Sinning for Others

Do you believe in unforgivable sin?What do you consider these sins to be?If it meant saving the life of an innocent person, would you commit an unforgivable sin damning your soul to eternal torment?

Thank you for your answer and your honesty.

Thank you for your answer and your honesty.

Welcome, Mal! By 'unforgivable sin' I simply mean the idea that sin(s) exist that cannot be forgiven no matter the circumstances. I would think so; though, of course, it isn't my decision to make. Apparently New Cat's Eye thinks his might:

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New Cat's Eye in Message 6:

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If it meant saving the life of an innocent person, would you commit an unforgivable sin damning your soul to eternal torment?

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Nope.

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I find it rather disturbing.

Whether the example is helpful or not, it's pretty clear that the sin itself is pretty open ended. Notice that the sin itself is defined as "but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost". That's not very specific at all.It's like pointing out that someone going 70 MPH is speeding and then declaring speeding against the law without ever actually saying what the fuck the speedlimit is.As a directive, it couldn't be any more useless.

If you mean doing/not doing things despite knowing doing/not doing so to be 'right', then I'd argue that it's pretty much impossible to be a human and not be guilty of something like that.We always go against our judgements and often fail to do what we believe to be right. In fact, I'd say people, even the best, likely fail to do what they know is right far more often than they do do what they think is right or even avoid doing something they think is wrong. Homo sapiens just seems to be a synonym for 'miserable fucking failure'.Doing our best is so hard; but that is also what makes it so absolutely meaningful when weon the most rare of occasionsactually manage to do it.

Because as you said, it's an example. Going 70 MPH is also an examplea very detailed and concrete one.But just offering that one example doesn't really clarify "thou shalt not speed".The directive is vague as hell, and you need more than one example to clear it up. No need to tell jokes. Your position is funny enough as is.