To what extent are mortal sins forgivable?

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Marry Smart:
Confession/repentance? At all?
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All mortal sins are forgiven if you attend confession with a contrite heart and confess them
 
Are you asking if one must go to confession in order to be forgiven of a mortal sin? Or are you asking if mortal sins can be forgiven? Please clarify. 🙂
 
To the point where they are forgotten by God. Isn’t that a wonderful thought?
 
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Fergal:
To the point where they are forgotten by God. Isn’t that a wonderful thought?
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Amen Fergal, this is my salvation
 
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jrabs:
All mortal sins are forgiven if you attend confession with a contrite heart and confess them
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HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! RIIIGHT!! You honestly believe that this will repent your so-called sins? I hate to break it to you but what you call “sinning” is only natural and is not to be looked down upon. You people are ignorant fools.
 
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AntonLaVey5446:
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! RIIIGHT!! You honestly believe that this will repent your so-called sins? I hate to break it to you but what you call “sinning” is only natural and is not to be looked down upon. You people are ignorant fools.
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Not exactly sure how you are contributing to this thread???

AntonLaVey5446, you appear to not believe in sin? This is a strang thing. I honestly think everyone when pushed to it believes in sin. Even if we totally ignore the theological dimension to sin, ultimately sin is to do something you aught not to do (morally). Unless you are a completely a-moral person (rejecting all morality) then I think you implicitly believe in sin.

If you don’t believe in sin at all maybe you aught to start your own thread and people can discuss that issue with you…
 
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matthias:
Not exactly sure how you are contributing to this thread???

AntonLaVey5446, you appear to not believe in sin? This is a strang thing. I honestly think everyone when pushed to it believes in sin. Even if we totally ignore the theological dimension to sin, ultimately sin is to do something you aught not to do (morally). Unless you are a completely a-moral person (rejecting all morality) then I think you implicitly believe in sin.

If you don’t believe in sin at all maybe you aught to start your own thread and people can discuss that issue with you…
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Eh…I like commenting on other’s threads, although I ought to be more conciderate of others views, shouldn’t I? Hmm…well…I believe that each person has their own belief system of what they believe is “right” or “wrong”, “good” or “bad”. However, this belief, I believe should be sought upon by the individual alone and should not be inforced my the Church, or by any other individual(s).
 
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AntonLaVey5446:
But the concept of sinning is subjective.
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No, actually, it is very objective.

It is subjectivity that attempts to twist sin into something normal and natural.

So, what year are you in high school? Just curious, as you sound quite young.
 
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otm:
No, actually, it is very objective.

It is subjectivity that attempts to twist sin into something normal and natural.

So, what year are you in high school? Just curious, as you sound quite young.
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No, actually I am 21. I have never been convinced that sin is objective. Not that I did, but you put up no argument and you have to sink to my level of what you assume to be the limited knowledge of a high school student.
 
AntonLaVey5446 ,Start a new thread and we’ll all have a nice discussion about this topic, but I hate to hijack this thread from someone who was inquiring about mortal sin.

Actually… here… I’ll start one for you…

Here you go AntonLaVey5446
Your thread
 
Anyway, mortal sin…
This is sin that “breaks our friendship/relationship” with God. It is more severe than venial sin but ALL sin is forgivable because God is infinitly mercyful.
 
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matthias:
… ALL sin is forgivable because God is infinitly mercyful.
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There is sin that is unforgivable.

The sin whereby we say God cannot forgive sin, is unforgivable if persisted in til death. Our sin remains because we do not let God take it from us.

Mark 3:29 But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost, shall never have forgiveness, but shall be guilty of an everlasting sin.

A related sin is the sin of ingratitude, whereby we do not give to others what has been given to us:

Matthew 6:14 For if you will forgive men their offences, your heavenly Father will forgive you also your offences. 15 But if you will not forgive men, neither will your Father forgive you your offences.

Both of these are in our power to overcome. So let us foster hope and faith in the mercy of God! And let us do this by having charity and showing mercy to those who sin against us.

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Blaspheming against the Holy Ghost is unforgivable.
As a matter of fact, there is a Bible passage that proves that
point. Here it is: Luke 12:10 : And whosoever speaketh a word
against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but to him that
shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven.
 
