Is the concept of "mortal sin" Biblical?

Answer 1

No----it is a concept of the church to keep people shackled to it.

Answer 2

The first thing that someone should be considering is whether the idea of sin is actually real.

If God is supposed to be perfect how could She have made anything or anyone that wasn't perfect.
Think about it. The idea of sin assumes certain things about God that seem highly unlikely.

First it assumes a God who is too incompetent to organize a simple educational field excursion and figure out a way to get all of the students home safely.

How likely is this that God would not be smart enough to come up with a plan for our salvation that is going to work?

It also assumes that God must have created us imperfect if we are sinners.

One might assume that God would be able to create someone perfect each and every time if he chose to. Assuming God is capable of this, then it follows logically that we must be perfect creations if we are actually creations of this perfect God.

Unless of course you are saying that God chose to create us imperfect.

If God created us imperfect then anything that may go wrong is Gods fault, not ours. This seems a bit illogical at best so I think that we need to assume that What God creates would have to be perfect.

If this is the case and Gods creations are perfect, then nothing that we can do could change what God created perfect and make it imperfect unless we think that we are more powerful than God is.

How likely is it that we the creation could be more powerful than the creator. I personally find this idea somewhat amusing, and a bit absurd.

Religion tells us that God is perfect. If this is true then it could hardly be logically for Gods creations to be considered to be anything less than perfect.

If this is the case then Nothing that we can ever do could possibly change this perfection that God willed, unless we were so powerful that our choices could override and change the will of God.

How likely is that????

Think about it.

The idea of sin is simple nonsense; a lie made up about God by religion.

Love and blessings
don

Source --- Course in miracles

Answer 3

The concept of mortal sin is fiduciary, not biblical. You can sin all the mortal sins you want just so long as you have deep pockets.

Answer 4

If all sin is one in God's eyes, what is the apostle John getting at when he writes, "If anyone sees his brother commit sin that does not lead to death, he should pray and God will give him life. I refer to those whose sin does not lead to death. There is a sin that leads to death. I am not saying that he should pray about that. All wrongdoing is sin, and there is sin that does not lead to death" (1 John 5:16-17)?

Sin that leads to death is what Catholics call "mortal sin"

Do Evangelicals-- does anyone--really believe that a five-year-old who steals a cookie is the moral and spiritual equivalent of Jeffrey Dahmer?

Of course, nobody (and especially the Evangelicals who were far wiser than their own "sin is sin" theology) believed anything of the sort in their workaday lives. They just continued believing in mortal and venial sin but renamed them "backsliding" and "stumbling."

Thus, in Evangelical parlance, when Suzy or Billy swear in anger or goof off at work on a slow day and then ask forgiveness, this is "stumbling." It is taken seriously and forgiven (as is venial sin in Catholic circles), but neither Catholic nor Protestant would make a federal case out of it.

But if Billy and Suzy go off to college, sleep together, abandon fellowship, and establish a thriving narcotics business at the local elementary school, the average Evangelical would call this "very serious backsliding." Such sins, like the mortal sins to which they correspond, are not unforgivable in an absolute sense, but any fool can see they are going to be tougher cases.

If Billy and Suzy refuse ever again to acknowledge their wrongdoing and cover it up with a load of psycho-babble about "self-empowered personal autonomy," most Evangelicals would regard their state as perilous indeed.

All common sense, all actual Evangelical practice, and even much biblical wisdom gave legitimacy to the Catholic concept of "degrees of sin." This realization was strengthened by watching the evening news and seeing, with alarming frequency, what happens when people act out a crippling "sin is sin" morality. Here is a child beaten to unconsciousness for failing to take out the garbage, there is a man driven to suicidal despair for his failure to lose ten pounds. For such as these, every flaw is a hanging offense, and the sentence is carried out mercilessly in the name of an angry God.

Answer 5

All sins are mortal. All sin is equally distasteful to God. The division of sin into categories is not Biblical,

Answer 6

No. According to the Bible sin is sin. It's alll the same.

Answer 7

And just what kinds of actions would be termed "immortal sin"?

Answer 8

Made up

Answer 9

Is it mortal or moral or am I a moron for asking?
Peace

Answer 10

It's man made