I thought I would list my teachers...
E. W. Bullinger
Taught me how to understand the Bible with his book called How to enjoy the Bible.
John Sanders
Opened my eyes with his book called The God Who Risks.
Gregory Boyd
Shed a lot of light as did John Sanders with his book called God at War.
Andew Farley
Taught me a lot about our sin nature with his videos on the Perfect You...
https://youtu.be/bOtcjkVJLl8?si=qhn3YB_a9PBBxmGy
Andrew Wommack
Taught me how to walk in the spirit with his videos on Spirit Soul Body...
https://youtu.be/wXJD2vwYW8Y?si=PMitqW-XrSmpH6E3
I have gone beyond the thinking of most in the biblical field and so I'm considered outside of their reach. A loner, an outcast, the filth of the community, or if you will... a heretic.
I thought I would list Wierwille's teachers...
There was no audible talking from God or gas pumps covered in snow in July. Wierwille learned how to rightly divide the Scriptures from the book called How to enjoy the Bible by E.W. Bullinger. I have a copy.
After Wierwille graduated from B.G. Leonard's Gifts of the Spirit class he began teaching a similar class that he initially called Receiving the Holy Spirit Today, but soon changed it to Power for Abundant Living (PFAL). He later expanded it into a teaching series, including a foundational, intermediate, and advanced class.
He learned about the "law of believing" from E.W. Kenyon which is not biblical.
John A. Lynn wrote it this way... "We were very involved in that ministry for the better part of 20 years, serving in a variety of teaching and leadership positions. We were taught a staunchly non-Trinitarian Christian gospel, but one that viewed a personal relationship with Jesus Christ as at best suspect, and at worst idolatrous."
A teaching on healing...
Hey, this is a good teaching on healing.
A total of seven hours from part one through nine.
(10) 9 Part Teaching on Healing - Barry Bennett - Charis Bible College - YouTube
Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is a measure used in science and engineering that compares the level of a desired signal to the level of background noise. A high SNR means the signal is clear and easy to detect or interpret, while a low SNR means the signal is corrupted or obscured by noise and may be difficult to distinguish or recover. SNR can be improved by reducing the noise level. Steve Jobs had an 80/20 Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) while Elon Musk is believed to operate at 100 percent, tolerating virtually no noise.
Both leaders used this principle of focusing intensely on critical tasks and eliminating distractions—Jobs for simplicity and design, Musk for fast execution and innovation to achieve groundbreaking success in their respective fields. In my case I have applied it to my ability to stay focused on walking in the spirit to the end that I'm right inside the spirit as close as I can get right in the face of Jesus Christ.
John 14:12
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also;
"believeth on me" is referring to his attributes, characteristics, and authority.
I dare not leave the realm of the spirit and walk in the realm of the senses because I'm a new creation in Christ Jesus. I need to think of myself as living in this new realm since all things have now become new. As the branch is to the vine, so am I to the heart of Christ. I abide in him and he in me and thus, I'm utterly one with him and therefore I need to speak the truth in Christ.
Not bad for a high school drop out who never got past the third grade. Yep, that's me who was also thrown out of Bible college 7 times and even thrown out of a local church. And I mean walked right out the door by security and another guy who took my picture and told me not to ever come back. Should I mention being thrown out of every school in the city of Rochester and terminated from every job I ever had until I retired?
And somehow, I managed to have more than 12 thousand folks clicking on my online Christian book just last month. I could see 500 spending some time reading it along with more than 300 out of the 500 reading my biblical data for an hour or more each and every month. My advertising department tells me I have more than 50 thousand followers just on Facebook. It's an online book that I think cannot be all that bad since I mention the word "Jesus" 434 times and the word "Christ" 842 times in a paper that has 157 pages.
https://walking-by-the-spirit.com
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Andrew Wommack
Christians believe their sins are forgiven when they are born again up to that point, but must run to God to confess and repent their new sins every time they sin after becoming a Christian. The belief is that you will either be lost, or on your way to hell, or at the very least God will not fellowship with you, and He certainly will not answer your prayers if you are found with an unconfessed sin. Such a concept would mean everybody would be on their way to hell because there is not a person on this earth who does not have either a known or an unknown unconfessed sin. Now if this new sin just means the loss of a relationship with God, which would include unanswered prayers. Then God would not have a single person on this earth qualified to receive an answer to prayer or to be able to fellowship with Him.
