March 10, 200818 yr THE seven deadly sins have grown to at least 14 after the Vatican updated its 1400-year-old list of the worst moral failures to reflect the modern world. The new deadly sins that may lead to eternal darnation are polluting, genetic engineering, being obscenely rich, drug dealing, abortion, pedophilia and causing social injustice, The Times newspaper has reported. Quoting from Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, The Times reported that certain actions were so unholy that they needed to be deemed as “mortal sins” – not the less serious “venial sins”. The man in charge of examining confessions and indulgences for the Vatican, Monsignor Gianfranco Girotti, told the Vatican newspaper that priests should be aware of the “new” sins. “New sins have appeared on the horizon of humanity as a corollary of the unstoppable process of globalisation,” Monsignor Girotti said. “You offend God not only by stealing, blaspheming or coveting your neighbour’s wife – but also by ruining the environment, carrying out morally debatable scientific experiments, or allowing genetic manipulations which alter DNA or compromise embryos.” http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23348817-23109,00.html
March 10, 200818 yr This is why I'm not Catholic, I'm a firm believer that blasphemy is the only unforgivable sin according to the bible. God forgives all and with the exception of blasphemy I believe all sins are equal in the eyes of God.
March 10, 200818 yr Author Mortal sins are not unforgivable. So, Christ's sacrifice has limits on it?
March 10, 200818 yr This is why I'm not Catholic, I'm a firm believer that blasphemy is the only unforgivable sin according to the bible. God forgives all and with the exception of blasphemy I believe all sins are equal in the eyes of God. I disagree with this. Every sin is forgivable, even blasphemy. So, Christ's sacrifice has limits on it? What he said was that mortal sins are NOT UNFORGIVABLE, which makes them forgivable. Christ's sacrifice does not have limits.
March 10, 200818 yr Author I disagree with this. Every sin is forgivable, even blasphemy. What he said was that mortal sins are NOT UNFORGIVABLE, which makes them forgivable. Christ's sacrifice does not have limits. Gotcha. The two negatives make a positive thing had me confused.:confused::lol:
March 10, 200818 yr The main difference between mortal sins and venial sins is that if a person dies in mortal sin without repenting for it, we Catholics believe that he will go to hell. If they venial sins on their plate, then God will give them life. This is touched upon in 1 John 5:16-17 If anyone sees his brother sinning, if the sin is not deadly, he should pray to God and he will give him life. This is only for those whose sin is not deadly. There is such a thing as deadly sin, about which I do not say that you should pray. All wrongdoing is sin, but there is sin that is not deadly.
March 10, 200818 yr Sins are rightly evaluated according to their gravity. the distinction between mortal and venial sin, already evident in Scripture,129 became part of the tradition of the Church. It is corroborated by human experience. 1855 Mortal sin destroys charity in the heart of man by a grave violation of God's law; it turns man away from God, who is his ultimate end and his beatitude, by preferring an inferior good to him. Venial sin allows charity to subsist, even though it offends and wounds it. 1856 Mortal sin, by attacking the vital principle within us - that is, charity - necessitates a new initiative of God's mercy and a conversion of heart which is normally accomplished within the setting of the sacrament of reconciliation: When the will sets itself upon something that is of its nature incompatible with the charity that orients man toward his ultimate end, then the sin is mortal by its very object . . . whether it contradicts the love of God, such as blasphemy or perjury, or the love of neighbor, such as homicide or adultery.... But when the sinner's will is set upon something that of its nature involves a disorder, but is not opposed to the love of God and neighbor, such as thoughtless chatter or immoderate laughter and the like, such sins are venial.130 1857 For a sin to be mortal, three conditions must together be met: "Mortal sin is sin whose object is grave matter and which is also committed with full knowledge and deliberate consent."131 From the catechism 1866 Vices can be classified according to the virtues they oppose, or also be linked to the capital sins which Christian experience has distinguished, following St. John Cassian and St. Gregory the Great. They are called "capital" because they engender other sins, other vices.138 They are pride, avarice, envy, wrath, lust, gluttony, and sloth or acedia.
March 10, 200818 yr I'm not Catholic so I never have understood the seven deadly sins thing. To me Sin is Sin. The movie Seven was great though. Poor Gweneth.
March 10, 200818 yr I didnt read the article, but is this serious? They are really adding those 7 to the list? I cant believe that his is really serious.
March 11, 200818 yr So, the consensus is that sin is sin? There are no sins more serious than others? Murder isn't worse than lying?
March 11, 200818 yr So, the consensus is that sin is sin? There are no sins more serious than others? Murder isn't worse than lying? They each have a different consequence here on Earth! However, in God's eyes a sin is a sin is a sin.
March 11, 200818 yr They each have a different consequence here on Earth! However, in God's eyes a sin is a sin is a sin. You don't think God looks at murder differently than he does at, let's say, an ommission of truth?
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