Is deadly sin a mortal sin?

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There are 7 deadly sins: Pride,covetousness, lust, anger, envy, gluttony and sloth. Capital sins are also called deadly sins.

So…as a result of original sin, each one of us has this inborn tendency to put emphasis on ourselves, to basically make our will prevail over others. We have to fight against these sins our entire lives, so are they called deadly only because they deteriorate our soul? OR Is a deadly sin a mortal sin?

I think, now that I contemplate this a little, it could be the degree of the sin which makes it mortal. How is pride a mortal sin?

What do you think?
 
What you do with your pride is whether or not it is a mortal sin. For instance, I take pride in having a home that is tidy and clean. If I let the pride in my home become overwhelming and clean and tidy all the time at the expense of my children then that is sinful. We all have a certain amount of pride - for that is what motivates us to get up in the morning and face another day. If I take pride in the fact that I am a size 12 and diet unhealthily constantly to maintain that size, while ruining my health, that is a sin.

However, if I can balance my diet with good foods so that my body not only is healthy but able to be of service to God, then the ‘pride’ that I take in it is not really pride, but a sense of well being. If I can get my children to do all my chores…(JUST KIDDING!) - if I can train my children in helping to do the household chores then I am helping them to learn life skills and they are a part of family unity and pride is not a sin in this case.

I don’t know if I made myself as clear as I wanted to - but I hope you will understand what I was attempting to put across!

God Bless
 
It has been said before that they are more like deadly inclinations. All of us have some of them, if not all, to some degree. The thing is, all of them can not only lead to mortal sin, they can become mortal sin if left unchecked
 
raphinal is refering to what the Church calls concupiscence(please forgive me if my spelling is incorrect)

These inclinations/weaknesses are not necessarily sins but they are the basis for all serious sin.

Deadly and mortal are inter-changeable terms. We see this clearly in th 1st letter of John. Bible translations use either the word “deadly”, “mortal”, or even the term “unto death.”
 
If someone cuts me off in traffic and almost causes me to crash, me getting angry is not a mortal sin…even letting out a swear word or 2…its the heat and adrenaline of the moment. If however, we get to a red lite and I decide to exit my car and punch the driver out…yeah…thats anger as a mortal sin… 😃
 
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ppcpilot:
What about lust? how can you lust and not sin?
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By immediately recognizing lustful thoughts for what they are and turning your mind to something else, like a Hail Mary, or an Our Father.

DaveBj
 
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ppcpilot:
What about lust? how can you lust and not sin?
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A priest once told me: “A thousand temptations can not equal one sin”

Lustful thoughts are tempting, lest you act on your thoughts, than it becomes a sin.
 
But didn’t Jesus say something like “whoever looks at a married person with lust commits adultery in his heart?”

sorry, I don’t remember the exact wording.
 
**Is deadly sin a mortal sin? **
**Catechism Of The Catholic Church
THE GRAVITY OF SIN: MORTAL AND VENIAL SIN

1854** Sins are rightly evaluated according to their gravity. The distinction between mortal and venial sin, already evident in Scripture,[129] became part of the tradition of the Church.
Footnote 129: Cf. 1 Jn 5:16-17.

There is such a thing as deadly sin, about which I do not say that you should pray. All wrongdoing is sin, but there is sin that is not deadly.
1 John 5:16-17 NAB

If any one sees his brother committing what is not a mortal sin, he will ask, and God will give him life for those whose sin is not mortal. There is sin which is mortal; I do not say that one is to pray for that. All wrongdoing is sin, but there is sin which is not mortal.
1 John 5:16-17 RSVCE
The Catechism quotes 1 John 5:16-17 in footnote 129 as the scriptures that support the distinction between mortal sin and venial sin. In the quoted scriptures, the Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition uses the word “mortal sin” and the New American Bible uses the term “deadly sin”. Thus we can see that “deadly sin” and “mortal sin” are the same thing.

How does one commit mortal sin?
**Catechism Of The Catholic Church

1859** Mortal sin requires full knowledge and complete consent. It presupposes knowledge of the sinful character of the act, of its opposition to God’s law. It also implies a consent sufficiently deliberate to be a personal choice. Feigned ignorance and hardness of heart do not diminish, but rather increase, the voluntary character of a sin.
Our concupiscence inclines us to vice, not virtue. With God’s grace we can avoid the capital sins and develop virtue.
**Catechism Of The Catholic Church

1866** Vices can be classified according to the virtues they oppose, or also be linked to the capital sins which Christian experience has distinguished, following St. John Cassian and St. Gregory the Great. They are called “capital” because they engender other sins, other vices. They are pride, avarice, envy, wrath, lust, gluttony, and sloth or acedia.
 
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Hudsonite:
There are 7 deadly sins: Pride,covetousness, lust, anger, envy, gluttony and sloth. Capital sins are also called deadly sins.
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I think that those 7 are known as the Seven Capital Sins, not the 7 deadly sins. They are capital sins because they can lead us into other sins or habits of sin. Capital sins can be either mortal or venial depending on the usual conditions.

‘Deadly’ sins are by definition mortal.

JimG
 
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Chris101:
But didn’t Jesus say something like “whoever looks at a married person with lust commits adultery in his heart?”

sorry, I don’t remember the exact wording.
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NAB, Matthew 5:28 “But I say to you, everyone who looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart”.
 
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DaveBj:
By immediately recognizing lustful thoughts for what they are and turning your mind to something else, like a Hail Mary, or an Our Father.

DaveBj
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But, then, is it really lust? Isn’t it just a temptation? If i am tempted to steal, that’s not theft. If I DO steal, then it is theft.
 
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JimG:
I think that those 7 are known as the Seven Capital Sins, not the 7 deadly sins. They are capital sins because they can lead us into other sins or habits of sin.

‘Deadly’ sins are by definition mortal.

JimG
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Actually the Seven Capital sins are also referred to sometimes as the Seven Deadly sins.

I don’t think “deadly” necessarily always refers to mortal, because of the Capital/deadly sins which may or may not always be mortal - but i myself am wondering about that
 
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thisismyusrname:
But, then, is it really lust? Isn’t it just a temptation? If i am tempted to steal, that’s not theft. If I DO steal, then it is theft.
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Theft is a sin that is performed by the body. Lust is a sin that is performed by the mind.

The momentary entry of a lustful thought into the mind is the “bird flying over the head” that the old proverb mentions. Replace that thought with something else, and there is no sin. Dwelling on that thought and playing it over and over becomes the other part of the proverb–“allowing them to build a nest in your hair.” That is where momentary lustful thoughts become the actual sin of lust.

Incidentally, if you dwell on the temptation to steal, that becomes the sin of covetousness, but that’s for another thread.

DaveBj
 
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