Indulgences/Double Consequences of Sin

[dmar198]

Hey everybody,

The Catechism says that all sin (especially mortal sin) does two things: (1) it detaches us from God, and (2) it attaches us to “this world.” Does anybody know any Scriptures to reflect on about this?

I thought that maybe it could be brought out of Galatians 5:17 – it says, “the flesh wars against the Spirit,” which seems to suggest that sin attaches us to the flesh (‘this world’) and pits us against the Spirit. Anybody know of any more explicit statements?

God bless!
-Dan Marcum

 

[Drawmack]

Hey everybody,

The Catechism says that all sin (especially mortal sin) does two things: (1) it detaches us from God, and (2) it attaches us to “this world.” Does anybody know any Scriptures to reflect on about this?

I thought that maybe it could be brought out of Galatians 5:17 – it says, “the flesh wars against the Spirit,” which seems to suggest that sin attaches us to the flesh (‘this world’) and pits us against the Spirit. Anybody know of any more explicit statements?

God bless!
-Dan Marcum

Since the nature of sin hasn’t changed it might do to look into original sin in Genesis.

 

[dmar198]

Since the nature of sin hasn’t changed it might do to look into original sin in Genesis.

Genesis 3 says that the Original Sin had many temporal consequences – not only death, but suffering in childbirth, laborious field-work, and enmity with many animals who have become little more than pests. But none of those temporal punishments are remitted with any indulgence, even a plenary one – so I would say that the nature of sin IS different in our case: the Original Sin distorted human nature causing all of those defects which are so close to permanent that they will endure to the end of the world, but our personal sins do not have the same impact.