What will happen to the church leaders and theologians throughout history who had castigated the work of the Holy Spirit in healing the sick, casting out demons, speaking in tongues, and in granting visions, dreams, prophecies, and various signs and wonders? Today people regard some of them as spiritual heroes. Why, some of them wrote your creeds! If the extent of the apostasy seems too farfetched to you, it is because you have decided that certain persons and traditions are beyond reproach, and then you use that assumption to interpret the word of God. If they did it, then what they did must not be what Jesus meant by this sin. This is backward, and it reveals that your faith is corrupt. If you use the word of God to judge these persons and traditions, then they would not pass the test.

Then there are people in our time, including many who claim to be followers of Jesus Christ, who claim to be knowledgeable Christians, or scholars and defenders of the faith, who have made equivalent statements as those made against Jesus by the Pharisees. In fact, there are those who have said things that are even worse, things that are more scathing, more deliberate, more explicit, more detailed, and more sarcastic and demeaning against the work of the Holy Spirit. There have been whole volumes dedicated to this subject. There have been entire ministries established for this purpose. Their statements against the Holy Spirit in healing the sick, speaking in tongues, and such things, were made after the ministry of Jesus had been published in the Gospels, including this incident that triggered the doctrine of the unpardonable sin. This makes them even more culpable than the Pharisees. Do you see how serious this is?