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Donate Today. Enter Password Confirm Password. Yes No. Here at RCSpirtiuality, we develop and produce online Catholic resources to help all of us grow as Complete Christians. We believe everyone should have access to this, which is why we offer so many of our resources for free. Augustine , however De Verb. Now this word, in this sense, is said to be uttered against the Holy Ghost , because it is contrary to the remission of sins , which is the work of the Holy Ghost , Who is the charity both of the Father and of the Son.
Nor did Our Lord say this to the Jews , as though they had sinned against the Holy Ghost , since they were not yet guilty of final impenitence, but He warned them, lest by similar utterances they should come to sin against the Holy Ghost : and it is in this sense that we are to understand Mark , where after Our Lord had said: "But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost ," etc. Hence they say that when a man sins through weakness, it is a sin "against the Father"; that when he sins through ignorance , it is a sin "against the Son"; and that when he sins through certain malice , i.
First by reason of the very inclination of a vicious habit which we call malice , and, in this way, to sin through malice is not the same as to sin against the Holy Ghost.
On another way it happens that by reason of contempt, that which might have prevented the choosing of evil , is rejected or removed; thus hope is removed by despair , and fear by presumption, and so on, as we shall explain further on Q 20, Now all these things which prevent the choosing of sin are effects of the Holy Ghost in us; so that, in this sense, to sin through malice is to sin against the Holy Ghost. Reply to Objection 1. Just as the confession of faith consists in a protestation not only of words but also of deeds , so blasphemy against the Holy Ghost can be uttered in word, thought and deed.
Reply to Objection 2. According to the third interpretation, blasphemy against the Holy Ghost is condivided with blasphemy against the Son of Man , forasmuch as He is also the Son of God , i. Wherefore, in this sense, the sin against the Son of Man will be that which is committed through ignorance , or through weakness. Reply to Objection 3.
Sin committed through certain malice , in so far as it results from the inclination of a habit , is not a special sin , but a general condition of sin : whereas, in so far as it results from a special contempt of an effect of the Holy Ghost in us, it has the character of a special sin.
According to this interpretation the sin against the Holy Ghost is a special kind of sin , as also according to the first interpretation: whereas according to the second, it is not a species of sin , because final impenitence may be a circumstance of any kind of sin. Article 2. Whether it is fitting to distinguish six kinds of sin against the Holy Ghost? It would seem unfitting to distinguish six kinds of sin against the Holy Ghost , viz. For to deny God's justice or mercy belongs to unbelief.
Now, by despair , a man rejects God's mercy, and by presumption, His justice. Therefore each of these is a kind of unbelief rather than of the sin against the Holy Ghost. Further, impenitence, seemingly, regards past sins , while obstinacy regards future sins. Now past and future time do not diversify the species of virtues or vices , since it is the same faith whereby we believe that Christ was born, and those of old believed that He would be born.
Therefore obstinacy and impenitence should not be reckoned as two species of sin against the Holy Ghost. Further, " grace and truth came by Jesus Christ " John Therefore it seem that resistance of the known truth , and envy of a brother's spiritual good , belong to blasphemy against the Son rather than against the Holy Ghost. Objection 4. Further, Bernard says De Dispens. We easily call to mind powerful stories of Jesus reconciling sinners, such as the Samaritan woman or the woman caught in adultery.
Oftentimes His miracles of curing a physical ailment were preceded by the spiritual cure of forgiveness, such as the story of the paralytic man. We also remember the parables of the Prodigal Son or the Merciless Official, which exhort us to forgive as well as to seek forgiveness.
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