is being agnostic a sin?...?

Question

im a catholic

Answer 1

No. But it could be a Catholic sin to become agnostic, or just a sign of common sense taking over.
Anyway, you can always repent on your death bed!

Answer 2

Kind of the idea of being an agnostic is not believing in all that "sin" crap that the Catholic religion has forced and scared down your system your whole life.

Answer 3

Agnosticism is the philosophical view that the (truth) values of certain claims—particularly theological claims regarding the existence of God, gods, or deities—are unknown, inherently unknowable, or incoherent, and therefore, (some agnostics may go as far to say) irrelevant to life. The term and the related agnostic were coined by Thomas Henry Huxley in 1869, and are also used to describe those who are unconvinced or noncommittal about the existence of deities as well as other matters of religion. The word agnostic comes from the Greek a (without) and gnosis (knowledge). Agnosticism is not to be confused with a view specifically opposing the doctrine of gnosis and Gnosticism—these are religious concepts that are not generally related to agnosticism.

Agnosticism is distinct from, but compatible with, atheism. It is also compatible with theism. This is because agnosticism is a view about knowledge concerning God, whereas theism and atheism are beliefs (or lack thereof) concerning God. For example, it is possible to believe in God but to believe that knowledge about God is not obtainable.

Agnostics may claim that it is not possible to have absolute or certain spiritual knowledge or, alternatively, that while certainty may be possible, they personally have no such knowledge. Agnosticism in both cases involves some form of skepticism towards religious statements. Some claim that there is nothing distinctive in being an agnostic because even theists do not claim to know God exists, only to believe it, and many even agree there is room for doubt; and atheists in the broader sense do not claim to know there is no God, only not to believe in one.

Answer 4

As a fellow Catholic, I believe the answer is that it makes you intellectually honest.

Don't worry about it, follow your path, God will get you to where you need to be. And, if there is no God, there was nothing to worry about in the first place.

Most people are unaware of why decisions on certain things were made in the Catholic Church, particularly the ancient Church. This old decision may help you.

In the early Church, there were many Gospels but only four made it into the list of books to be read during the liturgy. Many of those other Gospels claimed to be able to provide witness type proof of the Resurrection. They often describe it and how it happened etc.

The four Gospels do not. They only provide an empty tomb and, excluding the post Resurrection stories, only the witness of women. Given the social status of women, that is no witness at all. In fact, at the time, that was a built in discrediting witness.

The Church could have used these other Gospels to bolster its claims on Jesus, but it chose instead to leave the believer with something very important, the freedom to doubt AND the freedom to reject the witness of the Church that CHRIST IS RISEN! Instead of proving HE EXISTS, it said, here is the witness we will die for, HE IS RISEN! See the tomb is empty.

In the Eastern Catholic Church there is a saying, "God is the great iconoclast!" Iconoclasts were people who went around smashing icons and statues because they felt they violated the ten commandments. The Church debated this issue for about three hundred years and concluded that if Jesus Christ was true God of true God and true Man of true Man, then it is denying his human nature to not make portraits of him and denying his divine nature if you showed a simple representation hence the use of halos. The point is, however, that these simple images of God we carry in our hearts are false images, or rather our images of God rather than actual images of God. From time to time, God smashes these understandings of him in our hearts and send us deep into doubt. It permits us to form deeper understandings, even though what is deep to us is meaninglessly shallow to God.

The reason fundamentalists are so rigid is that they have built a very narrow very defined image of God that they refuse to let Him smash. If you are in doubt, then you are exercising your intellect and maybe God is exercising your internally made representation of Him. She might be sending you Holy Wisdom, rather than ordinary knowledge.

If God exists, He is a Mighty God, but worse, He does what He wills, He is not tame and will not be tamed by our understandings of Him.

"Fear Not!," as the angels say for if there is a God, God will take care of this; if there is no God then there was nothing to fear in the first place.

You have not sinned.

Answer 5

Anyone who has faith is actually an agnostic, because faith is an implicit admission that knowledge of god is not possible.

From a Catholic perpsective, failure to believe in god is a sin, but obviously it isn't from the perspective of someone who doesn't find the case for god compelling.

Answer 6

If you're agnostic, then you're not sure there is a God. So, why would you believe in sin? I'm not sure I understand the question. Is it a joke?

Answer 7

Agnostic means 'I don't know.'
As long as you are honestly searching for answers, you are very much in God's Will. St Thomas didn't sin by his unbelief, because once he had his answer, he believed!

Just keep searching. God will answer.

Answer 8

if you are agnostic, then you don't believe in sin. and why are you asking this question? Are you not judging them by asking this question? Is that not a sin? Hmmm....

Answer 9

gee, the religious freaks are out today
if someone is agnostic, they don't believe in sin

Answer 10

IN the Catholic view, technically yes. It means that you lack some of the three cardinal virtues (faith, hope, and love), and that you are turning away from the truth of Jesus.