Why are pride, covetousness and lust deadly sins according to Christians?
This should really be three questions, but I figure I’ll get the same responses anyway.
Why shouldn’t we be proud of what we do? What is wrong with pride?
Why is covetousness so wrong? How is wanting to possess something evil?
Why is lust a deadly sin? Without lust humanity wouldn’t exist. In fact, pretty much every animal species would die out, simply because they would not reproduce.
Can anyone answer these questions?
1) Why are pride, covetousness and lust deadly sins according to Christians?
Well…first, the "7 Deadly Sins" is a teaching that is an ancient tradition of Christianity – not a *very* ancient tradition, either. We can, to some degree, point out who is responsible for the teaching (and it was created centuries after the time of Jesus). So – you can think of the 7 Deadly Sins as a sort of "add on" to Christian doctrine – a "rider".
Second, the 7 deadly sins – all of them – describe desires or emotions that *lead* to sin (as in the Bible, sin is always described as an *action*, not an *emotion*). Someone who *displays* these emotions has probably already acted on them. The 7 deadly sins is actually – in my opinion – a pretty interesting teaching. It vilifies those emotions most often excused by those who indulge in them as not sinful. Example: pride is human vanity; feeling pride is not a sin, but *displaying* pride is, as we are mere humans and all that we are capable of accomplishing
* can be out-done by another human
* is a gift of God anyway – not really a talent or ability that we created within ourselves, but one given by God that we worked toward or trained ourselves. We are simply using what God gave us – not doing anything wonderful from the point of view of eternity. SO – the display of pride is almost always an act of sin, a valuing of ourselves above our actual worth.
But more to my point: in the time that the 7 deadly sins were first being widely disseminated, pride was commonly taught to be a *virtue*. Nobles and soldiers and the average man were taught that their pride – personal and family – was extremely important, and the preservation of that pride worth fighting and killing. The 7 Deadly Sins all address such cultural norms: they identify as sins those things that, for centuries, were considered by *cultural standards* to be virtues.
You can see how this applies to covetousness ("When you know what you want, go get it" still commonly taught in our culture); and lust (obviously still very much approved by modern culture). The 7 Deadly Sins can be summed up as "These are things that the world teaches are virtues, but that God teaches are vices. Do not be fooled into spending your life pursuing and satisfying these false virtues".
Jim, http://www.bible-reviews.com/
There is no lust in marriage.
Proverbs 5:18-19 (King James Version)
18Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
19Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.
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I think by pride they mean like, too proud to say your sorry. too proud to admit you ewre wrong etc. etc.
idk about that long word that I really dont feel like spelling right now.
as for lusht: it is because a whole bunch of old men who wanted to give their brides away and noone would take them if they were all ‘used" wrote the bible. end of story.
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The ’sins’ themselves aren’t actually an issue in themselves. The real problem is when they’re in excess.
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Those are not deadly but capital sins
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1) Why are pride, covetousness and lust deadly sins according to Christians?
Well…first, the "7 Deadly Sins" is a teaching that is an ancient tradition of Christianity – not a *very* ancient tradition, either. We can, to some degree, point out who is responsible for the teaching (and it was created centuries after the time of Jesus). So – you can think of the 7 Deadly Sins as a sort of "add on" to Christian doctrine – a "rider".
Second, the 7 deadly sins – all of them – describe desires or emotions that *lead* to sin (as in the Bible, sin is always described as an *action*, not an *emotion*). Someone who *displays* these emotions has probably already acted on them. The 7 deadly sins is actually – in my opinion – a pretty interesting teaching. It vilifies those emotions most often excused by those who indulge in them as not sinful. Example: pride is human vanity; feeling pride is not a sin, but *displaying* pride is, as we are mere humans and all that we are capable of accomplishing
* can be out-done by another human
* is a gift of God anyway – not really a talent or ability that we created within ourselves, but one given by God that we worked toward or trained ourselves. We are simply using what God gave us – not doing anything wonderful from the point of view of eternity. SO – the display of pride is almost always an act of sin, a valuing of ourselves above our actual worth.
But more to my point: in the time that the 7 deadly sins were first being widely disseminated, pride was commonly taught to be a *virtue*. Nobles and soldiers and the average man were taught that their pride – personal and family – was extremely important, and the preservation of that pride worth fighting and killing. The 7 Deadly Sins all address such cultural norms: they identify as sins those things that, for centuries, were considered by *cultural standards* to be virtues.
You can see how this applies to covetousness ("When you know what you want, go get it" still commonly taught in our culture); and lust (obviously still very much approved by modern culture). The 7 Deadly Sins can be summed up as "These are things that the world teaches are virtues, but that God teaches are vices. Do not be fooled into spending your life pursuing and satisfying these false virtues".
Jim, http://www.bible-reviews.com/
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