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So are you saying you don't believe the Bible? I thought you sola scriptura guys did. Guess I was wrong.

Here is an example of Christ's own worods from the Gospel of Mark: Can you find the capital sins in it?

Gospel Mk 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23

When the Pharisees with some scribes who had come from Jerusalem
gathered around Jesus,
they observed that some of his disciples ate their meals
with unclean, that is, unwashed, hands.
--For the Pharisees and, in fact, all Jews,
do not eat without carefully washing their hands,
keeping the tradition of the elders.
And on coming from the marketplace
they do not eat without purifying themselves.
And there are many other things that they have traditionally observed,
the purification of cups and jugs and kettles and beds. --
So the Pharisees and scribes questioned him,
"Why do your disciples not follow the tradition of the elders
but instead eat a meal with unclean hands?"
He responded,
"Well did Isaiah prophesy about you hypocrites, as it is written:
This people honors me with their lips,
but their hearts are far from me;
in vain do they worship me,
teaching as doctrines human precepts.
You disregard God's commandment but cling to human tradition."

He summoned the crowd again and said to them,
"Hear me, all of you, and understand.
Nothing that enters one from outside can defile that person;
but the things that come out from within are what defile.

"From within people, from their hearts,
come evil thoughts, unchastity, theft, murder,
adultery, greed, malice, deceit,
licentiousness, envy, blasphemy, arrogance, folly.
All these evils come from within and they defile."

Yes, I believe the Bible is the Word of God. The same Bible your organization suppressed for those many years.

It is so Roman Catholic to make a list of sins. And it belies the gross misunderstanding your group holds of the Gospel. If you think that these are the only sins, or that these are the worst (indicated by “capital”), then read the list Paul compiled in the letter to the Romans. There even “disobedience to parents” is included with murder.

Someday, I hope that you might be able to capture the picture of the Gospel painted throughout the NT. Not that born of tradition from Rome, but the real Gospel in the Bible. Paul decoded it for us, but Rome (along with the Judaizers) has misrepresented it for many, many years. You and I were dead in our trespasses and sin. If you are among the elect, then Christ has adopted you, made you alive, forgiven your sins and wrapped you in His holiness. He is not ashamed to call you “sister”. But, Rome does not factor into this grace. I pray you escape their clutches.