for christian believers what is a "venial sin" & "mortal sin" & what is sacramentals?

Answer 1

Okay a mortal sin is also called a grievous or deadly sin as it immediately cuts the person of from the life of grace and they resume the position of an enemy of God, mortal sins include willingly and purposely breaking anyone of the 10 commandments for example.
Venial sins are also an offense to God but they do not cut us of from His grace nor do we make ourselves enemies of God, but these sins need to be repented just as much as mortal sins do.
Venial sins include unjust anger,violence,lies etc.
A Sacramental is less than a sacrament but still important,Blessed water is a sacramental and usually means that it carries a blessing of the church.

Answer 2

these terms pertain mostly to the catholic church and a good understanding of the terms can be found in a cathecism of the church. although the terms are not found in the bible(same as rapture etc) they are all strongly rooted in scripture. for a quick overview you may want to check out scripurecatholic.com,fisheaters.com and ewtn.com.

the basics are this mrtal sin=complete separation from god via breaking willingly the 10 commandments or the seven deadly sins, eg. slothiness,gluttony,lust etc.......the separation is because you have lost grace to be with god but this can be retained via confession(truly from the heart and must be done prior to death).

venial sins are those that partially seperate one from god but are not as grave as a mortal/deadly sin. for example a lie,profanities and others. these also can be forgiven via confession.

sacramentals are the sacraments of the church
1 baptism
2 confession/reconciliation/penance
3 holy communion/eucharist
4 confirmation
5 matrimony/marriage
6 holy orders-devotion to the priestly life
7 extreme unction or the last rites.

Answer 3

1John 5:16 He that knoweth his brother to sin a sin which is not to death, let him ask: and life shall be given to him who sinneth not to death. There is a sin unto death. For that I say not that any man ask.
1John 5:17 All iniquity is sin. And there is a sin unto death.

St. John, who is obviously a member of the Catholic "cult" that Don speaks about, clearly defines two types of sins:

Sins unto death and sins NOT unto death.

Deadly (mortal) sins result in the complete loss of God's grace, and the spiritual "death" of the soul.

Adam's "original" sin was certainly one of these.

The other type of (venial) sin is certainly not good, but typically only wounds the soul, rather than having a deadly effect on it.

True contrition for sin, followed by authentic repentance, is necessary for forgiveness of any and all types of sins, but since a mortal sin would typically qualify a person for an eternity in hell, if he died in such a state, mortal sins certainly demand a higher priority.

Members of Don's Catholic "cult" also enjoy the great blessing and peace of the sacrament of reconciliation, whereby repentant and contrite persons are able to receive the absolute assurance that God has forgiven their sin(s) ... no matter how serious ... courtesy of the only Church that Jesus ever personally founded and authorized for that purpose ... the Catholic Church.

The old testament system of "you broke one law, you broke them all" no longer applies in these new testament times, but
non "cult" members often fail to understand these things.

Sacramentals would include items used to help with prayer, or to otherwise assist one to become more closely united with God, like rosaries, holy water, sacred art and statuary, crucifixes, etc.

Sacramentals are often blessed by a priest, bishop or pope.

Answer 4

I don't believe either term is in Scripture. If you apply to churchianity you can get all kinds of pagan ideas. Mortal means deadly (as in it will kill you) venial is less harmful. Basically if you want to be on YHVH's side, you need to follow His rules. Since He is the one judging in the end, whether you have the pope's permission or not might not make much difference.

Answer 5

Sin is sin.

To be guilty of one break in the Ten Commandments is to be guilty of breaking them all, because it only takes the one to be found guilty of being a sinner, and to be deserving of God's wrath and judgement.

Of course, in the human realm, some "sins" are more serious than others; littering, cursing, or lying are far less serious than drug dealing, rape, or murder, so the idea of grading the seriousness of a particular sin comes from our human perspective. In the sight of God, the issue is simply, are you guilty of committing ANY sin, at all? We are declared to be sinners from the point of conception; it only takes the commission of one sin, once, to confirm it.

VENAL and MORTAL are not classifications that you will find in the Bible.

Answer 6

It's a ladder rung of sins. Not so good slap on wrist type stuff; horrid burn in heel forever stuff. Isn't that convenient.

Answer 7

NOTHING.

TRUE CHRISTIANS do not have any of the above categories!

Try asking people in the catholic Cult.