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"this world" is the pre-Acts-2 world where Jesus is physically walking
around on earth (before His body became the church ), and "the world to
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come" is the Millennium (Revelation 20:4).

[Footnote 9: The Universal Church, in distinction from local churches. The
"church" which is "the body of Christ" cannot be a local church. 1
Corinthians 12:13a "For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body,
whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free..." We're
baptized into the "body" by the Holy Spirit, not a man in a baptistry with
water. Galatians 3:27-28 "For as many of you as have been baptized into
Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is
neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all

one in Christ Jesus." There IS male and female in a LOCAL church, so the
"body of Christ" can't just be a metaphor for an assembly of physical
bodies. The "body of Christ" is a universal church, which is a literal
supernatural body composed of all born-again believers. This is not
antithetical to the definition of a "called-out assembly" just because all saved
people are not in the same physical building. They are assembled IN THE
BODY of Christ, which we know is "big" enough to encompass all saved

people, since Christ "filleth all in all" (Ephesians 1:23) and is holding the
entire universe together (Colossians 1:16-17).]

The "world" BETWEEN those two worlds is the Church Age, where Jesus is
present spiritually but not physically, and in which we are told that "by him
all that believe are justified from all things" (Acts 13:39). (Note the way
the word "world" is used in 2 Peter 2:5.)

Blasphemy of the Holy Ghost cannot be unforgivable today, because if it
was, that would contradict Ephesians 2:8-9 (which says we're saved "by
grace...through faith" and "Not of works"), because being careful to avoid
blaspheming the Holy Ghost IS WORKS.

If the person you're talking to (lost or saved) is still not convinced, as a last
resort, to relieve their fears, you could argue that even if Jesus' statement on

"the blasphemy of the Holy Ghost" applies today, God would likely make an
exception for accidental blasphemy.