Why can no one tell me what a mortal sin is.?

Question

Firstly it is not the seven deadly sins, that something completly different.

I know also the things about it needing to be grave, deliberate etc.


But tell me what are they - Murder OK I wont do that and wasnt planning on it.

Any ideas.

LISTEN TO ME PEOPLE.

I am not asking for some evangelical monologue about how Mortal sin is a catholic invention.

I am not asking for characteristics of a mortal sin.

I WANT A LIST OF WHAT THEY ARE!!!!!!!!!

SO THAT I CAN AVOID THEM!!!!!

Answer 1

The principle of all mortal sins is denying the holy spirit. Do that, and you've bought a non-refundable ticket to hell. I'm not kidding, I wouldn't make this sh!t up. It's right there in the New Testament.

If these thumbs-down are coming from Christians, I'm curious why you don't like the answer that comes from your own book.

Lady Phoenix: You give a good example of just how absurd and useless Christian doctrine is as a source of moral instruction.

Answer 2

The old, legalistic definition od "mortal" sin had three conditions: The act had to be intrinsically evil, you had to know that it was evil, and you had to do it anyway. A more enlightened interpretation takes its cue from the word, "mortal".

When you act selfishly and injure someone somehow, that is sin. You may both recognize your act and there may be some resentment, but you can still talk, interact and cope. A serious or "mortal" sin kills the relationship. You can't talk, deal or look the other person in the eye. Mortal sins must often be hidden just to prevent reprisals. If people knew what you had done, you'd be condemned and shunned.

The only way to recover from such a state is to reconcile. You admit to what you've done and its wrongness, negotiate some kind of restitution, and re-establish the relationship. "Mortal" does NOT mean "unforgiveable". It just means that you have to make a deliberate effort to re-establish trust and friendship.

Answer 3

Mortal Sin would be a sin created by someone who is Mortal which means that person can die. Basically it was another way and word the catholic church invented to make you feel bad about being a disgusting "sinner" in their eyes. Besides do your bible study: God said all sin is the same..no matter how big or small! So murder and hating your neighbor rank in the same as far as sin and God are concerned.

Answer 4

There are so many different sins, it is hard to say what a mortal sin is. I don't think it's murder. I think wickedness in your heart constitutes as a sin. After all, if the sin can be defined, nobody would be doing it, would they? Honestly, you have asked a good question that I think has no right or wrong answers.

Answer 5

The only Mortal sin that I know of is not trusting God, and not believing God.

The others as far as I know are Roman Catholic creations that have no validity in the Bible.

I am not saying this to make trouble with Roman Catholics, I know that there are many Roman Catholics who are saved the same as I am. I am just disagreeing with them.

Answer 6

The concept of "Mortal" and "Venial" sins is false. God regards all sin as equal.

Sin is merely doing something that separates you from God.

God knows very well that we are imperfect, and all of us fall short of the perfection and glory of God. Because he knows this, He instituted Grace. This includes forgiveness of Sin. When we properly ask forgiveness, Grace wipes the sin from our record. The Bible says it is "blotted out", and remembered no more.

There is one note, that blasphemy is just too much to be forgiven. Blasphemy happens when a person knows the truth, but then turns around says that it is evil or of Satan.

The Pharisees who watched Jesus perform miracles and cast out Satan from people clearly understood that Jesus was from God. But, because they thought they would lose their power over the people, they stood up and claimed Jesus was from Satan!

This was a deliberate lie, and showed that the Pharisees just could not ever be redeemed. This was blasphemy.

A person who does not know the truth and says something that turns out to be untrue about God did not blaspheme. He sinned, but he didn't blaspheme.

A true Christian would find in impossible to blaspheme.

Answer 7

A mortal sin is a sin so bad that, if you do it, you'll never be able to pay back for what you've done in your mortal life, thus, you can be certain that no matter what you do afterwards, you'll go to h*ll.

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There's no "list" of mortal sins. It's any sin taken to the extreme, like genocide is to murder;
institutionalizing cruelty to the elderly is to dishonoring your parents;
creating a fake church to cash in is to idolization
etc...

Answer 8

A mortal sin is a sin that, unless confessed and absolved condemns a person's soul to Hell after death. I John 5, verses 16-17

There, that was easy enough

Answer 9

Catechism was too far back there. I don't remember the shopping list of mortal sins they made us remember.

but I bet if you googled "mortal sins" Catholic or something like that, you'd get a lot of info.

Answer 10

The usual definition is something that would, without absolution, get you consigned to perdition. Contrast "venial sin". But the entire concept of sin is nonsense.