“You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you. (Acts 7:51, RSV2CE)
The reason we do not obey is we are resisting the Holy Spirit? Everyone everywhere except select few?
the sin against the Holy Spirit is the deliberate refusal to accept God’s mercy, a hardness of heart that can lead to final impenitence and eternal loss
interior resistance…a state of mind…fixed by a free choice,” often called a hardness of heart4. He adds that the same refusal is the essence of the unforgivable sin because it rejects the Spirit’s “convincing concerning sin” and the possibility of conversion.
The Church teaches that the Spirit continually offers grace to all; many respond with conversion, prayer, and obedience (CCC 2744)7. Thus, while the Spirit’s invitation is universal, the resistance is not: it is found in those who, by choice or habit, block that invitation
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