Organizing Sins for Protestants

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To Protestants, I wanted to know if you organized sins as the Catholics do. Do you use the terms mortal and venial or do you do something else to organize them?

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Hopefully they profess them to the Lord as The Bible commands.
 
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Protestants do not use the terms mortal and venial. It actually seems odd to us to make the distinction. Most Protestants would argue that all sins separate us from God, but that Christ’s blood would cover them all, given faith and repentance.
 
Protestants (at least the variety I’m familiar with) do somewhat organize sins, just not in the way Catholics do. Scripture makes it clear there are degrees of guilt and punishment. By extension, that must mean there are varieties of sin. This is seen in the Old Testament when looking at the various categories of sacrifices corresponding to the various kinds of sins (Leviticus 4-7). In the New Testament, we see degrees of guilt suggested as well: Luke 12:47-48; John 19:11; Romans 2:6; Hebrews 2:2-3; 10:28-29.

There are:
  1. *Sins of nature and sins of personal transgression. * We are sinners because of inborn sin, but we have greater guilt when we, sinners by nature, commit acts of personal transgression.
  2. Sins of ignorance and sins of knowledge. The greater the knowledge, the greater the guilt.
  3. Sins of infirmity and sins of presumption. Another way of understanding this contrast is in terms of sins of impulse and sins of deliberation. For example, David’s sin against Bathsheba was one of impulse; while his sin against Uriah was deliberate and carefully planned.
(Source: Foundations of Pentecostal Theology, pp. 177-178)
 
RedDuke50 said:
To Protestants, I wanted to know if you organized sins as the Catholics do. Do you use the terms mortal and venial or do you do something else to organize them?

Thank you †
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I prefer to call myself a Christian first then a Presbyterian-Catholic-Thingamajig
Most Protestants will tell you that all sin separate us from God. This is indeed true. But it throws open a huge bag of cats for the protestant theologian resulting in the absolutely bonkers idea of **Once Saved Always Saved **doctrine which in turn leads to the idea that if everyone were to get saved tomorrow no one would go to hell. This strange artefact of protestant belief is what lead to Calvinism. Calvinism is the strange idea that God has pre-ordained your fate i.e you have no control over your own salvation. What that means is that if you got saved tomorrow but went to hell when you died it would be for one of two reasons. The first being that you never meant to get saved in the first place. And the second your fate was decided before you were born. And they say the Protestant churches have no mysteries!
All this confusion comes from three simple truths the Protestant churches refuse to recognise = 1.THAT THERE ARE INDEED TWO TYPES OF SIN. VENIAL ie LITTLE SINS or MORTAL ie MEGA SINS.
The second truth that Protestant churches cannot accept as a result of refuting the first truth is = 2. PURGATORY.
The third truth is = CONFESSION.
My brain is going into meltdown:coolinoff:
 
RedDuke50 said:
To Protestants, I wanted to know if you organized sins as the Catholics do. Do you use the terms mortal and venial or do you do something else to organize them?

Thank you †
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Only Roman Catholics organize sins in such a manner. Eastern Catholics and Orthodox do not.
 
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Protestants do not use the terms mortal and venial. It actually seems odd to us to make the distinction. Most Protestants would argue that all sins separate us from God, but that Christ’s blood would cover them all, given faith and repentance.
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1 John 5:16-17 RSV - If anyone sees his brother committing what is not a mortal [deadly] 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 *.

Webster’s, Venial: A sin that does not deprive the soul of divine grace, either because it is a minor offense or because it was committed without full consent or understanding of its seriousness.

John 19:11 RSV - Jesus answered him, "You would have no power over me unless it had been given you from above; therefore who delivered me to you has the greater sin. Jesus himself says there are degrees of sin.

Jim Dandy
Ex-Southern Baptist, ex-agnostic, ex-atheist, ecstatic to be Catholic!*
 
Sin is sin, God hates all sin. In confession, we confess the sins of omission and commission. it is impossible to remember all your sins. We are covered by Christ’s Righteousness. The only sin that is not covered is the sin against the Holy Spirit, that is if we walk away from our baptism.
 
I would classify types of sin as two types:
  1. anything you do that would displease God.
  2. the sin of failing to repent for #1
Jesus Died on the Cross to serve the spiritual punishment for all of the #1 type of sins for you. However if you refuse to repent then that punishment is NOT taken for you. #2 above is not forgivable because you are rejecting the gift Jesus died to give us.
 
Jim_Dandy said:
1 John 5:16-17 RSV - If anyone sees his brother committing what is not a mortal [deadly] 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 *.

Webster’s, Venial*: A sin that does not deprive the soul of divine grace, either because it is a minor offense or because it was committed without full consent or understanding of its seriousness.

John 19:11 RSV - Jesus answered him, "You would have no power over me unless it had been given you from above; therefore who delivered me to you has the greater sin. Jesus himself says there are degrees of sin.

Jim Dandy
Ex-Southern Baptist, ex-agnostic, ex-atheist, ecstatic to be Catholic!

Sure, I think that most protestants would agree that there are degrees of sin. That’s been addressed already on this thread. Per your bible verses from 1 John, I think that it makes sense that if you have a friend that is committing a venial sin (I’m not sure what that is) and the unforgivable sin of unbelief, you should address the unbelief first. We would argue that the blood of Christ was shed for all sins for those who repent and believe. God’s holiness doesn’t tolerate any sin. What’s the difference in Catholic theology? Does only mortal sin separate you from God?
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For one to say a sin,for example killing a friend and another sin like, lying about how much money you have in your pocket,are equal? To say God is blind to that is only an insult to God. To say all sin pulls us astray from God is not same to say all sin is equal.
 
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