Session 17 - Matthew 11.20-12.37 Spirit vs Letter of law

Key Points:

What sin can’t be forgiven?  

We must look beyond the LETTER of the law to follow the SPIRIT of the law. ( So, if helping an accident victim causes you to miss Mass, helping the wounded person takes priority.)  The LAW is good and needed, but it’s ultimate purpose is to guide us as to how to love God and our fellow people better, not the other way around. 

“Whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.....” means to reject God’s mercy to the end of our life...either by saying that we don’t need God’s mercy (that we don’t need God at all), or by saying that our troubles are so great that God cannot help us.  (See CCC paragraph 1864.)

We will answer for every thing we’ve said and done on the day of judgement.
(But, thank God for Purgatory!)

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