Whats The Difference Between The Seven Deadly Sins And Other Sins?

Question

Which of the seven do you think is the worst? Which do you think is the most harmless or not as bad?

Answer 1

All depends on the one your wife catches you doing.
That one is in her mind the worst.

Answer 2

Nothing, really. Sin is really an outdated concept.

If you look at the "Seven Deadly Sins", you'll see that all of them are virtues unless done in the extreme. Their opposites, the "Seven Virtues", are supposed to be the opposite of the Seven Deadly Sins. However, they are also bad if taken in the extreme.

The general rule is moderation and using your brain to work out specific situations.

For example, one of the Seven Deadly Sins is "Greed" and its opposite would be "Selflessness". In the extreme, trying to hoard everything or giving away everything are both bad. Generally, you should have ambitions and try to build your sucess, but also be considerate of those around you and try to help your fellow man when you can. That's a more sensible view.

The exact line and the exact situations where something goes from being good to bad is something you have to think about. Use your brain. Too much reliance on any list of supposed morals is not a good thing. It just makes you morally lazy.

This is yet another way that religion harms society.

Answer 3

Pope Gregory the Great described Seven Deadly Sins in his Moralia in Job.

1. Superbia Pride
2. Invidia Envy
3. Ira Anger
4. Avaritia Avarice
5. Tristia Sadness
6. Gula Gluttony
7. Luxuria Lust

The sin ‘Tristia’ was later replaced by ‘Accidia’, or Sloth (Wenzel (1967)). This sin was taken from earlier catalogues of vice, in particular, the eight evil thoughts listed by Evaagrius and the eight principal vices proposed by the mid fourth-century writer Cassian. Some of the iconography of the Sins was derived from the descriptions of the Battles between the Virtues and Vices in the Psychomachia by the fourth-century poet Prudentius.
The church made a division between sins which were venial and could be forgiven without the need for the sacrament of Confession and those which were capital and merited damnation. Capital or Deadly Sins were so called because they could have a fatal effect on an individual’s spiritual health. British wall paintings stressed the connection between committing the Deadly Sins and ending up in Hell.
After three, seven is the number of greatest religious significance in ancient Judaism (Kirschbaum 1972). God made the world in six days and rested on the seventh, hallowing it. The number seven consequently had connotations of completeness or perfection. It was also significant in the Ancient World, associated with the seven planets, the seven ages of man and the Seven Wonders of the World. Given its prominence in Jewish and Antique thought, it is not surprising that it retained its significance in the early Church (Kirschbaum 1972. The Seven Deadly Sins became one of a number of important groups of seven current in the medieval church, for example, the Seven canonical hours, the Seven petitions of the Lord’s Prayer, the Seven Joys and Seven Sorrows of the Virgin and, of course, the Seven Corporal Works of Mercy.

Answer 4

First, the seven deadly sins are attitudes or mind sets, pride, greed, laziness, lust, gluttony, vanity, anger, whereas some sins can happen out of temptation. I believe pride is the worst (Satan's sin and Adam's) If they are deadly I don't they there is a harmless one.

Answer 5

The sins were conceived by early Christian leaders, which were made public knowledge easier by Dante's Divine Comedy. Each has an opposing holy virtue. Though the sins have stayed fairly constant, the virtues have had other words to describe them over the years.

The following lists the seven deadly sins, in severity from least to greatest (along with their holy virtue counterparts)

Deadly Sin Holy Virtue
Lust (inappropriate desire) Chastity (purity)
Gluttony (over-indulgence) Temperance (self-restraint)
Avarice (greed) Generosity (vigilance)
Sloth (laziness) Zeal (enthusiasm)
Wrath (anger) Patience (composure)
Envy (jealousy) Charity (giving)
Pride (vanity) Humility (humbleness)

Answer 6

There are 7 things the Lord hates and cannot tolerate:

A proud look
*A lying tongue
Hands that kill innocent people
A mind that thinks up wicked plans
Feet that hurry off to do evil
*A witness who tells one lie after another
and *a man who stirs up trouble among his friends.

I think the unruly tongue would be the worst. Can't pick one that is the most harmless because none are.

The difference may be that these 7 can cause the most injury physically and spiritually.

Answer 7

The 7 deadly sins was something made up in the middle ages by men. Sin is what we do when we go against how God made us.

Answer 8

The seven deadly sins is a way of grouping all sin into seven categories . . . they all fit into one of the groups

Sin is sin . . . one is as bad as all . . . that is the perspective Jesus tried to get us to see . . . from a Holy stand point (God is Holy) . . . sin is sin.

Answer 9

If you commit a deadly sin and don't confess & repent...it means that those are unforgivable and when you die..your soul will die forever. i.e. you will go to Hell

The other sins...you might be forgiven with some penance in the "purgatory"

Answer 10

The seven deadly are...deadly