There you go again getting personal and pretending to be God. Man's first sin was to want to be like God, and eat the fruit of knowledge. Who gave you universal knowledge? My priest doesn't even dare get so sactimoneous with "sinners".
Man's second greatest sin, was to want to destroy his brother. Why don't you worry about yourself and defend your own beliefs, instead of attacking and slandering others.
You use all these wierd notions, like "the magesterium" etc. I don't even know what your talking about, and niether do you.
Like I said, that behavior is a terrible reflection on your faith. No wonder so many people are turned off against religion.
Hey. You forgot the most important part -- that the forbidden fruit was from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. I don't see any prohibitions on eating fruit from the tree of knowledge of, say, math, or music, or geography, or history, or writing.
It is the sorry state of the Roman Catholic church which tells its members that confidence in Christ's word and God's providence is presumption. Thankfully, Paul did not suffer under the lies of Trent.
"For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day." -- 2 Timothy 1:12
Read your Bible and learn of God's everlasting promise.
But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. I and my Father are one." -- John 10:25-30 "Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me.
It's really too bad you believe such Scriptural assurance is "sanctimony." Whoever is telling you that is not telling you the truth.