advice many times since. As for those Christians fearful that they have committed the sin of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit—and I have met some who have been—there is great wisdom in the old advice that those troubled about committing this sin are the least likely to have committed it. For example, Louis Berkhof, writing as a Calvinist theologian, argues: “We may be reasonably sure that they who fear that they have committed it and worry about this, and who desire the prayers of others for them,