christians: Do the seven deadly sins apply to you?
If you’re a christian you try not to break the 10 commandments, but what about the seven deadly sins wrath, greed, sloth, pride, lust, envy, and gluttony? Do they apply to christians?
Thanks for answering:)
Romans 3:23 says we are all sinners, even Christians. So we are at least capable of every kind of sin, including the ones you mention. But for the record, the seven deadly sins are not biblical. In other words, they are not in the bible, per se. This list is of Catholic origin, having been created by Pope Gregory.
All sins are under-the-blood.
But the only sin that (non-)christians should be concerned with is: Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit (rejecting Christ).
But the ‘7′ sins are just categories. All sins can fall into 1 or more of them.
Some way, some how, I have an infraction in them daily.
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Most Christians are going to hell according to their own religion.
Haha.. ahahahaha
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yes they do.
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they all apply to my husband Boris. but the old brute is still worth ten of any christians
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According to those Satan has infected with the knowledge of good and evil, yes.
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There is not a single person in the world who has not broken the laws over and over again.
That is the point of why we need the Saviour and forgiveness and the new life of the Spirit.
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They don’t ‘apply’ to anyone in particular. They are a list of traditional sins.
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They certainly don’t apply to anyone else. Only the laws of the land apply. The Bible does not count.
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Actually the "seven deadly sins" aren’t even in the Bible but they are all still sins. Yes, if we adhere to the 10 commandments, we will not fall into the "7 deadly sins"— Even though ALL sins are ‘deadly’
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I’ll bet you’ll receive tons of bible quotes in a few moments.
Behold the power of the bible!
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It does not matter, they can commit thise sins (and more) coz they are already promised a place in heaven. Why do you think the world now is full of sinful things?
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These are the 7 deadly sins in my Bible.
Proverbs 6:16 There are six things the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to him: 17 haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, 18 a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil, 19 a false witness who pours out lies and a man who stirs up dissension among brothers.
I don’t think the Bible says that people who enjoy eating food are sinning (gluttony).
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Yes they should apply to Christians.
http://www.allaboutgod.com/what-are-the-seven-deadly-sins-faq.htm
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Romans 3:23 says we are all sinners, even Christians. So we are at least capable of every kind of sin, including the ones you mention. But for the record, the seven deadly sins are not biblical. In other words, they are not in the bible, per se. This list is of Catholic origin, having been created by Pope Gregory.
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If your a true Christian you’ll still have all the same temptations as anyone else but our sin has been paid for by Jesus and Him crucified. Now that doesn’t mean you have a pass to sin with out the repercussions. Once your saved by grace you wealth in heaven will be determined by your life on earth. Here read this.
"And be not conformed to this world." – Romans 12:2
If a Christian can by possibility be saved while he conforms to this world, at any rate it must be so as by fire. Such a bare salvation is almost as much to be dreaded as desired. Reader, would you wish to leave this world in the darkness of a desponding death bed, and enter heaven as a shipwrecked mariner climbs the rocks of his native country? then be worldly; be mixed up with Mammonites, and refuse to go without the camp bearing Christ’s reproach. But would you have a heaven below as well as a heaven above? Would you comprehend with all saints what are the heights and depths, and know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge? Would you receive an abundant entrance into the joy of your Lord? Then come ye out from among them, and be ye separate, and touch not the unclean thing. Would you attain the full assurance of faith? you cannot gain it while you commune with sinners. Would you flame with vehement love? Your love will be damped by the drenchings of godless society. You cannot become a great Christian–you may be a babe in grace, but you never can be a perfect man in Christ Jesus while you yield yourself to the worldly maxims and modes of business of men of the world. It is ill for an heir of heaven to be a great friend with the heirs of hell. It has a bad look when a courtier is too intimate with his king’s enemies. Even small inconsistencies are dangerous. Little thorns make great blisters, little moths destroy fine garments, and little frivolities and little rogueries will rob religion of a thousand joys. O professor, too little separated from sinners, you know not what you lose by your conformity to the world. It cuts the tendons of your strength, and makes you creep where you ought to run. Then, for your own comfort’s sake, and for the sake of your growth in grace, if you be a Christian, be a Christian, and be a marked and distinct one.
