Satan's Arsenal: "The Seven Deadly Sins"

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[Salvation]

Satan's Arsenal"The Seven Deadly Sins"

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1)The SIN of PRIDE:
Pride is the "mother of all sins" and is the cause of every other sin. Pride is an excessive self-love.

Examples of Pride:
* Boasting
* Arrogance
* Inordinate exaltation of oneself
* The total rejection of the Catholic Church.
* Stating one is already saved.
* Picking and choosing Catholic teachings one wishes to follow.

2) The SIN of GREED:
Greed wants to get its " fair share" and much more.The unquenchable desire for money or material possessions.

Examples of Greed:
* The love of money
* Obsessive consumerism
* Living beyond ones means
* Mothers & Fathers who neglect the responsibilities of family in pursuit of money or career.

3) The SIN of ENVY:
Envy resents the good others receive or even might receive. Envy also delights when misfortune strikes another.

Examples of Envy:
* Joy at another’s misfortune
* The envy of another's spiritual life.
* Desire the possessions of someone else.

4) The SIN of ANGER:
Anger can be used to abuse people and destroy things. It can also inwardly destroy the person who chooses to become angry. Such uses of anger are sinful. Anger that is honest and is directed for good and only toward those who are responsible for wrong doing is praiseworthy such as,when Christ was angry with the money lenders at the temple.

Examples of Anger:
* Anger with God
* Blasphemy in thought or deed
* Desiring the death of anyone.
* Harboring thoughts of hatred or revenge.

5) The SIN of LUST:
Any selfish sex devoid of the desire for procreation. Lustful thoughts and desires that are perverted. Finally, any sexual act outside the confines of marriage.

Examples of Lust:
* Adultery
* Fornication
* Pornography and immodest entertainment
* Masturbation
* Contraception
* Sodomy
* Homosexual Acts

6) The SIN of GLUTTONY:
Gluttony is the excessive love or abuse of food, drink, or drugs.

Examples of Gluttony:
* Intoxication or Drug Abuse
* Drinking or eating to an excessive degree
* Excessive preoccupation with gourmet food.
* The use of certain food or drink against the serious warnings of a doctor.

7) The SIN of SLOTH:
Spiritual and physical laziness. Sloth makes one selfish and self-centered.

Examples of Sloth:
* Failing to work when one is able.
* Spending useless time planted before the T.V. or computer.
* Too busy with material occupations to go to Mass, confess ones sins, or even pray.

[Salvation]

The only thing I didn't find there was deceit and lying. Would it go with pride?

[Salvation]

I know I have to work on the pride and being the person in control. (Rather than the servant as this last Sunday's Gospel admonished.)

[Salvation]

**I would assume these are mortal sins, or...?**

I think there are degrees. My understanding about a mortal sin is that I know it is a sin -- and I do it anyway -- ON PURPOSE!

[Salvation]

**"I am not worthy that You should come under my roof but only say the word and my soul will be saved."**

Won't that be nice to have the original translation back??

I am also looking forward to

"The Lord be with you,"

And with your spirit also" (Don't know if that is exactly how it will be, however.) Do you?

[Salvation]

You have very kind words there, GOP Poet.

[Salvation]

*** The total rejection of the Catholic Church. **

I think the word "total" is the key word here. I would dare say that most protestant churches believe in Jesus as the Risen Savior, so I can't be the judge about a "total" rejection. We would need to talk to a theologian and find out exactly what that whole phrase means.

[franky]

No. The US Bishops have forwarded the changes to Rome but no action as yet.

[murphE]

Um, I never heard Pope Innocent III nor Pope Eugene IV; as in listened to them speak.

Have you never heard any faithful priest reiterate this infallibly defined doctrine?

Please notice that these citations you give were made before there was any other Church.

There is still only one Church. Other groups that call themselves Christians are not technically churches.

All Catholics (or Christians), before the Great Enlightenment, believed that the Church was the body of Christ,

There were heretics and schismatics before the enlightenment. Infallibly defined doctrine by definition cannot change, it is true for all time.

[Salvation]

Bummers. Maybe we need to send them emails. LOL!

[William Terrell]

Ok, then you testify that being saved for eternal life has nothing to do with the Catholic church, it being just one of a number of the paths of Christ.

[LisaFab]

Have you never heard any faithful priest reiterate this infallibly defined doctrine?

Only as I have cited above. Have you ever heard a faithful priest say that those who have never been exposed to Catholic teaching cannot be saved? That was the nature of my first post to William Terrell.

[William Terrell]

It is not pride to believe, accept and profess truth.

But all that are prideful would say the same thing.

[HoosierHawk]

LOL!

[LisaFab]

Not what I said. Let's try it this way. As a Catholic, I believe that the Church is the body of Christ and therefore the only path to salvation.

But the Church teaches (and please note the use of the words "may," "can" and "possibility"):

People who have never had an opportunity to hear of Christ and his Church—and those Christians whose minds have been closed to the truth of the Church by their conditioning—are not necessarily cut off from God’s mercy. Vatican II phrases the doctrine in these terms:

Those who, through no fault of their own, do not know the gospel of Christ or his Church, but who nevertheless seek God with a sincere heart, and moved by grace, try in their actions to do his will as they know it through the dictates of their consciences—those too may achieve eternal salvation (LG 16).

Since Christ died for all, and since all men are in fact called to one and the same destiny, which is divine, we must hold that the Holy Spirit offers to all the possibility of being made partakers, in a way known to God, of the Paschal mystery (Gaudium et Spes 22).

The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches:

Every man who is ignorant of the gospel of Christ and of his Church but seeks the truth and does the will of God in accordance with his understanding of it can be saved. It may be supposed that such persons would have desired baptism explicitly if they had known its necessity (CCC 1260).

[Salvation]

Excellent!

[William Terrell]

I agree, the word is "total". However, not being in the Catholic church, chastising the Catholic church and refusing to join into or accept that church's doctrine in ecclesiastical or temporal matters, would indicate "total", wouldn't it?

[murphE]

But all that are prideful would say the same thing.

But only those in error would be guilty of pride. Someone who is adamant that 2+2=4, who refuses to accept that 2+2 may also equal 5 is not guilty of pride.

P.S. I like your purple apple.

[Salvation]

I don't think so. But others may differ. Actually, God has the answer for you and for me; we will just have to wait until we die to find out. LOL!

[LisaFab]

Thanks for the ping! I love these threads and read them all the time.

[William Terrell]

So, you're saying that if I have heard of Christ and the existence and doctrine of the Catholic church, and I don't believe consciously, by careful consideration, that the Catholic church has the only truth and pathway, or has them at all, I am not saved?

The words of Vatican II you quote says no such thing, and mentions no church at all.