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jethot00
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i have a question. if we are all sinners (and accoriding to the bible … we are) my “free” will would be never to offend my creator. since we are all sinners and can not be perfect … where is my free will? 
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Third_Day
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If you sin you freely chose to sin. You also have the free willl not to sin.i have a question. if we are all sinners (and accoriding to the bible … we are) my “free” will would be never to offend my creator. since we are all sinners and can not be perfect … where is my free will?
Let’s say you are asked to go to a drinking party and you know you will get drunk which is a sin. You instead decide to avoid the party because you don’t want to sin. You just used your free will to avoid sin.
While we are all sinners we are not all committing mortal sins that destroy grace. Venial sins should be the only sin one is committing and even those can be avoided by by God’s grace.
Grace received, especially through the sacaments can strengthen the will to help you avoid offending God. If you continue to offend God then your will is weak but it is always free.
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PAboy57
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Our free will allows us to choose to sin or not to sin. Just as the previous example we also have the option to avoid situations which might lead to sin.
We are human and with all these emotions we slip up from time to time. So God gave us the Sacraments to restore us with God’s grace. We have to choose to use them such as the Sacrament of Reconciliation which prepares us to receive Jesus in the Eucharist.
The more we pray and receive the Sacraments the stronger we come to avoid sin. So use your free will to avoid sin and receive the Sacraments often.
We always have a choice. Try reading about the Saints and some of the free will decisions they had to make.
God Bless
We are human and with all these emotions we slip up from time to time. So God gave us the Sacraments to restore us with God’s grace. We have to choose to use them such as the Sacrament of Reconciliation which prepares us to receive Jesus in the Eucharist.
The more we pray and receive the Sacraments the stronger we come to avoid sin. So use your free will to avoid sin and receive the Sacraments often.
We always have a choice. Try reading about the Saints and some of the free will decisions they had to make.
God Bless
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shaky
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Can any body show me a list of mortal Sins and a List of venial Sins. Also what are the sacraments that causes you to receive grace?
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Third_Day
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If you sin against one of the Ten Commandments you have committed a mortal sin. However your cupability may be lessened if you did not know, through no fault of your own, that you were committing a mortal sin. You must have full knowledge and deliberate consent.
Catechism
1801 Conscience can remain in ignorance or make erroneous judgments. Such ignorance and errors are not always free of guilt
1790 A human being must always obey the certain judgment of his conscience. If he were deliberately to act against it, he would condemn himself. Yet it can happen that moral conscience remains in ignorance and makes erroneous judgments about acts to be performed or already committed.
1791 This ignorance can often be imputed to personal responsibility. This is the case when a man “takes little trouble to find out what is true and good, or when conscience is by degrees almost blinded through the habit of committing sin.” In such cases, the person is culpable for the evil he commits
1793 If - on the contrary - the ignorance is invincible, or the moral subject is not responsible for his erroneous judgment, the evil committed by the person cannot be imputed to him. It remains no less an evil, a privation, a disorder. One must therefore work to correct the errors of moral conscience
Baltimore Catechism
19 Q. How is grace given us by God?
A. Grace is given us by God chiefly through the sacraments.
20 Q. Do the sacraments confer any other grace besides sanctifying grace?
A. Besides sanctifying grace the sacraments also confer sacramental grace.
21 Q. What is sacramental grace?
A. Sacramental grace consists in the right acquired in the reception of a sacrament, to have at the proper time the actual graces necessary to fulfill the obligations arising from the sacrament received. Thus when we were baptized we received the right to have the grace to live a Christian life.
22 Q. Do the sacraments always confer grace on those who receive them?
A. The sacraments always confer grace provided they are received with the necessary dispositions.
23 Q. Who gave to the sacraments the power of conferring grace?
A. Jesus Christ by His passion and death gave to the sacraments the power of conferring grace.
24 Q. What sacraments confer first sanctifying grace?
A. The sacraments which confer first sanctifying grace, and render us friends of God, are two: Baptism and Penance.
25 Q. How are these two sacraments called on that account?
A. These two sacraments, Baptism and Penance, are on that account called sacraments of the dead, because they are instituted chiefly to restore to the life of grace the soul dead by sin.
26 Q. Which are the sacraments that increase grace in those who already possess it?
A. The sacraments which increase grace in those who already possess it are the other five: Confirmation, Eucharist, Extreme Unction, Holy Orders and Matrimony, all of which confer second grace.
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jethot00
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i origanally posted the question about free will … all these answeres are basically the same. “you chose to sin.” NO. we are predispoded to be sinners. it’s in the bible a million times. WE ARE SINNERS. so .,. my question is … if we are all sinners where is my free will? please do not post “we chose to sin” because my point is not that it is instead that we ARE ALL sinners an SINCE we ALREADY ARE to be that … wheres the free will? SUGGESTING THAT WE “choose” to sin also implys we can instead CHOSE instead to be perfect … um … no. we can not. if that were the case christ never needed to come to earth. anyone understanding this? simple really … all have sinned and come short of the glory of God so then … FREE WILL???
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shaky
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With the 10 commandments. Sabbath is the Saturday and this was practised by early Christians. But for some reason the catholics made Sunday worship. So do catholics still do Saturday sabbath with Sunday worship?
what about lust and fornication heresies gluttony pride ambition etc. These are not in the 10 commandments are these the venial sins?
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Third_Day
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The apostles and the early Christians worshiped on Sunday the first day of the week "
“And on the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread” Acts 20:7
“Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I directed the churches of Galatia, so do you also. On the first day of every week let each one of you put aside and save, as he may prosper, that no collections be made when I come.” 1 Cor 16:1-2
Notice here that Paul is directing the churches to meet on the first day of each week and put money aside. It would seem that this is tithing.
Sexual sins fall under the commandment against adultery.
I would imagine that gluttony, pride and ambition could fall under Thy shall not kill. Taking drugs, getting drunk can kill the body. pride and ambition can kill the soul. Those could also fall under Thy shall not Covet and Thy shall not bear false witness.
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shaky
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Well does a '‘Atheist’ have not the ‘‘free will’’ to believe?
Does a ‘‘Christian’’ have not the free will to disbelieve?
If there is no ‘‘free will’’ to believe and have faith. You need Grace!!
If there is no ‘‘free will’’ to disbelieve. You need Grace taken away!!
Ephesians 2:8. It is by Grace you are saved through faith. It is not of yourselves it is a Gift from God.
God has to Give you the faith by his grace>Untill then you will have no faith and no grace
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jethot00
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okay … now this one makes some sence to me … our free will is to believe in God or not to? thats what im getting form your post and if thats the case i think your answer is great! thanks!
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