Read more: http://www.myspace.com/423352481/blog#ixzz12QzoPvQO
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You mean the "8 Tormenting Thoughts" The Original 8 were written by a Christian monk from Constantinople who traveled to Egypt to live alone in a cave and wrote up his list of thoughts that most tormented him in 375 AD. That the list was to be followed by Monks ONLY. No one paid him any heed until over 200 years later.
The actual, original list of “Thoughts” consisted of:
Pride, Gluttony, Lust, Sloth, Greed, Anger, Vain Glory, and Sadness.
Yeah… Sadness… So all of us diagnosed with Depression are really just being lead astray by the devil… Yeah…
It wasn’t until 200+ years later, after the fall of the Roman Empire, when the dark ages took hold in 590 AD and the “Official” church wanted iron fisted control over “Official” Christianity that the list was written by the “Reformer Pope” Gregory The Great.
That list was then taken by The Reformer Pope Gregory the Great and altered to "The Seven Deadly Sins" and "Seven Heavenly Virtues" that are nowhere found in the bible…
Though found no where in the bible… This guy wrote them up and published them and they became part of the Christian Doctrine.
The “Official” 7 Sins written by the “Reformer Pope” Gregory The Great:
Lust, Envy, Gluttony, Sloth, Greed, Anger, & Pride.
Did you also know that just THINKING about these sins means that you have actually committed the act? And that by committing the act, you are sentenced to hell?
Do you even know what the Seven Heavenly Virtues are? What they stand for?
Chastity
Liberality
Kindness
Patience
Humility
Abstinence
Diligence
Does ANYONE that believes this stuff actually do their research and understand their own deluded belief structure?
It was also Gregory The Great that decided that Priests can’t get married or have legitimate offspring because he was trying to consolidate the power base of the Church and too much land, goods, and wealth was being taken out of the church’s hands when a priest died and his family inherited his property.
And surprise surprise surprise, it is only "The Church" that came up with this nonsense that can actually "Save You".
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http://www.nobeliefs.com/DarkBible/darkbible2.htm
The salvation doctrines of Christianity survived and flourished because they afforded the priesthood considerable power. The priests alone held the keys to salvation and could threaten the unbelievers with eternal punishment. Hence, in the evolution of Christianity in the last two thousand years with priests preying on human fears, the religion has demonstrated extraordinary powers of survival. Even without the priests, the various versions of the Bible have had more influence on the history of the world, in the minds of men than any other literature.
Unfortunately, the beliefs in Scripture produced the most violent actions against man in the history of humanity up to that time. The burning of competing Christian cults (called heretics) by early Christian churches acted as the seeds of violent atrocities against man. There later followed the destruction of Rome by the Christian Goths, and the secret pagan sacrifices consented by the Pope, the Vandals that had the Bible with them as they destroyed imperial North Africa, the crusades in the eleventh century fighting in the lands around the eastern Mediterranean, Palestine and Syria, capturing Jerusalem and setting kingdoms from Anatolia to the Egyptian border. In 1204 the Fourth Crusade plundered Constantinople the most holy city at that time, with Christians fighting Christians. And the slaughters continued (and continues to this day). According to Romer, "More heretics and scholars were burned in the Middle Ages than were ever killed in Carolingian times. For at this time the Inquisition came into its own, and torture, largely unused as an instrument of government since Roman days, was reintroduced."
In the 1380s, John Wycliffe translated the first English Bible which inspired an English religious revolution which caused persecutions against him by the Catholic Church.
In the early 1500’s the German heretic, Martin Luther, almost single handedly caused the final split from the Roman Catholic church and created the beginnings of the Protestant revolution. This split still influences violence to this day. He translated the Bible into German which further spread Protestantism. Luther also helped spread anti-Semitism with his preaching and books such as his "The Jews and their lies," all supported through his interpretation of the Bible. One should not forget that Hitler (a Christian and great admirer of Luther) and his holocaust could not have occurred without his influence and the support of Bible believing German Christians.
