come, so it was not a crime of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit.

A sinner means a person who has not escaped from sin. It is awkward to say to a "sinner who has not escaped from sin" that "blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is added because they do not believe in Jesus' words." A sinner is just a sinner who cannot be saved. Of course, the disciples would have received the Holy Spirit and realized their sin. So, the disciples clearly knew that the reason Jesus died on the cross was because of people's sins.

However, even though the Bible says that sinners are forgiven for their sins through the blood of Jesus, there are still those who believe that current or future sins must be forgiven. These people blaspheme the Holy Spirit. The sin of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit applies to believers who say they believe in Jesus but do not think that their current and past sins have been forgiven.

It is about righteousness, and Jesus explains that by dying on the cross, he died to sin and the body of sin also died, and that through death on the cross, he receives resurrection life. If he dies in union with Jesus on the cross, he also receives God's righteousness. This is the righteousness of God. This also means that you will realize it through the Holy Spirit.

Regarding judgment, when sinners receive God's righteousness on this earth, they become free. So, we were released from the control of Satan, who manages sinners. From Satan's perspective, this is a failure because the sinner is taken away. God gave him control to manage sinners, but because God took away the control of sinners, Satan was punished for not being able to properly manage sinners. This principle is also revealed through the Holy Spirit.

However, believers have a physical self like the seven tribes of Canaan. A believer who has become a spiritual self has the difficulty of having to fight against his physical self. Saints must fight a spiritual war of self-denial through prayer, and believers must walk while thinking about what the Apostle Paul said: “I die every day.”