SINS

• CCC 1849

  • Sin is an offense against reason, truth, and right conscience.
  • Sin is an offense against God (Psalms 51:4; Genesis 3:5; Philemon 2:6-9.)
• THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF SINS

  St Paul to Galatians 5:19-21 

  fornication, impurity, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger, selfishness, dissension, factions, envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like.

  I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God.
• Works of the Flesh

  • Adultery
  • Fornication
  • Uncleanness
  • Lasciviousness
• Adultery


  Illicit sex relations on the part of those who are married
• Fornication


  Illicit sexual relations among the unmarried
• Uncleanness


  Those who may not necessarily commit outward acts of immorality, but whose thoughts and desires are unclean
• Lasciviousness


  Uncontrolled lust. Individuals can be guilty of uncleanness, but when they become lascivious, they become so immoral that they shock public decency by their conduct
• Sins of Idolatry


  • Idolatry
  • Witchcraft
• Idolatry


  The act of giving something other than the true and living God, the principal place in our affections
• Witchcraft


  Refers to those who claim to have superhuman powers, abilities to cause spells, to use magic, and to attain secret knowledge gleaned from evil spirits
• THE GRAVITY OF SIN: MORTAL AND VENIAL SIN

  The distinction between mortal and venial sin, already evident in Scripture (1 John 16-17).

  1. Mortal sin destroys charity in the heart of man by a grave violation of God's law; it turns man away from God, by preferring an inferior good to him.
  2. Venial sin allows charity to subsist, even though it offends and wounds it.
• Sins of Hostility


  • Hatred
  • Variance
  • Emulations
  • Seditions
  • Heresies
  • Envyings
  • Murders
• Hatred


  A strong dislike (a feeling of ill-will) toward another person
• Variance


  Disputes and quarrels that cause discord among brethren
• Emulations


  Those who desire to surpass others. The Greek word, zelos, can denote both good and bad qualities
• Seditions


  Divisions. Any kind of commotion within the church that causes what is commonly known as "church splits"
• Heresies


  Ideas (schools of thought) that are contrary to the accepted fundamental historic doctrines of the Christian faith
• Envyings


  Resentful desire for another's possessions or advantages
• Murders


  Snuffing out a human life involves more than sticking a knife into another person
• Mortal sin


  Sin whose object is grave matter and which is also committed with full knowledge and deliberate consent
• Conditions for a sin to be mortal

  1. Grave matter

  2. Full knowledge

  3. Deliberate consent
• Sins of Intemperance


  • Drunkenness
  • Revellings
• Mortal sin requires: full knowledge and complete consent
• Drunkenness


  A condition caused by drinking alcoholic beverages
• Feigned ignorance and hardness of heart


  Do not diminish, but rather increase, the voluntary character of a sin
• Revellings


  Carousing and debauchery. Wild parties and horsing around
• Unintentional ignorance


  Can diminish or even remove the imputability of a grave offense
• No one is deemed to be ignorant of the principles of the moral law, which are written in the conscience of every man
• Sin committed through malice, by deliberate choice of evil

  The gravest
• Effects of Mortal Sin

  • It results in the loss of charity and the privation of sanctifying grace, that is, of the state of grace.
  • If not forgiven, it causes exclusion from Christ's kingdom and the eternal death of hell, for our freedom has the power to make choices for ever, with no turning back. (CCC 1861)
• VENIAL SIN

  • a less serious matter,he does not observe the standard prescribed by the moral law, or when he disobeys the moral law in a grave matter, but without full

  knowledge or without complete consent.
• Effects of Venial Sin

  • Venial sin weakens charity;
  • it manifests a disordered affection for created goods;
  • it impedes the soul's progress in the exercise of the virtues and the practice of the moral good;
  • it merits temporal punishment.
  • Deliberate and unrepented venial sin disposes us little by little to commit mortal sin.
  • "Venial sin does not deprive the sinner of sanctifying grace, friendship with God, charity, and consequently eternal happiness.”
• St Augustine said of venial sins:

  “While he is in the flesh, man cannot help but have at least some light sins. But do not despise these sins which we call "light": if you take them for light when you weigh them, tremble when you count them. A number of light objects makes a great mass; a number of drops fills a river; a number of grains makes a heap.
• What then is our hope? ABOVE ALL,

  CONFESSION.
• WHAT ARE THE UNFORGIVABLE SINS?

  31 And so I tell you, every kind of sin and slander can be forgiven, but blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. 32 Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the

  age to come. (Mark 3:29; Luke 12:10.)
• Deadly Sins

  • They are pride, avarice, envy, wrath, lust, gluttony, and sloth. (1866)
  • They are called "capital" because they engender other sins, other vices.
  • Sin tends to reproduce itself and reinforce itself, but it cannot destroy the moral sense at its root.
  • Vices can be classified according to the virtues they oppose
• Sins that Cry to Heaven

  1. the blood of Abel (Gen 4:10)
  2. the sin of the Sodomites, (Gen 18:20)
  3. the cry of the people oppressed in Egypt (Ex 3:7-10)
  4. the cry of the foreigner, the widow, and the orphan, (Ex 20:20-22)
  5. injustice to the wage earner (Deut 24:14-15; Jame
• Decalogue

  • From two Greek words deka and logoi which literally means “ten” “words.”
  • “decalogue” was first used by Clement of Alexandria in the 2nd Century, and its  designation can be traced first to Exodus 34:28, and later in Deuteronomy 4:13, and 10:4.
  • It means covenant or treaty and law. Still commandment is commonly used.
• First Commandment

  “I am the Lord your God… you shall have no other gods before me.” Exodus 20:2-6
• First Commandment

  “I am the Lord your God… you shall have no other gods before me.” Exodus 20:2-6

  • The identification of YHWH as a jealous God points to a mutually exclusive relationship between two parties, best depicted in the metaphor of a monogamous marriage
  • The moral value of the First commandment is about God’s mercy and hesed.