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matthias:
Any Sin can be forgiven.
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Fraternal correction my dear friend. There is a sin that cannot be forgiven. That sin is the sin against the Holy Spirit. Jesus himself spoke about it in Matt. 12:22-32; Mark 3:22-30; and Luke 12:10.

This sin is the sin of obstinately refusing to accept God’s mercy.

Oh look AntonLaVey5446 seems to be guilty of it!! 😉
 
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Fergal:
Fraternal correction my dear friend. There is a sin that cannot be forgiven. That sin is the sin against the Holy Spirit. Jesus himself spoke about it in Matt. 12:22-32; Mark 3:22-30; and Luke 12:10.

This sin is the sin of obstinately refusing to accept God’s mercy.

Oh look AntonLaVey5446 seems to be guilty of it!! 😉
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This is out of order.

And trying to define it as “Fraternal Correction” is nauseating.

You have no right whatsoever to judge the state of the soul of another Child of God, your smiley face notwithstanding.

The Church herself refuses to presume that any particular person is in hell. But by saying that another poster is guilty of an unforgivable sin you see fit to set yourself up in a place that even the Church won’t presume to go. How disgusting.
 
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BillP:
This is out of order.

And trying to define it as “Fraternal Correction” is nauseating.

You have no right whatsoever to judge the state of the soul of another Child of God, your smiley face notwithstanding.

The Church herself refuses to presume that any particular person is in hell. But by saying that another poster is guilty of an unforgivable sin you see fit to set yourself up in a place that even the Church won’t presume to go. How disgusting.
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:clapping: Way to go BillP. Take a chill pill.:rolleyes:
If you didn’t notice we were referred to as ignorant fools. I have no problem if you accept that this is what you are but I for one will not be called an ignorant fool.

Anyone who scorns and refuses the Confessional is scorning and refusing God’s mercy. Is this not the sin spoken about?

By the way the fraternal correction was for matthias.
 
Fergal said:
:clapping: Way to go BillP. Take a chill pill.:rolleyes:
If you didn’t notice we were referred to as ignorant fools. I have no problem if you accept that this is what you are but I for one will not be called an ignorant fool.
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So feel justified in violating the virtue of Charity and tell another poster that he has committed an unforgiveable sin and is (since his sin is unforgiveable) going to spend eternity in Hell? Because he called some one a name? Give me a break.

The Church refuses to assume that anyone is in Hell. Not Hitler, not Stalin , not Jeffery Dalmer NO ONE. But you in your inifinite wisdom believe that you can do so?
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Fergal:
Anyone who scorns and refuses the Confessional is scorning and refusing God’s mercy. Is this not the sin spoken about?
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No the Sin spoken about is according to
Dominum et Vivificantem

Encyclical Letter of Pope John Paul II on the Holy Spirit (May 18, 1986)
Why is blasphemy against the Holy Spirit unforgivable? How should this blasphemy be understood? Saint Thomas Aquinas replies that it is a question of a sin that is "unforgivable by its very nature, insofar as it excludes the elements through which the forgiveness of sin takes place. [183]
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According to such an exegesis, “blasphemy” does not properly consist in offending against the Holy Spirit in words; it consists rather in the refusal to accept the salvation which God offers to man through the Holy Spirit, working through the power of the Cross. If man rejects the " convincing concerning sin" which comes from the Holy Spirit and which has the power to save, he also rejects the “coming” of the Counsellor – that “coming” which was accomplished in the Paschal Mystery, in union with the redemptive power of Christ’s Blood: the Blood which “purifies the conscience from dead works”.
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We know that the result of such a purification is the forgiveness of sins. Therefore, whoever rejects the Spirit and the Blood remains in “dead works”, in sin. And the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit consists precisely in the radical refusal to accept this forgiveness of which he is the intimate giver and which presupposes the genuine conversion which he brings about in the conscience. If Jesus says that blasphemy against the Holy Spirit cannot be forgiven either in this life or in the next, it is because this “non-forgiveness” is linked, as to its cause, to “non-repentance”, in other words to the radical refusal to be converted.
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And it is manfestly obvious from his posts on this thread that he is engaged in a search for the truth. Why do you think he’s here? Does he have a lot to learn? of course. Does he need to be a bit less temerate in his writing? undoubtedly. Has he blashphemed against the Holy Spirity thus comdemning hims elf to Hell for all enternity? Not even close.

I believe he suffers from the impetuosity of youth, but what do I know.
 
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