An updated list for your enjoyment
1.) “The doctrine of the Trinity is not found in the Bible.” - Christian Doctrine: Teachings of the Christian Church, p. 97, Professor Shirley C. Guthrie Jr., 1968, J. Knox Press.
2.) “The doctrine of the Trinity itself is not a biblical doctrine, and this indeed is not by accident but rather of necessity. It's the product of theological reflection upon the problem, which is raised necessarily by the Christian kerygma.” - The Christian Doctrine of God, Volume 1 (Dogmatics), Emil Brunner, Westminster Press, 1950.
3.) “The Trinity of God is defined by the Church as the belief that in God are three persons who subsist in one nature. The belief as so defined was reached only in the 4th and 5th centuries AD and hence is not explicitly and formally a biblical belief.” - Dictionary of the Bible, Jesuit Catholic Trinitarian John L. Mckenzie, p. 899, Simon & Schuster, 1995.
4.) “No passage of Scripture discusses or explains the oneness and the threeness of God.” - NIV Disciple's Study Bible, note on Matthew 3:16–17, p. 1172.
5.) “Nowhere do we find any trinitarian doctrine of three distinct subjects of divine life and activity in the same Godhead.” - The Triune God, Edmund J. Fortman, p. 16 Westminster Press, 1972.
6.) “Many scholars generally agree that there's no doctrine of the Trinity as such in either the Old Testament or the New Testament.” - The HarperCollins Encyclopedia of Catholicism, 1995, p. 564.
7.) “Both exegetes and theologians are in agreement today that the Hebrew Bible does not contain a doctrine of the Trinity or an explicit doctrine of the Trinity in the New Testament." - Roman Catholic Perspectives, ed. Francis Schüssler Fiorenza & John P. Galvin, Volume 1 (Fortress Press, 1991), p. 160.
8.) “Both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament have no trinitarian statements or speculations concerning the doctrine of the Trinity—only triadic liturgical formulas invoking God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.” - Encyclopedia Britannica, “Monotheism – Judaism, Christianity, Islam,” section “Christianity,” online edition, Apr. 2, 2026.
9.) “As far as the New Testament is concerned, one does not find in it an actual doctrine of the Trinity.” - A Short History of Christian Doctrine, Bernard Lohse, (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1966), p. 38.
10.) “In the New Testament there is no direct suggestion of a doctrine of the Trinity.” - An Encyclopedia of Religion, ed. Vergilius Ferm, 1945, p. 344.
11.) “To Jesus and Paul, the doctrine of the Trinity was apparently unknown since they say nothing about it.” - Origin and Evolution of Religion, E. Washburn Hopkins (Yale University Press, 1923), p. 336.
12.) “The explicit Trinity doctrine was thus formulated in the post biblical period” - Harper’s Bible Dictionary, 1985, p. 1098.
13.) “The formulation "one God in three persons" was not solidly established, certainly not fully assimilated into Christian life and its profession of faith prior to the end of the 4th century. Among the Apostolic Fathers, there had been nothing even remotely approaching such a mentality or perspective.” -New Catholic Encyclopedia, 1967, Volume 14, p. 299.
14.) “No Apostle would have dreamed of thinking that there are the three divine persons, whose mutual relations and paradoxical unity are beyond our understanding.” - The Christian Doctrine of God (Dogmatics, Volume 1), Emil Brunner, p. 226.
15.) “Primitive Christianity did not have an explicit doctrine of the Trinity such as was subsequently elaborated in the creeds of the early Church.” - New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology, ed. Colin Brown, Volume 2, p. 84.
16.) The New Bible Dictionary acknowledges that the term “Trinity” does not appear in Scripture and that the doctrine is formulated through theological reflection on biblical material. - The New Bible Dictionary, ed. J. D. Douglas & F. F. Bruce, 2nd ed., InterVarsity Press, 1982, article “Trinity”.
