Here is the unforgivable sin, the sin against the Holy Spirit

This subject of the sin against the Holy Spirit, or, the unforgivable sin, is fussed over too much, in terms of what it exactly is. Here is an example of it.

Marxist theorists who have real effect in the real world are an example of individuals who commit the unforgivable sin. This is because they have to KNOW THE TRUTH to effectively attack and undermine the truth. 

Many of these types are Jews as well which answers the conundrum regarding how it seems only the elect could commit the unforgivable sin. Yet the Bible says none of the elect will be lost. So what is it? This: Jews have a type of election. Not unto salvation, but in terms of their unique status of being the people chosen by God to represent and enact His plan of redemption in history. This also gives them insight into the truth (which they then suppress or deny). If they then go on to attack the truth they commit the sin that can't be forgiven.

They sin against the Holy Spirit, and there is nothing left after that for them. No Jesus, no Holy Spirit. Nothing.

Benedict Pictet

I haven't yet read it all, but I'm prepared to say that Benedict Pictet's Christian Theology is perhaps the best overall systematic theology in existence.

Of course all the great Reformed, Calvinist STs give roughly the same doctrine, in different styles and to different degree of depth or conciseness, but Pictet seems to me to be right in the golden mean of overall depth, especially if you are at the point of using a theological work for meditation and prayer and devotion. 

It's only available in eBook at Monergism.com. That I know of. 

It's a summation of the true Genevan school of Calvin. Maybe the final work of that school. I know Turretin is thought of as that, but I'm not saying Pictet is the last word in theology. Bavinck, a Brakel, Vos, Turretin, etc., just if you're looking for a one volume summation that is old path, complete, basic, and gives evocative yet plain prose for meditation and memory of doctrine I think it's perhaps the best I've seen.

Ultimately a simple, powerful Christian library should not be large. It should be able to fit on a small shelf. Our days are numbered. 

Something Protestants don't admit

One thing that Reformation era type Protestants don't recognize or don't admit is how mystical we are compared to the other branches. I mean we spiritualize the church, and we spiritualize the sacraments. I do it to more of an extreme, but all historic, classical Protestants do it to some degree. I think, obviously, that it's legitimate, because for such Protestants regeneration is the main thing. Regeneration by the word and the Spirit.