Satan's Arsenal: "The Seven Deadly Sins"

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[Salvation]

Satan's Arsenal"The Seven Deadly Sins"

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1)The SIN of PRIDE:
Pride is the "mother of all sins" and is the cause of every other sin. Pride is an excessive self-love.

Examples of Pride:
* Boasting
* Arrogance
* Inordinate exaltation of oneself
* The total rejection of the Catholic Church.
* Stating one is already saved.
* Picking and choosing Catholic teachings one wishes to follow.

2) The SIN of GREED:
Greed wants to get its " fair share" and much more.The unquenchable desire for money or material possessions.

Examples of Greed:
* The love of money
* Obsessive consumerism
* Living beyond ones means
* Mothers & Fathers who neglect the responsibilities of family in pursuit of money or career.

3) The SIN of ENVY:
Envy resents the good others receive or even might receive. Envy also delights when misfortune strikes another.

Examples of Envy:
* Joy at another’s misfortune
* The envy of another's spiritual life.
* Desire the possessions of someone else.

4) The SIN of ANGER:
Anger can be used to abuse people and destroy things. It can also inwardly destroy the person who chooses to become angry. Such uses of anger are sinful. Anger that is honest and is directed for good and only toward those who are responsible for wrong doing is praiseworthy such as,when Christ was angry with the money lenders at the temple.

Examples of Anger:
* Anger with God
* Blasphemy in thought or deed
* Desiring the death of anyone.
* Harboring thoughts of hatred or revenge.

5) The SIN of LUST:
Any selfish sex devoid of the desire for procreation. Lustful thoughts and desires that are perverted. Finally, any sexual act outside the confines of marriage.

Examples of Lust:
* Adultery
* Fornication
* Pornography and immodest entertainment
* Masturbation
* Contraception
* Sodomy
* Homosexual Acts

6) The SIN of GLUTTONY:
Gluttony is the excessive love or abuse of food, drink, or drugs.

Examples of Gluttony:
* Intoxication or Drug Abuse
* Drinking or eating to an excessive degree
* Excessive preoccupation with gourmet food.
* The use of certain food or drink against the serious warnings of a doctor.

7) The SIN of SLOTH:
Spiritual and physical laziness. Sloth makes one selfish and self-centered.

Examples of Sloth:
* Failing to work when one is able.
* Spending useless time planted before the T.V. or computer.
* Too busy with material occupations to go to Mass, confess ones sins, or even pray.

[Nihil Obstat]

thanks for that list - it's made me decide to go to Confession after work

[trisham]

LOL!

[COBOL2Java]

thanks for that list - it's made me decide to go to Confession after work

Yes, a very good aid for an examination of conscience!

[tiki]

I can see at least 4 specific things I need to work on.

[tiki]

I think most people would come close to 0-7, it is in the human condition. The difference is, when someone realizes that something they have done is sinful that they apologize to God and try not to repeat the sin.

[technochick99]

So are these sins it is appropriate to mention in confession? I know in theory that venial sins need not be mentioned, but, I do get confused about what constitutes a mortal sin. I would assume these are mortal sins, or...?

[GOP Poet]

All prevalent in the secular world of today!

Yes. All prevalent in the secular world today and unfortunately a daily fight for this gal as well. Thanks for the reminder and posting of this. It is such a great reminder too about pride and how it is the starting point of so much sin.

Brings one to his or her knees, doesn't it?

Absolutely! :-). Thanks again Salvation!

[franky]

**"We are not worthy to receive you, but only say the word and we will be healed!"**

or soon to be:

"I am not worthy that You should come under my roof but only say the word and my soul will be saved."

[William Terrell]

1)The SIN of PRIDE:
Pride is the "mother of all sins" and is the cause of
every other sin. Pride is an excessive self-love.

Examples of Pride:
* Boasting
* Arrogance
* Inordinate exaltation of oneself
* The total rejection of the Catholic Church.
* Stating one is already saved.
* Picking and choosing Catholic teachings one wishes to follow.

So. Then, since PRIDE is the cause of all the other sins, all one has to do is become a Catholic, realize that the Catholic Church determines whether you are saved and follow all the teaching of the Catholic Church, then one is saved from all the other sins?

Yes, no?

[LisaFab]

The Church does not teach that it determines who is saved, but the way to salvation:

Salvation comes from God alone; but because we receive the life of faith through the Church, she is our mother: "We believe the Church as the mother of our new birth. and not in the Church as if she were the author of our salvation." Because she is our mother, she is also our teacher in the faith. (CCC: 169)

[William Terrell]

Says the same thing. Who are saved? Catholics, of course. How can the sin of PRIDE be alleviated by that which is suborned by the sin of PRIDE.

[LisaFab]

Once again, that is simply not true. I have never heard a Catholic priest state that any members of his flock "are" saved. Nor have I ever heard one state who can not be saved, vis a vis other Chrisians. There is no guarantee. We, like all Christians, hold fast to a promise and/or covenant that we will be saved if we pick up our crosses and follow Jesus. What that entails is a 500 year old question I have no desire to debate here and now. From the CCC (819):

[Furthermore,] many elements of sanctification and truth are found outside the visible confines of the Catholic Church: "the written Word of God; the life of grace; faith, hope and charity, with the other interior gifts of the Holy Spirit, as well as visible elements."

[murphE]

Nor have I ever heard one state who can not be saved, vis a vis other Christians.

"There is but one universal Church of the faithful, outside which no one at all is saved." (Pope Innocent III, Fourth Lateran Council, 1215.)

"The most Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and preaches that none of those existing outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans, but also Jews and heretics and schismatics, can have a share in life eternal; but that they will go into the eternal fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels, unless before death they are joined with Her; and that so important is the unity of this ecclesiastical body that only those remaining within this unity can profit by the sacraments of the Church unto salvation, and they alone can receive an eternal recompense for their fasts, their almsgivings, their other works of Christian piety and the duties of a Christian soldier. No one, let his almsgiving be as great as it may, no one, even if he pour out his blood for the Name of Christ, can be saved, unless he remain within the bosom and the unity of the Catholic Church." (Pope Eugene IV, the Bull Cantate Domino, 1441.)

This is infallible doctrine of the Church. Now you've heard it.

[Liberal Classic]

Spending useless time planted before the computer.

Aw, shucks.

[murphE]

Who are saved? Catholics, of course.

Only if they die in a state of grace.

How can the sin of PRIDE be alleviated by that which is suborned by the sin of PRIDE.

It is not pride to believe, accept and profess truth.

[Salvation]

**Got your flame suit handy?**

My flame suit is on. I think most protestant churches accept some of the Catholic Church's teaching -- just not all of it.

So far it has turned out to be a very good thread, however.

[Salvation]

**Both Adam and Eve tried to blame everyone but themselves.**

The Catholic Church teaches that Adam and Eve were responsible for their own sin. I think that is what you were trying to say also? Correct?

[Salvation]

**it's made me decide to go to Confession after work**

I didn't mean for it to have that effect. Lord, forgive me. I was not preaching -- really!

[LisaFab]

Um, I never heard Pope Innocent III nor Pope Eugene IV; as in listened to them speak. Please notice that these citations you give were made before there was any other Church. All Catholics (or Christians), before the Great Enlightenment, believed that the Church was the body of Christ, (We believe that to this day) and that there is no other name under which we can be saved. And specifically that those who "know the gospel of Christ and his Church" (i.e. baptised Catholics) and then reject it, put their souls at risk.

Much better explanation of this here.

[Salvation]

**Yes, a very good aid for an examination of conscience!**

Yes, I thought of that myself -- because all the other sins fall under these in my opinion.