17.) The Encyclopedia Americana (1956) characterizes fourth-century trinitarianism as a later development that diverges from earlier Christian teaching.
18.) The Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics, ed. James Hastings, acknowledges that early Christianity (including the apostolic age reflected in the New Testament) was not trinitarian in its theological framework.
19.) “The Bible does not teach the doctrine of the Trinity. Neither the word "Trinity" itself, nor such language as "one-in-three" or "three-in-one" or "one essence" or "substance" or "three persons" can be found in biblical language.” - Christian Doctrine: Teachings of The Christian Church, p. 92, Professor Shirley C. Guthrie Jr., 1968, J. Knox Press.
It was written by Vince Finnegan
I woke up today in utter amazement that I was thrown out of a Christian ministry having been very close to the Lord Jesus Christ. Today I was presented with a couple of pages of a teaching by a guy by the name of Vince Finnegan written on April 17, 2026. I am now even more powerful in the Scriptures than I was when I was thrown out of a Christian ministry and with great emotion I tried more than 3 times to force myself to read this short teaching by Vince Finnegan. I was however, only able to get a good 3 quarters into it and I'm still in a mild shock that guys like me are thrown out of Christian churches whereas guys like Vince Finnegan are considered world leaders in Christianity.
A page into the document Vince writes...
The second point is that salvation is a gift of God's grace. Paul states this simply and clearly in Romans 3:23-24: "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus." Justification, redemption, and salvation are literally impossible to attain by human works; they are the gifts of grace accomplished through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
What Vince seems to be unable to understand is that Paul is referring to Jews and Gentiles and not Christians and he tells you this which can be clearly seen in the context from Romans 3:9
Romans 3:9 ...both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
Vince uses the words "Gentile believers" and there are no such words to be found in Scripture.
Vince writes...
1 Corinthians 6:9-11 declares that unrepentant sinners including those who were once washed, sanctified, and justified will not inherit the kingdom.
There's something very wrong with a guy who believes he's a Bible teacher who cannot understand that 1 Corinthians 6:11 is referring to the Christian who is no longer into the flesh as some of you were. But now as Christians you are washed, sanctified, and justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
1 Corinthians 6:11
And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
In this short paper Vince mentions Romans 11 and writes about Christians being able to be cast away and broken from the branches of God and yet once again he fails to understand context. Romans 11:13 tells us Paul is speaking to Gentiles and not Christians and verse 13 tells us that.
Romans 11:13
For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
You asked where he is saying you can lose your salvation
Romans 9–11: Foundational Truths Often Missed By Vince Finnegan on April 17, 2026
Understanding Romans chapters 9–11 is absolutely vital for reading accurately the book of Romans and all of the Pauline Epistles. These three chapters function as the theological spine of Paul’s church epistles. Without Romans 9–11, Paul’s other letters are easily misunderstood or even distorted. This article is too brief to explain everything in these three powerful chapters; however, I will touch on some of the important points with the hope that you will study these chapters for yourself.
First, Romans 9–11 clarifies that election is not arbitrary favoritism rather God with infinite wisdom knows and selects who will be part of His redemption plan while still holding people responsible for their belief. This balance is explained with detail in Galatians and Ephesians, where grace excludes boasting but never removes accountability.
God is sovereign; human beings are not. From all the people on earth, God selected Abraham and entered into covenant with him. From Abraham’s two sons, God chose Isaac rather than Ishmael. From Isaac’s two sons, God chose Jacob rather than Esau.
Yet God’s choosing never involved coercion or force. Each person was called and each was responsible for responding in faith. Jacob was renamed Israel. His family grew into millions and all of them were called. Yet only a few responded with faith thereby becoming God’s elect. Jesus said it this way “Many are called but few are chosen”. God decides who He calls and the called must respond with faith. The chosen or elect are those who have faith in the calling. Although all Israel were called by God, not all responded with faith. Those who did became God’s elect.
Romans explains that God’s calling is grounded in His mercy and grace, not in human works or merit. At the same time, Paul consistently teaches that God’s call requires a response—faith. Election, therefore, is not fatalism or divine determinism apart from human freedom. It is a gracious invitation initiated by God and received by those who respond in faith. The faith or believing required always relates specifically to God’s criteria and not ours. We do not decide what we should believe. God tells us what to believe!
