The rules have not been changed by the Vatican to suit many modern lifestyles... So, a lot of catholics ignore church rules along with other structure that just doesn't work out for them...
Would that make a practicing cathoic breaking the rules...
a hypocrite? a sinner?
If a catholic commits a sin, they must confess their sin to a priest before they can recieve any other sactraments....
(such as the sacraments of communion, marrage, ect...)
However.... if the catholic plans on continuing the sin, they can't ask for forgiveness in the sacrament of pennance....
Therefore who is catholic choosing to live in sin against the church may recieve no sacraments & attend mass only to pray.
Statistics would have 75% of adults using a bith control... 40-50% divorsed... 20% (or more) cheating on a spouse....blah, blah, blah...these are all sins against the church)
Dose the catholic church create sinners?
Or are humans just prone to sin?
2006-08-29 06:54:04 · 12 answers · asked by gurlyruby 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
most catholics are "cafeteria catholics" and pick and choose as to what they want to believe is a sin...no matter what the church teaches. The church also is afraid to lose too many members, and they want to keep the money rolling in ....so they lighten up the rules each generation.
2006-08-29 14:42:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Catholic Church does not create sinners.
Satan creates sinners.
Is the Catholic Church under Satan's rule because the Vatican doesn't change "to suit many modern lifestyles"? Are you saying that modern lifestyles have some integrity and sinlessness, and if the Vatican would just conform itself to the purity of modern life, then there would be no sin?
I don't think so.
2006-08-29 07:07:12 · answer #2 · answered by Gestalt 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
--is Catholic--
Christ himself said that if he would not have come into the world, those who would not follow Him would not have sinned. So too then, if the Church had not come into the world, would those who do not follow her not have sinned. But since Christ has come and the Church has come, and the light of Truth has been shown upon the dark places, then those who remain in darkness, remain in darkness and are also guilty of not leaving the darkness.
While one is in ignorance of how one should live in accord with God, there is no sin. But when one knows and yet lives apart from God, then there is sin.
As for humans being prone to sin, I suggest that you read St. Augustine's CONFESSIONS. This shows how being habituated to sin makes it hard not to live in darkness. You can also read Plato REPUBLIC VII which says much of the same thing.
2006-08-29 13:23:15 · answer #3 · answered by Liet Kynes 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Catholic Church realizes that the truth does not change. If it is the truth, why would it?
Just because so many people choose sin does not make it right. Truth is not determined by a majority vote.
The Catholic Church does not create sinners, they help us to form our consciences to so that we can recognize and avoid sin, and I am thankful to be a Catholic.
2006-08-29 07:02:05 · answer #4 · answered by anabasisx 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No.
Sin is a deliberate thought, word, deed, or omission contrary to the eternal law of God.
We are prone to sin because we are "born with a fallen human nature and tainted by original sin.”
We are all sinners and most of us are hypocrites part of the time.
God and His Church offer us a way out of sin and darkness and into salvation.
With love in Christ.
2006-08-29 16:38:28 · answer #5 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The catholic church doesn't create sinners. We are born that way.
The reason the rules haven't changed is because they are rules that come from God. God does not change because He is perfect, and therefore has no need of change. That is why His rules don't change either. It is people, society, that changes because we are imperfect. If everyone turned back to God and lived by His commandments, we wouldn't have any birth control or divorce statistics, or adultery. These poisons plague us because we have left God, not because God "doesn't keep up with modern times".
2006-08-29 07:14:07 · answer #6 · answered by Danny H 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Catholic Church does not create sinners. The Church should not be faulted if we, its members, don't "follow the rules."
If the answer to your question was "yes," then we'd also have to conclude that the law and the prison system creates criminals.
But, of course, the law and the prison system don't create criminals. People break the law of their own accord.
2006-08-29 07:05:52 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-09-30 03:25:41 · answer #8 · answered by wichern 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People sin because that is what is in their hearts..........
For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. -Romans 1:21-25
2006-08-29 07:03:53 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Since, the fall, humans are prone to sin.
2006-08-29 06:58:36 · answer #10 · answered by crm451 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