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And Pilgrim, you say I was 'wrong again' for saying that the Pharisees who opposed Jesus did not believe in Him? I will let you look up the references yourself that show that they did not believe in him. The fact that that which may be known of God in manifest in men, because God has made it known to them, revealing them by the things that are made, does not negate the fact that the Pharisees who opposed Christ did not believe in them.
Oh dear... more dribble! <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/rolleyes2.gif" alt="" /> READ [Linked Image] what I actually wrote in reply to what you were positing, re: blaspheming the Holy Spirit. The fact is that the Pharisees KNEW who Jesus of Nazareth was as is shown by the passages quoted, (John 5:18, 10:33). One can know the truth without being regenerate but one cannot believe that truth with a living fiduciary faith without having been regenerated by the sovereign work of the Holy Spirit. And one who is indwelt with the Holy Spirit will not and cannot blaspheme this same Holy Spirit, for the Spirit cannot deny Himself.

The passage in Romans was given simply to show that men, even in their unregenerate state, can and do understand the truth concerning the existence and nature of God and even that they are under judgment. For they take that truth, which can be seen from the physical creation around them AND God Himself has manifested this truth IN them, by virtue that they are created in the image of God, and substitute that which they know to be true for a lie. The issue of the Pharisees is simply a further application of this truth in regard to the identity of Jesus of Nazareth. They KNEW full well who He was both from the physical manifestations of His works and from His self-attestation. And for this reason, they hated Him all the more and sought to kill Him.

Thus, it is those who are unregenerate who are capable of blaspheming the Holy Spirit which includes those who outwardly profess to believe yet are still dead in sins.

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So are you jokingly pretending to be a charismatic (claiming to have extra-scriptural revelation) at the risk of being a false prophet?
<img src="/forum/images/graemlins/nope.gif" alt="" /> I was not joking at all as you wrong assume. And definitely it was not the case that I was pretending to be a charismagic, for why would I want to pretend to be something that God opposes? The Holy Spirit has many times revealed to me that all these charismatic claims and manifestations are not of God. And that revelation came and continues to come through the reading of His inspired infallible and inerrant written Word as the Lord Christ had promised from the beginning. (Ps 119:144, 151, 152; Jh 17:17)

In His grace,

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