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Regarding assurance: You likely haven’t committed this sin if you’re concerned about it. Those genuinely worried they’ve blasphemed the Spirit can be confident they haven’t, since those who actually slander God’s Spirit never worry about the implications. Believers sometimes fear accidental commission, but only those who have completely rejected God need worry—and they won’t seek forgiveness because they’ve rejected the very force that leads to repentance. The presence of genuine sorrow for sin and desire for forgiveness indicates you haven’t committed this offense.

==Twisting the meaning?==

In 2 Peter 3:14-17, we are told that we need to:

''...be diligent to be found spotless and blameless by Him, at peace, 15 and regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; just as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you, 16 as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which there are some things that are hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.<ref>New American Standard Bible (La Habra, CA: The Lockman Foundation, 2020), 2 Pe 3:14–17.</ref>

William Branham taught that if you spoke against him after he died, this would be blaspheming the Holy Spirit. He also stated that when a minister denied that the [[The Houston Photograph|Houston Photograph]] was not God, this also blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. '''Isn't this distorting the meaning of what Jesus said, while at the same time pointing to himself?'''

=Quotes of William Branham=

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 Regarding assurance: You likely haven’t committed this sin if you’re concerned about it. Those genuinely worried they’ve blasphemed the Spirit can be confident they haven’t, since those who actually slander God’s Spirit never worry about the implications. Believers sometimes fear accidental commission, but only those who have completely rejected God need worry—and they won’t seek forgiveness because they’ve rejected the very force that leads to repentance. The presence of genuine sorrow for sin and desire for forgiveness indicates you haven’t committed this offense.
+==Twisting the meaning?==
+In 2 Peter 3:14-17, we are told that we need to:
+''...be diligent to be found spotless and blameless by Him, at peace, 15 and regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; just as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you, 16 as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which there are some things that are hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.<ref>New American Standard Bible (La Habra, CA: The Lockman Foundation, 2020), 2 Pe 3:14–17.</ref>
+William Branham taught that if you spoke against him after he died, this would be blaspheming the Holy Spirit. He also stated that when a minister denied that the [[The Houston Photograph|Houston Photograph]] was not God, this also blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. '''Isn't this distorting the meaning of what Jesus said, while at the same time pointing to himself?'''
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