Gosh, I really do disagree with you. I’ve felt despair in my life. I’m Bipolar. Despair is a feeling that obliterates you. It destroys. When faced with this feeling, this horrible horrible situation, it’s what I choose to do that is the sin. God does not make a feeling a sin; it’s how the sinner reacts to the feeling that is the sin. Guess we’ll have to agree to disagree. God Bless.
You are using the term in a different way. Everything I wrote was about how one reacts to feelings, not about medically caused feelings. That was my WHOLE point: hope is not a feeling and lack of hope is not a feeling. It’s a choice.
What you feel at the worst is not lack of hope and it is NOT despair. You call it despair but you are using the term that MUST by its etymology mean a matter of choice (since hope is a matter of choice—you can choose to hope even when you FEEL “hopeless”—using hope in a different sence).
We are saying the same thing about choice versus hopeless feelings. But since you wish to apply “despair” to a matter of feelings, you think you disagree.