Posted on 04/01/2019 8:22:09 AM PDT by Salvation
Monsignor Pope Ping!
The nature of man is to want to categorize things. It empowers us. God did let man name the animals.
But truly, ARE NOT ALL SINS DEADLY?
Well done. This approach can actually help people to train themselves not to harm others or themselves.
I am a Buddhist and this Christian codex of sin you have posted is similar in form to the Buddhist Kalacakra or wheel of existence, which defines the result of negative actions , that cause suffering in others.
The awareness of one’s sin can only be expanded through the energy available from prayer or the touch of the holy spirit itself, allowing a path to transcendence or forgiveness.
Powerful stuff. Thank you.
I’ll take Lust for 1000 Alex.
The good Monsignor forgot that to balance the 7 Deadly Sins, there were also 7 Virtues:
-Chastity
-Temperance
-Charity
-Diligence
-Patience
-Gratitude
-Humility
It is valuable to name and begin to understand these deep drives of sin within us because the more we do so the more we can grow in self-knowledge. Further, it helps us to know their moves and gain mastery over them. As they stir deep within us we can recognize evidence of this and begin to take greater authority over them.
EIGHT virtues.
-Chastity
-Temperance
-Charity
-Diligence
-Patience
-Gratitude
-Humility
-Hittin’ it
Of course, Laz. How could I forget???
Sounds like your everyday Democrat.
Easy enough. Once the Democrats renounced God three times at their national convention, they adopted the cardinal sin of vanity, imagining themselves as equals of God. As it is in Hell, the other deadly sins flow from this poisoned well.
As such, Democrats faction themselves into groups favoring and advocating one or more of the deadly sins, and these became their party platforms.
When you think of a deadly sin, think of the Democrats that most embrace it. In their twisted world, our sins are their sacraments, and they wallow in them like pigs in filth.
Christians pray for their salvation. Democrats pray for the destruction of all.
Always worth revisiting. Thanks, Salvation!
The cornerstone of the Democrat party and the primary driving force of Democrat voters
Is this a caucus?
Maybe they are coming tomorrow.
For another overview see the Democratic party platform.
The eighth deadly sin -—
You vote a town dry and then move.
Envy is the mother of Communism.
Yes.
James 2:8-11 If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, You shall love your neighbor as yourself, you are doing well. But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors. For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it. For he who said, Do not commit adultery, also said, Do not murder. If you do not commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.
Because what matters is not the seriousness of the sin as categorized by humans to justify ourselves, but the One whom the sin is committed against.
The God who said *Do not murder* also said *Do not lie*.
We consider lying to not be as serious as murder, but it's still an affront to the same God who gave ALL the commandments.
It's not what the sin is, it's Who the sin is against.
Disobeying God is disobeying God be it what we consider a big sin or a little one.
And if we are willing to disobey Him in the *little* ones, then it's not much of a stretch to disobey Him in the *big* ones.
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