>>767819
My understanding of blaspheming the holy spirit is that it requires a person to openly and knowingly reject the spirit AFTER acknowledging it's full power and truth. It would be like a person who dies, meets God at the judgement throne, accepts the fact that Christ is Lord and that God rules everything, and then rejects eternal life and chooses to be separated from God.
Consider that there are many atheists who convert to Christianity and are accepted into Protestantism, Catholicism and Orthodoxy. I myself was a horrible atheist in my youth and spent many months fretting over this particular sin after my conversion. A priest told me that I should be reassured by the fact that I am worrying about the sin. Someone who blasphemes against the holy spirit would be unconcerned about the results and would not spend anytime feeling bad about turning away from God. They would enjoy rejecting God and would never turn back to him.
All of this is just theory, of course. But I think a priest would tell you something similar.