In these three chapters God makes clear that the inclusion of the Gentiles was His decision, not the decision of Jewish believers who were rejecting them. God’s choosing has always been determined by Him, not by human judgment, and it has always been grounded in His grace and mercy. Again, God’s chosen do not supersede human self-determination rather, coincide with it.
The second vital point is that salvation is a gift of God’s grace. Paul states this simply and clearly in Romans 3:23–24: “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus.” Justification, redemption, and salvation are literally impossible to attain by human works; they are gifts of grace accomplished through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
This free gift is now offered to everyone in the world, yet it must be received. The required response is faith—believing that what God accomplished for us in Christ is true. As Paul explains in Romans 10:9–10: “If you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.”
The vast majority of Jews did not believe this, but instead believed they were required to obey the Law given through Moses in order to be justified. Convinced that righteousness depended on works, they stumbled over Jesus the Christ, and as a result excluded themselves from the free gift of grace.
A similar pattern can be seen today throughout much of Christianity. While most Christians affirm salvation is by grace, many traditions still attach saving significance to particular works or rituals. Roman Catholics emphasize participation in the sacraments; Baptists often insist that water baptism is necessary for salvation; Methodists emphasize their distinctive practices and disciplines; and other groups have their own required methods. In each case, human actions are subtly elevated alongside faith, obscuring the biblical teaching that salvation is received solely as a gift of God’s grace through faith in Christ. Again, the required response is faith—believing that what God accomplished for us in Christ is true.
Confusion often arises from the many passages of Scripture that call believers to obey Christ’s commandments and live under his lordship. We are not saved by these works; rather, because we are saved and Jesus is our Lord, we are now empowered to do good works and commanded to live accordingly. A life submitted to Christ gives visible evidence that he truly is Lord. Conversely, a pattern of habitual ongoing, unrepentant sin reveals a refusal to live under his lordship. This understanding leads to the third point.
Romans 11 confronts one of the most subtle and dangerous errors facing the church today. Paul makes it definitely clear that Israel was broken off because of unbelief, and that Gentile believers stand only by faith. The same God who did not spare the natural branches (Israel) will not spare the grafted ones (Gentiles) if they do not continue in His kindness. Yet a common teaching today claims that once a person is saved, their later life no longer matters. Romans 11 directly contradicts this. Final salvation is not guaranteed by one past decision, but by continuing, living faith.
This section presents a sober and consistent warning: Israel was broken off because of unbelief, and Gentile believers stand only by continuing faith. Pride or presumption places Gentile believers under the same danger of being cut off. This theme of conditional perseverance echoes throughout Scripture. Galatians 5:19–21 warns that those who persist in the works of the flesh will not inherit the kingdom. Likewise, 1 Corinthians 6:9–11 declares that unrepentant sinners—including those who were once washed, sanctified, and justified—will not inherit the kingdom. Hebrews 3:12–14 exhorts believers to guard against an unbelieving heart that turns away from God and to hold firmly to their faith until the end.
Ongoing faith and obedience is repeatedly emphasized elsewhere. In John 15:1–6, Jesus warns that branches that do not remain in him are cut off and thrown into the fire. Matthew 24:12–13 teaches that endurance to the end is required for salvation, while Colossians 1:23 ties reconciliation to remaining firm, and steadfast in the faith. In 1 Thessalonians 3:5, Paul expresses concern that believers’ faith could be undermined, and 2 Peter 2:20–22 those who return to sin are described as being in a worse condition than before. Hebrews 10:26 explicitly warns that deliberate, ongoing sin after receiving knowledge of the truth leaves no remaining sacrifice for sin. Finally, Revelation 3:5 cautions that names can be blotted out of the book of life if believers fail to overcome.
Taken together, these passages make the biblical pattern unmistakably clear: salvation is by grace through faith, but that faith must remain living, obedient, and enduring. Any teaching that claims a believer’s future is secure regardless of continued faith and conduct stands in direct contradiction to the consistent witness of Scripture.
