The sin that cannot be forgiven before death for an individual can absolutely be none and therefore when Jesus says the blasphemy against the holy spirit will never be forgiven before the age he could not at all be talking about an individual human being since otherwise it would nullify either the sacraments of confession or the anointing of the sick. St John Paul II discusses this he attributes this sin to the final impenitance.
For imagine the absurdity that a person committed this sin and then repented and went to the priests and the priest said well I can't forgive you you can't go to confession because this is unforgivable that's absurd
There is nothing that cannot be forgiven in the confessional absolutely nothing and that is whether it is an abortion whether it is murder whether it is pedophilia and whether it is any other thing that slanders God even slandering the holy spirit because of a person repents a slander in the Holy Spirit they will be forgiven
Hence Jesus can only be talking apocalyptically
And he must be referring to the great apostasy at the end of the world
At the end of the world after having seen a dress rehearsal for the end of the world in the minor chastisement that is coming in our day
being shown what happens when humanity discards God and thinks they can do things on their own
And if there were not enough but having the Holy Spirit descend from heaven and bring peace for a great age with faith and science reconciled
And then accuse this great age of peace to have bƩn existed merely because of the secular developments rather than the Holy Spirit
Will be saying that by the the powers of this world was the devil restrained from imposing his wrath on the human race
And this would be saying that since the prince of this world is the devil then by the powers of this world or the powers of the devil was the devil restrained
since peace is the absence of murder and the devil is the murderer from the beginning
This is what the blasphemy of the holy spirit is most likely to be
This thing could only be the great apostasy which historically will not be forgiven because it will be the most radical spitting in the face of God the most depraved rejection of God like the demons
Taking delight in hating God's goodness. Here's an example: https://crusadergal.substack.com/p/making-holy-the-mutilated
These Anglican women priests are offering blessings for transgender transitioning. The article continues: "If that wasnāt low enough, an entire custom liturgy has been invented, so that those who have decided to pretend to be the opposite sex can be celebrated publicly in the midst of an attempt at worshiping God. How one can claim to worship God at the same event where he denies the inherent nature of one of His children and encourages the mutilation thereof is beyond my understanding. Thatās an incongruent act, unless itās a different god that theyāre worshiping."
This seems to be another kind of sin against the Holy Spirit, if not all three Persons of the Trinity, rejecting God's goodness for one's own warped vision of creation that rejects the Creator's design. St. Thomas would have nothing good to say about these wicked women insulting God (as Creator, Redeemer and Sanctifier) for their own devious delight in the complex sin of transgenderism in deference to homosexuality.
So, the sin is enjoying sin for it's own sake. Like adulterers who would not leave a 3rd wife for a life of celibacy in order to receive Holy Communion again. Or anyone addicted to any sin. It seems they are already in an unforgivable conditon, however in time, they may come to repentance. The man dying in sin seems to have final unrepentance if he dies in that state since he cannot access a priest to confess to. I guess it is necessary to nit pick every sin because there is always Murphy's law working on all of us. Whatever can possibly go wrong - will.
So, the sin aginst the Holy Ghost is final impenitence?
Okay father I thank you for your response.
I would never want to presume the Saint Thomas Aquinas did not have the unfathomable wisdom that he had nor similarly Saint Augustine.
Nevertheless I would suggest a doctrine does develop and subsequently if Saint John Paul the second in modern times has taken aquinas's ideals and extended them into final impedance is not trying to denigrate aquinas's wisdom but to say that effectively what you are talking about that disposition must be taken unto death in order to be unforgivable because who knows maybe repentance is possible by the grace of God for example dearest same faustina talk to jesus's revelation that even unto the last millions of a second before death the heavenly father will call the sinner and say accept my mercy
And I still think that we can suggest an apocalyptic meaning because it makes good sense it really does and I can give you my article for a fuller argumentation if you like thank you and I'm sorry if I come across as up as antagonistic God bless you
Teachers of children would simplify by telling them, "The sin against the Holy Ghost (the Lord and giver of Life) is to deny and reject the known truth." We have the Church to declare the known truth Jesus taught when she uses the Creeds and Ex Cathedra pronouncements and all defined dogmas as the "known truth." A person may commit this sin, then repent of it. It is still a sin. But those who die in the state of rejection of known truth will take their place with the fallen angels who knew God and yet rejected their one chance at eternity with Him. My 7 children liked the simple answers!! Hope I'm right!
I can only respond with the thoughts of St. Thomas Aquinas, who argues to the contrary of your starting point and conclusion. In his Summa Theologiae, Second part of the second part, question 14, the angelic doctor tells us that blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is a specific sin of malice to which a sinner can be held accountable. As usual, he offers distinctions in his answer, in which he differs from St. Augustine, who thought malice was a sin against the Holy Spirit himself, the source of the remission of sin (which seems to be what this article here begins and ends in saying, a sin of final impenitence). But St. Thomas corrects this misunderstanding by clarifying what our Lord actually said. I quote:
Nor did Our LordĀ say this to the Jews, as though they had sinnedĀ 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 sinĀ against the Holy Ghost: and it is in this sense that we are to understand Mark 3:29-30, where after Our LordĀ had said: "But he that shall blasphemeĀ against the Holy Ghost," etc. the Evangelist adds, "because they said: He hath an uncleanĀ spirit."
Clearly, Jesus was not addressing the sin of final impenitence to the Jews who had not yet been complicit in such a sin. Rather, St. Thomas clarifies that blasphemy against the Holy Spirit entails taking pleasure in committing sin for its own sake. He refers to it as a "vicious habit" of hatred of God's goodness in forgiving sins. This is not the same as presumption and despair but it leads to those further sins by removing what might otherwise help the sinner to repent of his hatred of the Holy Spirit's goodness in forgiving sin. Again, I quote St. Thomas here: The Jews who Jesus accused of committing an unpardonable sin... "blasphemed against the Holy Ghost, when they ascribed to the prince of devils those works which Christ did by the power of His own Divine Nature and by the operation of the Holy Ghost."
The unpardonable sin was the malice of the Jews who ascribed to God the works of Satan. Such forethought was deliberate and intentional, although terribly mistaken, but the hatred of the Jews would not be pardoned because they themselves did not deem themselves in need of forgiveness. Maybe, one can hope, that upon realizing their plight, they did repent and convert. But in the meantime, St. Thomas explicitly notes he is not referring to some apocalyptic sin yet to be committed; for he agrees with Augustine that final impenitence can be committed not only through words but extends to thoughts and actions as well.
Part of the "un-pardon-ability" of this specific sin which despises God as the source of good--something only Satan and his spawn would do--is that it is a disposition to which one is habitually inclined as a way of thinking and living. It may take a bit of diving into Aquinas' thought to understand that by vice and virtue he means a habitual inclination towards evil or good, which is part of the horror of sin in the first place, namely, that it becomes entrenched in one's heart as a value and way of life. The Jews who rejected forgiveness of sin did so as a way of thinking and living; they wholeheartedly rejected that a person would need the Lord's forgiveness or that one could accept such forgiveness. Funny, because that is exactly what our Lord accused them of failing to do.