In the 1530s William Tyndale completed his version of the English Protestant Bible (probably with the aid of Luther) and the first to print the English Bible. He too felt the persecution of the Church and he spent his last days in imprisonment and exile. His enemies finally caught him and burned him at the stake, but because of his celebrity, they strangled him first (what nice guys!).
After Luther’s German Bible, others followed suit by translating the Bible into their native languages including Dutch and French. Not until 1611 C.E. did a committee of translators and interpreters complete the most popular Bible of all time, the King James Version.
Today we still have dozens of Bible translation versions, with Bible scholars still arguing over the meaning and proper translations of words and phrases. The following shows just a few of the most popular versions:
King James Version (KJV)
The New King James Version (NKJV)
Modern King James Version [Green's Translation] (MKJV)
Literal Translation Version [Green] (LITV)
International Standard Version (ISV)
The New International Version (NIV)
English Standard Version (ESV)
New English Bible (NEB)
American Standard Version (ASV)
New American Standard Bible (NASB)
Revised Standard Version (RSV)
New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) Contemporary English Version (CEV)
Today’s English Version (TEV)
The Living Bible (LB)
New Century Version (NC)
New Life Version (NLV)
New Living Translation (NLT)
Young’s Literal Translation (YLT)
Revised Young’s Literal Translation (RYLT)
John Darby’s New Translation
Weymouth New Testament Translation
Rotherham’s
(One might wonder what will happen to the "new" revisions a few hundred years from now. Nevertheless, the King James Version still remains the most used Bible in the world today and it will probably continue its popularity long into the future.)
No doubt that future versions of Bibles will surface in the future: revisions of previously revised Bibles and newer revisions of new versions. The history of the many versions of the Bible stories, from the ancient Mesopotamian myths to the varied interpretations, interpolations, and versions of the Bible speaks volumes about the reliability of their interpretations and the alleged "truth" they claim the Bible holds, because it shows that the Bible comes not from supernatural agents but rather from human imagination. We have not one shred of evidence for the supernatural influence on human written works (and mostly from unknown authors), but we do have an abundance of evidence for human recorded beliefs and myths. This shows a marked difference between those of scientific works and those deriving from religious minds. For example, Euclid’s Elements written around 300 B.C.E. has changed little since its inception. Scientists don’t argue and debate about its meaning because they know it doesn’t represent an absolute or fixed work. It only provides a step in the understanding of geometry. Most Christian apologists, on the other hand, view the Bible as fixed and absolute, if only they could only just get the interpretation correct. But regardless of how much they want the Bible to reflect their particular beliefs, they can never dislodge the violence and atrocities described and condoned by their God in the stories in the Old Testament. Nor can they dismiss the even more horrific result of the horrors of Hell as amplified by the words of the alleged Jesus in the New Testament where almost everyone on earth dies in eternal fire. In short, Bible belief influences horror, not by the majority but by the few that actually believe in its macabre prophecy and have the power to force their beliefs onto the majority.
We have little reason to think that violence inspired by Bibles and other religious texts will ever cease. One only has to look at the religious wars around the world to see belief’s everlasting destructive potential. One only has to look at the Protestant-Catholic uprising in Ireland, the conflicts in the middle east with Jews fighting Moslems & Christians, the Gulf war, Sudan’s civil war between Christians and Islamics, the Bosnia conflicts, and the war in Iraq. The desperate acts of fanatical individuals who have killed for their beliefs of Jesus, Mohammed, God or Satan would create a death list unmatched by any other method in history. The "Holy" Bible supports the notion of war and destruction, not only as a prophesy but as a moral necessity. If we wish to become a peaceful species, it may well serve us to understand the forces of belief that keep us in continual conflict and why the Bible has such a stronghold on the minds of people around the world.
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Christians don’t know anything about their own history and none of them understand just how insane the evolution of their mind-raping cult truly is.
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