The fourth point magnifies God’s mercy. The disobedience of the Gentiles lead them to faith in Christ. The disobedience that Israel now experiences will eventually lead them to repentance and the acceptance of Christ. So, the disobedience of all magnifies God’s mercy to all. When Romans was written the Jews were the enemies of the believing Gentiles, “but from the standpoint of God’s choice they are beloved for the sake of the fathers; for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.”
God cut a covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob that He does not forget and will fulfil even though Israel has been rebellious and disobedient for centuries. He promises that sometime in the future Israel will be jealous of God’s blessings on the Gentiles that will lead them to repentance and finally believe that Jesus is the Messiah, God’s gift of grace for their salvation.
Romans 11:25. For I do not want you, brethren, to be uninformed of this mystery — so that you [Gentiles] will not be wise in your own estimation– that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in…
Romans does not specify when this will occur, however, a strong case can be made that Israel’s repentance takes place during the tribulation, shortly before the sounding of the seventh and final trumpet described in the Book of Revelation. They repent, the song of Moses and the Lamb is sung and then Jesus returns. A full treatment of this subject would require a separate, in-depth study, information for another article.
My final point is God’s great love and concern for Israel is evident in His servant Paul. He said the following – “I have great sorrow and unceasing grief in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were accursed, separated from Christ for the sake of my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh.” The Book of Acts records Paul’s three itineraries and his constant efforts to reach the Israelites and their constant rejection that compel Paul to turn to the Gentiles.
The Church Epistles stress over and over the unity all believers have in Christ. That which separated the Jews and the Gentiles was taken out of the way on the cross. We are all equal members of the same body. Ephesians 3:6 says it well “the Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.” Sadly, the unity was never fully realized and by the end of the first century the church was split between the Christian Jews and Gentiles. The disunity is still a reality with all the denotational divisions within Christianity.
In summary: election is not predestination that operates independently of human free will but calls for a genuine response of faith. Salvation comes by grace, not human works, through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Once saved always saved contradicts faithful perseverance. In the end, before Christ returns, because of God’s unfathomable mercy, Israel will finally believe. God wants the entire church unified in Christ. In closing my suggestion is to explore Romans 9-11 asking God to help you fully understand.
Romans 11:33-36. Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways! For who has known the mind of the LORD or who became His counselor? Or who has first given to Him that it might be paid back to Him again? For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever. Amen.The post Romans 9–11: Foundational Truths Often Missed first appeared on Living Hope.
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1 Samuel 2:12
Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the LORD.
Holy Smokes... they were the sons of the High Priest.
“people will be forgiven for every sin and blasphemy, but the blasphemy of the Spirit will not be forgiven.” These words of Jesus Christ in Matthew 12:31-32; Mark 3:28-29; and Luke 12:10 are very direct: “every” sin and blasphemy will be forgiven except one, a sin he referred to as “blasphemy” or to “speak against” the Holy Spirit. The definition of “blasphemy” includes slander, speaking against God, or verbal abuse, and it's clear from comparing the above two verses that Christ is defining blasphemy as “speaking against” something.
Jesus said there is one form of blasphemy against God that will never be forgiven, and he was referring to a specific blasphemy, not just speaking against God in general. Many people have at some time been angry at God due to the horrific circumstances of this fallen world, and many have spoken very harshly about God and or to Him. In fact, it's safe to say that most people have even cursed at God, and yet when they ask for forgiveness, He forgives them. The same is true of other kinds of sin. Many people sin horribly against God but are later forgiven. But there is a blasphemy that will not be forgiven.
What we learn from the scope of Scripture is that the blasphemy that cannot be forgiven is a person saying, and truly meaning in the depths of their heart, that Satan is the true God. The Bible reveals that the Devil can have “children” that is, people who have a unique relationship with him that makes them different from other sinners whose sins can be forgiven. People who are children of the Devil have sinned in such a way that they are no longer redeemable, that is, they cannot be forgiven, and it's not possible for them to be saved. The world is full of sinful people, and some of those sinners do very horrible things. Nevertheless, in the spiritual world, there is a difference between people who sin and can be forgiven and people who cannot be forgiven because in their heart of hearts they have taken the Devil as their god and have become his “children” and are true enemies of righteousness.
