What does it mean to blaspheme the Holy Spirit?

And why did Jesus call that sin unforgivable?

Is the Holy Spirit a he or something else?

Should we pray to the Holy Spirit by name?

Or should we follow Jesus' example and only pray to the Father?

In my interview today, Professor Fred Sanders

answers these questions and more about the Holy Spirit.

Fred serves as Professor of Theology

at the Torrey Honors Institute at Biola University

and is the author of a number of books,

including The Holy Spirit and Introduction,

which is part of Crossway's short studies

and systematic theology series. Let's get

started. Well, Fred, thanks so much for joining me again on the Crossway podcast. Thanks for

having me. It's good to talk to you. Yeah, it's fun. We've discussed the Trinity in a previous

episode a couple years ago now, and today we're going to dig into the Holy Spirit.

First question that I think might strike some as a silly question perhaps or a weird question, but I actually think, I've heard people say this, it's a question that a lot of average normal Christians would actually have at some

point and would wonder how to answer. Is the Holy Spirit a he, a she, an it, or something else?

How should we refer to the Holy Spirit? Yeah. Yeah, it's a good question. And this is a,

I think this is an area where you can trust your English Bible translation

and go with he.

So that, for most people, that's kind of a common sense.

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