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Christians often say,

"A sin is a sin"
Isn't murder worse than lying about your age? This is sick

"We're all born sinners"
They're putting murderers in the same boat with people who think about sex. They have to be crazy

So, if they murder someone, they'll say "well, we're all born sinners anyway"

Jesus died for your dirt? (murder, rape, ect.) Oh, now you still have a chance of going to heaven after killing 10 babies? SICK

You have to be crazy to think a "good God" would even think this way

2007-01-10 11:47:19 · 2 answers · asked by Black Atheist 1 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

2 answers

+ Sin +

Catholics do not beleive all sins are equal.

Sin is a deliberate thought, word, deed, or omission contrary to the eternal law of God.

A mortal sin is a grave infraction of the law of God that destroys the divine life in the soul of the sinner (sanctifying grace), constituting a turn away from God. For a sin to be mortal, three conditions must be present: grave matter, full knowledge of the evil of the act, and full consent of the will.

Most of the sins we commit are venial sins. Venial sin is a sin which does not destroy the divine life in the soul, as does mortal sin, though it diminishes and wounds it. Venial sin is the failure to observe necessary moderation, in lesser matters of the moral law, or in grave matters acting without full knowledge or complete consent.

However consistent unrepentant venial sins can slowly destroy your relationship with God and become mortal sin.

People die all the time with venial sins on their conscience and they will go to heaven.

http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt3sect1chpt1art8.htm#1854

+ Original Sin +

Catholics beleive we are not born sinners but we are born into this world with a fallen state of human nature.

Original sin is the sin by which the first human beings disobeyed the commandment of God, choosing to follow their own will rather than God's will.

As a consequence they lost the grace of original holiness, became subject to the law of death, and sin became universally present in the world.

Besides the personal sin of Adam and Eve, original sin describes the fallen state of human nature which affects every person born into the world, and from which Christ, the "new Adam," came to redeem us.

http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt1sect2chpt1art1p7.htm#396

+ With love in Christ.

2007-01-13 11:06:18 · answer #1 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 1 0

i believe it was ghandi that said, "i love your Christ, not your Christians" to me any Openly "Good Christian" is hiding something...

2007-01-10 20:09:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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