How many types of sin are there?

Question

I'm writing a religion paper, and my topic is sin. Does anyone know how many types of sin there are?

Answer 1

Since you can look at a female and rack up at least 50 venial and mortal sins without even getting to a single open button stage, I would say the variety is near infinite.

Answer 2

There is only one type of sin: Sin. No sin is worse than another. For the wages of sin is death. I know that when I first learned of what Jesus Christ did for me, live a perfect life as a human and die in my place, that I found out that I was still loved my God. The bible does not differentiate one sin from another, sin is sin. There are many ways we can sin, but they all fall under the category of sin.

Answer 3

Others have enumerated the Catholic canon of the seven deadly sins. Look at the 10 commandments of the Hebrew Bible (Exodus 20, I am numbering them according to the Catholic / Lutheran canon)... Have no other Gods before The One God. Don't worship money, or sex, or beauty etc for these are sins. Do not misuse the divine name. This can give the sin of swearing, or the sin of arrogantly claiming divine favor for your own stuff. "Remember the sabbath day, and keep it holy. For six days you shall labor and do all your work. But the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God; you shall not do any work—you, your son or your daughter, your male or female slave, your livestock, or the alien resident in your towns. " PAY ATTENTION to this one. This says, don't work yourself to death, and just as importantly, don't work other people or animals to death. Life is more than work, for all sentient beings. So, exploitation is a sin. Honor your father and mother so that your own days may be long. A sin against this law might be refusing to care for older people and not benefiting from their wisdom. Don't kill, don't screw around, don't steal, don't lie, don't covet other peoples' families or stuff. -- those are pretty obvious. You ought to be able to pull nine types of sin out of that material. If you're looking for sins according to a non-Abrahamic tradition, I am sure the eightfold path taught by the Buddha or certain sutras offer similar ideas about human behavior. Peace.

Answer 4

There are seven capital (mortal) sins: Pride, avarice, envy, wrath, lust, gluttony, and sloth

Other sins not mortal:
1. A law is involved, such as a moral law.
2. God is offended; the divine dimension is always present when we sin.
3. Sin is disobedience. We resist God’s grace and disobey His commands.
4.The disobedience is deliberate. We know that something is contrary to God’s law but freely disobey anyway

Answer 5

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 100 percent of the time?

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 and we are perfect creations of a perfect God 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.

Love and blessings
don

Answer 6

There is only one sin in God's eyes and that is SIN!!!. In God's eyes whether is it mortal or venial, black or white, big or small is still a sin. There are no different types of sin.

Answer 7

There are 2 types of sin:

Mortal & Venial.

Answer 8

None. Sin means disobedience to a deity, but no deities exist, hence no sin exists.

Answer 9

One. Sin is sin.

"Nuff said

Answer 10

In chinese religion..there's 8 type...