I just re-read John's post, and realized there was a question at the end that I'd missed:
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If we can not separate the humanity and deity of Jesus. How is it Jesus said to blaspheme Him is something that can be forgiven but to blaspheme the Holy Spirit is the unforgivable sin???????????????????????????????
As KennySe said, good question. I've been puzzled by quotes like that. There is also Jesus' statement about the time of the end of the world:
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Matthew 24:36

"But about that day and hour no one knows, neither the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father."
The Father knows the time because He is God. Jesus is God, but He doesn't know?

I believe that Jesus, being human as well as God, had to keep learning throughout His life. Perhaps His Father didn't tell him everything at once, but revealed it little by little.

But Jesus is God, as is the Father. Does that make sense? Wouldn't He already know it without having to learn it?

We really can't understand the full mystery of the Trinity. Jesus had to learn to walk and talk as a child. He's God, wouldn't He already know that? I've heard that some theologians believe Jesus didn't even know He was God until He was twelve and in the Temple while His parents were frantically searching for Him.

Our souls surely know God, yearn for Him. Yet many people don't believe in God. Yet they search for the meaning of life. That's because they're going against their own nature, in refusing to believe in Something that part of them, their soul, knows exists.

That must be the way it was with Jesus. God knew, but He - God and man - had to learn as God revealed Himself to Him. I know, it's weird. The Trinity is weird, to our limited logical minds.

By the time Jesus said that it was forgivable to blaspheme Him, but unforgivable to blaspheme the Holy Spirit, He knew He was God. But He related to the humans around Him, and He was distinguishing between blaspheming a human and blaspheming God. Most of the people listening didn't yet know He was God - many thought He was the messiah, but they didn't expect the messiah to be divine. If Jesus had said, "You can blaspheme each other, but don't dare blaspheme Me or the Holy Spirit," they would have missed the point entirely.

About the Father knowing when the end will come, but the Son not knowing - perhaps at the time He really didn't know. Perhaps that was information that the Father hadn't given Him yet, in that mysterious way we can't understand. We can just try to relate by seeing how our body greatly overpowers our soul, in appearance anyway, in our lives.

Radar