The Bible has much evidence of the “unforgivable sin” which leads to the everlasting death of the individual who commits it. 1 John 5:16 (KJV): If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it. This verse reveals the same basic truth Jesus spoke about: there are sins that are “not unto death” and there is a sin that is “unto death.” The Word of God directs us not to pray for those who have committed the sin unto death because they cannot be forgiven.
Scripture shows a link between the unforgivable sin and those referred to as “children of the Devil.” When speaking to some of the religious leaders, Jesus said “You are of your father the Devil” (John 8:44 NASB). These leaders were in a different category than “regular” sinners like the prostitutes and tax collectors, whom Jesus never referred to as “children of the Devil.” Jesus always reached out to sinners like prostitutes, tax collectors, and even the thief on the cross. He actively tried to win them to salvation and to living a life of righteousness. In contrast, there is no evidence Jesus attempted to evangelize those he referred to as being fathered by the Devil. Instead he told his disciples “Leave them alone! They are blind guides” (Matthew 15:14). Jesus’ teaching does show us that a person can be “religious” and be a child of the Devil, but upon examination, it can be seen that the person’s so-called religion is hurtful, oppressive, and contradicts the heart of God.
The apostle Paul also encountered a child of the Devil. Confronting the false prophet Bar-jesus, he said by revelation: “You are a child of the Devil and an enemy of everything right” (Acts 13:9-10). Paul confronted many stubborn, sinful, hard-hearted people on his journeys, but this was the only man he called a child of the Devil. The fact that the text tells us that Paul was filled with the holy spirit when he spoke alerts us to the fact that this was not just his opinion, but came from the Lord. Those people who commit the unforgivable sin become children of the Devil.
Interestingly, there is a lot of folklore about people who “sell their soul to the Devil.” The folklore usually goes something like this: a person wants something really badly, like money, power, fame, or love. So the Devil comes to him and says “I will give you what you want at a very reasonable price—your eternal soul.” The person, blinded by desire, makes the deal with the Devil and then at the end of his life has to go to “hell” with no chance of “heaven.” Most folklore has some basis of truth in it, and this folklore is no different. Throughout history, many people have sensed that, in contrast to the majority of sinners who are simply caught up in their sin, some people are truly evil to the core and are somehow connected to evil spiritual forces, and many of those people are indeed “children” of the Devil, just as Christ said.
Some people so strongly lust for what they want that in their heart they make Satan, or one of his many fronts or idols, their “true” god and provider, and thus become his “children.” These self-centered people turn to Satan in order to quickly gain their desires, and in so doing turn away from the true God. The Bible does not describe exactly what a person does to become a child of the Devil, but it gives us some important information. Because Christ categorized it as a form of blasphemy, we know it is something that is said, either audibly or by speaking to oneself, but it cannot simply be saying, “I hate God” or “I love the Devil” or something such as that. It has to be fully believed in the heart as well as in the mind. From what we see in Scripture, it occurs when someone completely turns away from God, and confesses and believes in their heart that Satan, or one of his many forms—such as money, power, fame, or love—is the true “god” by being their sustainer, provider, or the “lord” of their life.
The Bible makes it clear that committing the unforgivable sin is a decision of the heart, not just something people say or act out without being heart-committed to it. The world is full of many kinds of egregious sinners—murderers, rapists, and much more—who later repent and get saved. That includes many people who dabble in the black arts, magic, spells, divination, and such. We know from Acts 19 when Paul was in Ephesus that many of the people who had been involved in magic got saved (Acts 19:18-20). Although some people are frightened that because of the sins they have committed they might not be able to be saved, the scriptural evidence is that if a person wants to be saved, or is concerned about not being saved, then they have not committed the unforgivable sin. The people in the Bible who had committed the unforgivable sin, such as Cain, the religious leaders Jesus was talking to in John 8:44, or Elymas the sorcerer, had no desire to humble themselves to God and get saved. In contrast, Simon the sorcerer got saved despite his background in magic arts because he had never made a heart commitment to Satan (Acts 8:13).
