what is sin.pptx

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Sin is an offense against reason, truth, and rightconscience.

It is a failure in genuine love of God and

neighbor caused by a perverse attachment tocertain goods.

It wounds the nature of the human person and injures

human solidarity.

It has been defined as an utterance ; a deed,or a desire contrary to the eternal law.


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Pride is often seen as the reason for

mans stiff-necked refusal to love his God

or other men.

Pride cut off the livingrelationship between God and

man and led to death.


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Living relationship was expressed in

terms of a covenant, an agreement of

love between God and his people to be

faithful to one another.


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1. missing the mark focuses on the offense inflected on

another by failing to meet ones covenant obligation.

2. depravity and perversity refer to the defect of a

character or disorder that weighs the sinner down.

3. rebellion and transgression picture sin as a

conscious choice which destroys positive

relationships.


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1. more primitive, less morally developed idea of sinwhich pictures it as a defilement or stain, thesense of being unclean before the face of God, the

All-Holy.

2. More ethical view of sin [resented on the alltestament, in the stories of prophets, and

covenant narratives.

3. Sin is a personal rejection of a love relationship.


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Also talks of sin in terms of relationship. Jesus affirmed that thegreatest commandment had to do with a loving relationship:

You love God above all things and your neighbor as yourself.

Sin is considered as ungrateful desertion of the Lord. It isantitheses of charity, and offense against love.

Sin is a lawlessness and unrighteousness. It is loving

darkness rather than light the sinner hates the light.


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reducing to one of two factors:

Pride- refusing to be subject to God and not desiring toreceive ones perfection from Him.

Sensuality- not trying permeates ones body by Spirit.

Love of self is a natural thing. But to sin is to love ones self

inordinately, not being open to god and to ones fellowmen.In the full light of Christian revelation, we know that God

comes to us the source and goal of our freedom. Sin, then,involves not merely closing ones self against ones true

destiny but rejecting the gracious offer of God. We refuse our

true fulfillment In God and try to find it in our poor ego, whenall the time, God is calling us to intimacy with Himself.


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Social sins- stress complicity in evil by showing howmembers of the same groups are mutually involved. It

can refer to the following:Sins power to affect others by reason of human solidarity

Sins that directly attack human rights and basic freedoms,human dignity, justice and common good

Sins affecting relationships between or among human

communities such as class struggle or obstinate confrontationsbetween blocs of nations

Situations of sins or sinful structures that are consequences ofsinful choices and acts, and economic system of exploitations


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Participating directly and voluntarily inthem

Ordering, advising, praising or approvingthem

Not disclosing or not hindering them whenwe have the obligation to do so

Protecting evildoers


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o Structures of sins- are the expressions and

effect of personal sins.

o Social sins- victim- their victims are lead to doevil in their turn

o Private sin- we are in a way staining ordefiling the society/community which meantto be clean

o Personal sin- we dirt the society which shouldbe clean.


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Mortal sins may disrobe as the outcome of thedeliberate reversal, of our option to be for godand for others. It is the full commitment to an

option which contradicts gods will and apersons authentic goals realization of onesnatural goal (happiness) and super natural

goals (communion with god)

It pre supposes, therefore, a clear knowledgeof the serious disorder of the sinful decision and

full consent of the freewill.


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One commits a mortal sin when:

There is a full knowledge or awareness of thewrong choice.

The gravity or seriousness of the object of theact is a significant manner.

there is full and deliberate consent of the

freewill that presupposes the actual doing ofthis wrong option.


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3 Dimension of sin. Spiral - sin enslaves as in a contagious, pathological habit

of vice that acts like a virus, infecting social attitudes andstructures such as family, social groups, and likes.

Sickness - sin can also described as a sickness. Saint Lukelinks healing to be forgiveness of sin.

Addiction - a process over which we become powerless asit becomes progressively more compulsive and obsessive.Sin as addiction leads to a pattern of ever deeperdeception of self and others, ending in the inevitabledisintegration of all our major personal and socialrelationship


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We need to consider these dimensions

of sin in order for us to have;

More realistic appraisal of the sinners actual

operative freedom.

Positive orientation toward the process of

healing and forgiveness.

Stress on the overriding importance of the

social and structural dimensions of sin.


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Concepts

Being responsible for particular actions

A person is responsible meaning answerable for his orher action,

We have to admit that we have committed sin.

Example: Did I make a mistake on my income tax? YES.

Did I hit you a soft ball? YES.

Did I crash the red light? YES.


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being blameworthy for particular action

I am blameworthy, morally speaking, only if I have moral

guilt for my actions.

Example:

Yes, I made a mistake on my income tax, but simplybecause I accidentally inadvertently failed to carry over a 0 in

the exemptions column. I am responsible for my action, nut sinceI did not intend it, my blameworthiness is lessened. Perhaps,though, I should have been more careful

In traditional terms, a sin is a serious sin for me under the followingcircumstances:

IS IT WRONG?

DO I KNOW IT IS WRONG?

DO I FREELY ENGAGE IN EVIL?


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Proliferation

Rapid reproduction or increase in numbers;

a large number of something.

- Concise English dictionary

Effects of Repeated Sins

Within the person, repetition of sin brings abouta proclivity to sin, resulting in perverse

inclinations and erroneous judgments. Sin

reinforces itself and destroys any moral roots.

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IN BRIEF

The repetition of sins - even venial ones -engenders vices, among which are the

capital sins

The Seven Capital Sins

Vices can be classified according to the virtues theyoppose, or also be linked to the capital sins which

Christian experience has distinguished, following St. JohnCassian and St. Gregory the Great.They are called "capital" because they engender othersins, other vices. They are pride, avarice, envy, wrath, lust,

gluttony, and sloth or acedia.


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St. Paul warned the Galatians of theworks of the flesh are plain: fornication,impurity, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery,

enmity, strife, jealousy, anger, selfishness,dissentions, factions, envy, drunkenness,carousing, and the like. I warn you, as I

warned you before, that those who dosuch things shall not inherit the kingdom

of God.


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Thank you!

We hope

you comprehend!

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