To Christians - Is this true?
Well, i don't know how biblical this is, but the Adventists say this: http://www.amazingfacts.org/media/radio/... "Eventually, a person loses the capacity to repent" You know how after you do something that hurts life, you regret it? That's the start of true repentance. Doing evil without any remorse and the conscious not telling you otherwise is part of the unpardonable sin. Not wanting to believe that there is something better than living with a miserable attitude. Hypocrisy can come with it, like from the Pharisees. The Holy Spirit is an influence of goodness that you may invite or cast out with your attitude, but the unpardonable sin is when you never want it back. My belief is that you don't have to know God exists to have the Holy Spirit. Note: I really should go find biblical support. There is a 2 part sermon about it if you're interested in it: http://www.amazingfacts.org/media/everla... My belief is that if you still have compassion, you couldn't have committed the unpardonable sin. If you worry that you committed it, you haven't. Committing it requires that you have no guilt, remorse, worry, etc when you do something wrong. in fact, you would think it's right to humiliate others if you committed it. The answer is that God can erase you from existance because eternal life would be miserable for someone who finds hurting life a good thing. Only true Sadists get the quenching fire which will cleanse the Earth so that it becomes the New Earth. Oh wait, you know what I'm saying because you know i'm an Adventist. We belive the soul is the entire being which happens to be physical. It can be immortalized by God so that it can be as a spirit. Spirits can be unimmortalized, such as Satan and his demons. They can masuqerade as dead loved one's and perhaps real aliens, but they twist the truth. If there were aliens, they would tell us of their creator. That's my opinion. This was an excellent question.
What is a true Christian denomination?
In my evaluation, none are completely right. Protestant denominations were initially divided by reason of differences of interpretation of Scripture in areas NOT considered core Christian doctrine and where there is not clear understanding or a mystery. Rather than accept there is mystery, they claimed one side or the other and made a new denomination. A pity. They are also divided by reason of governing styles and worship styles.If you at looking for sincerity, choose a church that teaches the Bible as being written with and having authority. Find one that studies using good techniques for any literature, not one that wants to claim biblical history or instruction is symbolic or a myth. Look for church members that talk about God and the Bible outside the church's four walls. Ask for a copy of their statement of faith. These are the essentials. Among the ones that meet the essentials, try to find one worship style that is not uncomfortable for you. Attend for at least a year to get established...be involved, not a spectator.Some denominations that are more known to be Word-centered are Baptist (Southern), Presbyterian (PCA, EPC, Reformed), Evangelical Free Churches, and some full-gospel (Pentecostal). But still, not all congregations will meet the essentials. Liberal denominations that have drifted off the authority of Scripture are on the decline in a big way. But you can still sometimes find individual congregations within those denominations that have not drifted off course.ADDED: The saying among Christians is "In the essentials, unity; in the nonessential, grace." That means a true Christian church must agree on the essential doctrine, most of which is encapsulated in the Apostles Creed. Religions like Mormonism, New Age, Jehovah's Witness, etc. believe something about Jesus but they are not accepted as a Christian by the larger Christian community. That is because they have doctrine that violates what is considered essentials of the Christian faith and/or claim the divine authority of texts outside of the Bible and/or use a Bible whose translation is not accepted as accurate by knowledgeable Christian theologians.
Dante's true christian belief?
Because one should not always believe in everything that the Church says. The Catholic Church, as an institution, is a result of a lot of history of violence and corruption in that even most of it's doctrines were not created out of plain faith but to serve the greedy designs of its leaders. A true Christian believes in the image of a God that the Church did not impose, a God that he finds through meditation and personal contemplation, a God that does not need a Church to administer one's faith--and the Catholic Church won't like those things from their followers.