Is California leading the way again... ?
I hope the priest hasn’t committed a mortal sin, but I have trouble believing the rest of us haven’t committed a mortal sin.
I agree with this. Too many people equate sin assessment with some sort of criminal conviction or bill coming due. But God is neither a cop, an administrative judge nor an accountant. He will forgive a lifetime of sin in exchange for one single genuine tear of heartfelt repentance.
That’s why Jesus says that even to those who did everything in His name, including casting out demons, will be subject to Him saying “I know you not.” That’s also why when people judge each others souls I just shake my head - it’s like listening to children bicker on a playground.
There is no list to fulfill to get to God. God looks at the heart alone, and words are irrelevant. As they say, fools rush in where angels fear to tred. Love is the path to God - the only path. Words are dust, and the toys of frauds.
In my opinion.
Interesting article. I am not a Catholic, but I sometimes wonder if some of the things I did were “mortal.” When I did them, I knew that they were wrong and the Bible would say so as well, but I didn’t care. I wasn’t sure if I even believed in God, so I errored on the side of stupid. But Now, I am unhappy that I did them and asked for forgiveness.
what !?!
this is the biggest pile of manure I have ever read.
So ... according to this guy, you could murder millions, but as long as you thought that was ok you didn’t commit a mortal sin!
Many people think that a mortal sin is a sin that is so heinous that even God can’t or won’t forgive it. That’s absurd. And it’s certainly not Catholic teaching.
For a sin to be mortal, it must be grave matter, the sinner has to know it’s grave matter, and do it freely.
Of course, any sin at all, mortal or venial, even the murder of millions of people, can be forgiven.
It’s easy to commit a mortal sin. Unfortunately I know from sad experience. But I also know the joy of living in God’s forgiveness. And the more mortal sins you commit, the easier it is to commit others.
It’s not hard to understand if you look at sin from the viewpoint of love. When we offend our spouse by failing to do something small they’ve asked us to do, it may annoy them, and perhaps even annoy them a lot. But it doesn’t fundamentally rupture the relationship. It may not even require an explicit apology on our part for them to forgive us, although a sincere apology certainly would be a good thing.
On the other hand, if we were to commit adultery, well, that’s another story. The relationship has been severed in a very fundamental way. It’s more than just a really bad little thing. It’s fundamentally broken. And if we persist in that state without a sincere expression of deep sorrow, and a commitment never to do it again, and to work through the damage that we’ve caused to our relationship, then we have basically cut ourselves off from our spouse’s love.
It’s the same with God. If we cut ourselves off from His love, and persist in that state until we die, then we will go to hell. We will experience eternal death. That’s why it’s called “mortal sin.”
This reads like Jim Comey taking a stab at explaining sinning.
What is this drivel, ebb tide?! LOL!
I know the OT animal sacrifice system distinguished between intentional sins and unintentional sins (Lev 4), but when Jesus went to the cross, He paid the price for all sin for all time (1 Pet 3:18).
Thus there is only one sin that remains, failure to accept Jesus as Savior (John 3:19). If you fail to accept Jesus, then you are judged for the evil you have done, and you will suffer the second death. But if you accept Jesus, you have from judgement to eternal life. You have been perfected because your sins have been paid for. "Rom 4:8 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin." "If the Son shall set you free, then you shall be free indeed."
Now if I sin, having accepted Jesus, my salvation is not at stake. "For I know whom I have believed and am confident that He is able to keep that which I've committed unto him against that day."
But the Lord does chastise those whom he loves (Heb 12:6). Paul asks the question, "Rom 6:1 Should we sin so that grace shall abound? Heaven forbid!" But the amazing truth is that grace would indeed abound. Chastisement would likely abound too! But salvation and eternal life is no longer at stake.
We wound ourselves with every act and drive ourselves further away from God.
Slowly we perish like a plant deprived of the sun.
Romans 3:23
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Romans 6:23
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 5:8
8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
1 John 2:1
My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have an advocate with the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.
John 3:36
Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on them.
1 John 5:11,12
And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.
Adultery...thinking about adultery?
Covet...thinking about coveting?
Idolatry....practicing idolatry?
Any of these are sins. The first two I dare say the vast majority of people commit sometimes without realizing they have done so.
The catholic commits idolatry with the worship of Mary though the catholic redefines worship and a whole bunch of other terms to deny their actions.
Based on the word, these are sins and all sin leads to death apart from Christ.
Christ forgives all sin. There is no distinction between "venial" and "mortal" sin in Christianity.
Matthew 7: 13-14.
I’m in big trouble then. God help me.