Stealing?

[FAH]

If you go to a farm where you can pick your own Raspberries, Gooseberries etc… When your done picking they weigh the punnet/ container and charge you based on the weight. Well as I was going round the person I was with offered me one of the picked Raspberries I took one and ate it forgetting that it hadn’t been paid for. Have I committed a venial or mortal sin of stealing?

 

[1ke]

No.

You are being scrupulous.

 

[zizki1974]

I think that’s part of the raspberry picking “experience”. You pay for the one’s you eat because the cost is higher (than at the grocery store) and you get a bonus payment of pesticides because they haven’t been washed Don’t worry.

 

[CountrySteve]

If you go to a farm where you can pick your own Raspberries, Gooseberries etc… When your done picking they weigh the punnet/ container and charge you based on the weight. Well as I was going round the person I was with offered me one of the picked Raspberries I took one and ate it forgetting that it hadn’t been paid for. Have I committed a venial or mortal sin of stealing?

lol no your ight, but aww this post reminds me of they days i used to work on a strawberry field i used to eat them too and the boss didn’t care that much now i cant stand store bought strawberries i think their gross

 

[Earnest_Bunbury]

He is not being scrupulous. It is exactly what ones reasoning power is supposed to be used for, determining when one is acting or has acted incorrectly. If the above is scrupulous, the only way to not be scrupulous would be to not think about ones actions. We have enough of that already.

There are several reasons why this does not approach serious sin, or even minor sin, but the taking of something is wrong and the OP is correct in recognizing this. How big or how valuable does something have to be for stealing to start being wrong? Doing what is right sometimes requires a lot of personal deliberation that if we avoid due to a mistaken notion of “scrupulous”, we will begin to see only the big sins as that which constitutes “wrong”. Be perfect, Matt 5:48, does not seem to be a relative perfection but a call to holiness that befits the dignity of man as made in the image of God.

 

[FAH]

Thank you all. God bless.

I don’t believe the sin to be mortal because the action was not premeditated. I simply responded to the offer of another without thinking about what I was doing.