In the context of the unforgivable sin, it is important that Christians understand “god” in its more basic meaning of sustainer, provider, something that is worshiped or idealized, and something considered of supreme value. To blaspheme God does not mean one has to believe that the Devil is actually the Christian God and Father. Nor does it mean a person has to know that the Devil is a fallen angel who opposes the true creator God. To commit the unforgivable sin a person only has to truly take the Devil or one of his fronts as his own true god and provider. For example, it is unlikely that the Pharisees who were children of the Devil had taken “the Devil” per se as their god, but rather that they so highly valued their prestige, power, and position that they had in their hearts made that their god, and in doing so completely turned away from the true God and turned to the Devil via one of his fronts.
The unforgivable sin can be committed by believing and saying in your heart that Satan or one of the forms he hides behind and supports is the true sustainer, provider, or object of supreme value in one’s life. No doubt that was what Satan was asking Jesus to do when he offered him all the power of the world if Jesus would worship him (Luke 4:6). The Devil was not asking Jesus to think that God did not exist or that Satan somehow was, in fact, God, but rather that Satan would be Jesus’ true sustainer and provider, the true god of his life. The Devil wanted Jesus to become a child of his, which would have been the ultimate coup, but to do so Jesus would have had to “worship” the Devil, not just in form, but in the depths of his heart.
It's not specifically stated in Scripture what happens to a person spiritually, mentally, and physically when he becomes a child of the Devil such that he is unable to repent and be saved. We have no way of knowing what actually happens, but one possibility is that when a person commits the unforgivable sin, a demon enters them and gains access to, or perhaps even takes control of, the portion of the brain that controls freedom of choice, and the demon continually blocks the person’s ability to repent. It's also possible that the Devil could neurologically rewire part of the person’s brain. The Devil has the power to alter the genetic characteristics of plants and animals (Genesis 3:16-17), and so genetic manipulation is not beyond his ability. The Bible has a lot to say about the people who have committed the unforgivable sin and become God’s enemies, and it can be found throughout the Scripture. Cain committed the unforgivable sin and was a child of the Devil and so were the sons of Eli the High Priest (1 Samuel 2:12).
Some people who have greatly sinned or been very angry with God are afraid they have committed the unforgivable sin, so it is worth repeating that if a person desires to repent and follow Jesus then they have not committed that sin. In the Bible, the children of the Devil are enemies of God and they reflect the Devil’s nature. They are envious, murderers, liars, and show no genuine godly concern for humankind (Genesis 4:8-9; 1 John 3:12). They lead people away from God and into idolatry or false systems of worship (Deuteronomy 13:13); they rape, murder, and instigate wars (Judges 19:22-28; 20:11-14); they blaspheme God and the things of God (1 Samuel 2:12-17); they lie (1 Kings 21:10, 13), and they resent godly leadership and work to weaken it (1 Samuel 10:27; 2 Samuel 20:1); they sow division (1 Samuel 30:22; 2 Chronicles 13:7). They do the works of the Devil (John 8:44) and try to pervert the ways of God (Acts 13:10), and they work to make it hard for people to obey God (Matthew 15:3-9; Luke 11:46). Children of the Devil will never repent, so believers should follow Christ’s guidance and leave them alone. In contrast, if a person wants to repent and follow Jesus, they are not a child of the Devil.
The Greek noun "blasphemy" blasphēmia (#988 βλασφημία), and the verb blasphēmeō (#987 βλασφημέω) are transliterated (not translated) from the Greek into English as “blasphemy.” “Blasphemy” in English has a different meaning than blasphēmeō and blasphēmia do in Greek. In English, “blasphemy” is only used in reference to God. It's insulting God or a god, insulting something considered sacred (like defacing a cross or statue of Jesus) or falsely claiming to be God or a god in some way. However, in Greek, blasphēmia and blasphēmeō did not have to refer to God or a god, but were common words that were used of someone speaking against another, slandering or insulting them. The primary meaning of them as they were used in the Greek culture was showing disrespect to a person or deity, and or harming his, her, or its reputation. In the honor shame society of the biblical world, that was even more heinous an act than we would think of it today because honor and reputation were at the very core of societal status and were the basis of all social interaction.