What makes us unclean?

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Often people cite the 7 deadly sins, or breaking the ten commandments as the most grevious sins. Here is what Jesus said makes us unclean:

MARK 7:20 He went on: "What comes out of a man is what makes him ‘unclean.’ 21For from within, out of men’s hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, 22greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. 23All these evils come from inside and make a man ‘unclean.’"

There are 13 sins, and in my opinion, the best summation of grevious sins.
 
Hmm… 7 + 10 + 13 = 30 sins

Dont forget Jesus’ 3 commandments:
  1. Love God
  2. Love your neighbor as yourself
  3. Love one another as I have loved you
Hmm… they all say love don’t they? Maybe there’s only
one commandment.
 
I didn’t really mean to kill the discussion. So many people
seem to believe that they don’t need to observe any of the
10 commandments because they say they are a loving
person. They believe they are free in Christ to do whatever they
please and God doesn’t mind, because He is all loving. This
is so not true. When we find out God doesn’t like something,
we should not do it at all.

There are a couple more lists in the Bible of things people do
wrong. One is Galations 5:19-21, I don’t remember where the
other one is. You can read the list, and possibly find yourself
on there. Then comes the warning, “I warn you, as I have
warned you before, those who do such things will not inherit
the kingdom of God!”
 
CHRISTINE77 said:
Often people cite the 7 deadly sins, or breaking the ten commandments as the most grevious sins. Here is what Jesus said makes us unclean:

MARK 7:20 He went on: "What comes out of a man is what makes him ‘unclean.’ 21For from within, out of men’s hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, 22greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. 23All these evils come from inside and make a man ‘unclean.’"

There are 13 sins, and in my opinion, the best summation of grevious sins.
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I find it odd that arrogance is almost last. Arrogance is often the root of so many of these sins.

I also noticed that drunkenness is not in there, although maybe its classified under “lewdness”? What about sloth?

Doesn’t Paul list various sins in Romans and 1 Corinthians?
 
Interesting enough last night on EWTN, I watched Fr. Corapi. He was talking about sin, more or less about mortal. Unclensliness has to do more with the sins we commit. Christine77 you do make a good point and so do you Cheeto. If we could obey the 1st commandment, we wouldn’t need the other 9, because of putting God always first.(Fr. Corapi’s words not mine) Back in OT animals were sacrificed for uncleansines and cleaness alike. Another program on EWTN mentioned that it isn’t really what we consume as food, but what comes out of body and soul as far as doing God’s will. Hope that puts some clarity in add to the emphasis the Christine77 and Cheeto brought in earlier.
 
tobinatorstark said:
I Another program on EWTN mentioned that it isn’t really what we consume as food, but what comes out of body and soul as far as doing God’s will. Hope that puts some clarity in add to the emphasis the Christine77 and Cheeto brought in earlier.
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Yes that’s very true Tobinator - and here is Mark 7:18 (in your Douay Rheims version!) to prove it:

And he saith to them: So are you also without knowledge? understand you not that every thing from without, entering into a man cannot defile him: 19 Because it entereth not into his heart, but goeth into the belly, and goeth out into the privy, purging all meats? 20 But he said that the things which come out from a man, they defile a man. 21 For from within out of the heart of men proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, 22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. 23 All these evil things come from within, and defile a man.
 
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Yes that’s very true Tobinator - and here is Mark 7:18 (in your Douay Rheims version!) to prove it:

And he saith to them: So are you also without knowledge? understand you not that every thing from without, entering into a man cannot defile him: 19 Because it entereth not into his heart, but goeth into the belly, and goeth out into the privy, purging all meats? 20 But he said that the things which come out from a man, they defile a man. 21 For from within out of the heart of men proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, 22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. 23 All these evil things come from within, and defile a man.
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Ironically this Gospel passage was the Gospel reading last week Both the OT and Gospel readings on Sunday also contributed to unclean with examples of those who had leparcy. Jesus is the one who takes away the sins of the world and makes us clean again. I just had found that interesting Where ever I went that day unclean was a theme.
 
Folly?

Isn’t that more like being foolish or mistaken? If you can’t know what you don’t know, how is that a sin?
 
Sailor_Kenshin said:
Folly?

Isn’t that more like being foolish or mistaken? If you can’t know what you don’t know, how is that a sin?
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God defines foolishness as “the wisdom of this world”:

“… the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God” (1 Corinthians 3:19).

In contrast to heavenly wisdom (James 3:14-17; 1 Corinthians 2:6-7), worldly wisdom exalts self, focuses on the present, trusts the flesh, and relies only on what it can see or do for itself. Although the schools, cultures, governments, religions, and media of this world endorse and promote it, the “wisdom of this world” is nothing but foolishness (Romans 1:22; 1 Corinthians 1:20).

God says that man thinks in his heart (Hebrews 4:12; Matthew 9:4; Proverbs 23:7; Isaiah 10:7). The “thought of foolishness,” therefore, is a heart problem. God also says that as a man “thinketh in his heart, so is he” (Proverbs 23:7). Because his thoughts control him, any man who thinks a “thought of foolishness” must therefore be a fool. The “thought of foolishness,” then, must be the way that a fool thinks in his heart.

How a Fool Thinks
The Bible explains how a fool thinks in his heart:

“THE fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. …” (Psalm 14:1 and 53:1).

“… God is not in all his thoughts” (Psalm 10:4).

A fool thinks in a way that ignores and thus denies the existence of God (Romans 1:21-22), refusing to receive the things of God (1 Corinthians 2:14). His consequent actions acknowledge God no more than do those of an animal (Psalm 73:22). That means, of course, that a man doesn’t have to be an “atheist” to think like one, because any thought that does not include God is an atheistic one!

Jesus told a parable about a rich man whose plans for the future did not include God. For that reason, God called that man a fool.

“But God said to him, Thou fool, this night thy soul is required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided? So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God” (Luke 12:20).

this is from: sluiceboxadventures.com/endtime_messages/Coats5.htm
 
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