Matthew 12:31 (ESV-CE): 31 Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven people, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven.
EVERY SIN WILL BE FORGIVEN!
Why is blasphemy against the Holy Spirit unforgivable?
St. Thomas Aquinas replies that it is a question of a sin that is "unforgivable by its very nature, insofar as it excludes the elements through which the forgiveness of sin takes place.
Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is the sin of rejecting the intimate giver of a genuine conversion he brings about in the conscience. This causes non-repentance.
It is the radical refusal and rejection to accept conversion, salvation, redemption, and the forgiveness of his sin, which God offers to man through the Holy Spirit, working through the power of the Cross.
It is the sin committed by the person who claims to have a "right" to persist in evil-in any sin at all-and who thus rejects Redemption. (Or believe that what you do is not evil or sin even though God declares it so.)
There are no limits to the mercy of God, but anyone who deliberately refuses to accept his mercy by repenting, rejects the forgiveness of his sins and the salvation offered by the Holy Spirit.
If you do not listen to the Holy Spirit and repent during your life as a lifestyle, hardness of heart can lead to final impenitence and eternal loss.
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