What is the essence of all sins?

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Why sin is sin exactly? Is it because every sin is self centeredness and putting ourselces in first place.
Even before God?
And whoever is first is gonna be last. Is that what Jesus had in mind?

Living holiness is
  1. God
  2. Others
  3. Ourself
 
It’s pride — thinking that you know more than God knows, that what you want is more important than what God wants, that created temporal goods are preferable to the uncreated, transcendent good that is God Himself.

Remember that the serpent told Eve that she would not die if she ate of the tree, even though God had told her that she would. That’s how it all got started.
 
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Why sin is sin exactly? Is it because every sin is self centeredness and putting ourselces in first place.
Even before God?
And whoever is first is gonna be last. Is that what Jesus had in mind?

Living holiness is
  1. God
  2. Others
  3. Ourself
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With regard to eternal life, worldly status will not matter for those that are justified.

Without choosing love in the end, it will not be possible to become sharers in the divinity of Christ.

Catechism
1849 Sin is an offense against reason, truth, and right conscience; it is failure in genuine love for God and neighbor caused by a perverse attachment to certain goods. It wounds the nature of man and injures human solidarity. It has been defined as "an utterance, a deed, or a desire contrary to the eternal law."121

1850 Sin is an offense against God: "Against you, you alone, have I sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight."122 Sin sets itself against God’s love for us and turns our hearts away from it. Like the first sin, it is disobedience, a revolt against God through the will to become "like gods,"123 knowing and determining good and evil. Sin is thus "love of oneself even to contempt of God."124 In this proud self- exaltation, sin is diametrically opposed to the obedience of Jesus, which achieves our salvation.125
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May I suggest focusing less on Sin and more on Gods glory my friend.

Remember God hates sin.
 
Just two weeks ago one of our priests said all sin begins with pride.
 
Pride is one of the deadly sins. Stops people forgiving one another.
 
I’ve been there more than once, it is someplace I’d recommend to every “bucket list”!
 
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