Blaspheme one part of the Trinity but not the whole?
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Under Trinitarian principles, there is one God who reveals himself in three persons. One way to think of this is as a coin, where the front, the back, and the surface around the circumference are three distinct views of the coin. One can act against one view, making a mark on the front without affecting the other two. In like manner one can act against one person of the Trinity without acting against the other.
Note two that this saying of Jesus appears two other places, in Matthew (12:31-32), and in Mark (3:28-30). In two of the places it occurs, Jesus is speaking with his disciples, but in Mark he seems to be making a reference to the Pharisees.
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"God is one" refers to the fact that all angels from heaven, and all 7 Spirits of God, the Father, and Christ, are one in that they agree with one another and there is a chain of authority that is upheld by all parts of God.
You can blaspheme angels as well, and you aren't supposed to. (Jude)
You can declare that God deceived you, and according to Ezekiel 14:9, God might destroy you for that, but that isn't an unforgivable sin according to most interpretations.
sinning against one part of God isn't the same as another.
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Treading lightly here, and having no intentions of offending anyone.
The "trinity" is not found anywhere in the Bible, yet there are many scriptures which show that God the Father, Jesus Christ, and The Holy Spirit are three distinct beings, one example of this is at Christ's baptism. Christ is baptized, God's voice is heard from the Heavens, and the Holy Spirit descended as a dove. Three distinct beings.
With that understanding, it is easy to see that you can blaspheme the Son of Man, but the Holy Spirit.
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I don't have anything I can back this up with, but I learned that the unforgivable sin was to say that God cannot forgive you. You have a free will so God will not force his forgiveness on you. People usually commit this sin by denying the fact that they sin or thinking that they sinned so badly God would not forgive them.
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While the three persons of the Trinity are one God, they are three persons. If it is possible to talk about one of the persons alone (and it clearly is) then it is also possible to blaspheme against only one.
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