Visual Representation - Part 9

Buy the book: The Seven Deadly Sins

I borrewed the readings from two websites.

Here is what the All About God website has to say - http://www.allaboutgod.com/what-are-the-sevendeadly-sins-faq.htm

What Are The Seven Deadly Sins

QUESTION: What are the seven deadly sins?

ANSWER:

Many people are asking, “What are the seven deadly sins?” The seven deadly sins viewed by society and literature are:

1. Lust – to have an intense desire or need: “But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart” (Matthew 5:28).
2. Gluttony – excess in eating and drinking: “for drunkards and gluttons become poor, and drowsiness clothes them in rags” (Proverbs 23:21).
3. Greed - excessive or reprehensible acquisitiveness: “Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for more” (Ephesians 4:19).
4. Laziness – disinclined to activity or exertion: not energetic or vigorous: “The way of the sluggard is blocked with thorns, but the path of the upright is a highway” (Proverbs 15:19).
5. Wrath – strong vengeful anger or indignation: “A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger” (Proverbs 15:1)
6. Envy – painful or resentful awareness of an advantage enjoyed by another joined with a desire to possess the same advantage: “Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind. Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation” (1 Peter 2:1-2).
7. Pride - quality or state of being proud – inordinate self esteem: “Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall” (Proverbs 16:18).

What are the seven detestable sins according to the Bible?

• “There are six things the Lord hates, seven that are detestable to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil, a false witness who pours out lies and a man who stirs up dissension among brothers” (Proverbs 6:16-19).
• One of our church leaders recently spoke on Acts 5:11. He mentioned how Ananias and Sapphira sold property and would give the proceeds to the church. However, they held back some of the money but said that they had given the entire proceeds. God’s judgment was immediate death. The sin of Ananias and Sapphira was not that they kept some of the profit, but that they lied to God and to the Apostles.
• Such immediate result is not the usual way God deals with us today. However, judgment and retribution for our sins are part of God’s way of running a balanced moral universe. We need to get the message across that we do not go on sinning thinking that we won’t have to reckon with God and others.
• When we receive Christ as our Lord and Savior, we know He has conquered sin in our life. It is through His death that our sins have been cleansed and no longer to be remembered. Jesus’ life makes the difference.
• "Blessed are they whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will never count against him” (Romans 4:7-8).
• Seven Deadly Sins - Learn More!
• WHAT DO YOU THINK? - We have all sinned and deserve God's judgment. God, the Father, sent His only Son to satisfy that judgment for those who believe in Him. Jesus, the creator and eternal Son of God, who lived a sinless life, loves us so much that He died for our sins, taking the punishment that we deserve, was buried, and rose from the dead according to theBible. If you truly believe and trust this in your heart, receiving Jesus alone as your Savior, declaring, "Jesus is Lord," you will be saved from judgment and spend eternity with God in heaven.

7 Passion Sins and Virtues

User's Guide to Sunday

BY TOM AND APRIL HOOPES, REGISTER CORRESPONDENT 

Friday, Apr 01, 2011 12:43 PM

Sunday, April 17, is Passion (Palm) Sunday (Year A, Cycle I), the beginning of Holy Week.

http://www.ncregister.com/site/article/7-passion-sins-and-virtues/

Readings

The Procession: Matthew 21:1-11, Psalm 24, Psalm 47

Mass: Isaiah 50:4-7; Psalm 22:8-9, 17-20, 23-24; Philippians 2:6-11; Matthew 26:14–27:66 or 27:11-54

Our Take

Christ’s passion is a good remedial lesson in the seven deadly sins. Be on the lookout for all seven

during the reading — and look for them in your heart.

1. Pride: When Jesus is in disrepute, Peter’s pride does not allow him to stand by his friend.
2. Avarice: Judas was led to his betrayal of Christ through complicated motives, but love of money was a major corrosive element for him.
3. Envy: The Sanhedrin made theological mistakes regarding Jesus, but envy of Jesus’ success is the engine that drives their passion.
4. Wrath: The crowd that shouts, “Crucify him!” indulges in the anger and hatred of wrath, which apes and mocks true desire for justice.
5. Lust: The story of the Passion doesn’t depict any impure physical desire, but “lust” can be likened to all sensuality. This we find in the apostles’ unwillingness to stay awake and pray in the Garden.
6. Gluttony: It is suggestive that the betrayer is given away because he “dips his hand in the bowl with me.” For him, this is one meal that was definitely more about the food than the company.
7. Sloth: The sin of acedia (sloth) isn’t exactly “laziness.” It is the torpor of not caring about doing the right thing. Pilate starts to understand the wrong in what he is doing, but he does it anyway.

Of course, the Gospel is here to teach us virtue, not merely to recognize sin. Christ shows the opposite virtues from these capital sins.

1. Humility: Jesus is the model of humility, as he accepts an ignominious death, renouncing pride.
2. Charity: Jesus shares his Passover meal even with those who are going to betray and abandon him; this is the opposite of avarice.
3. Love: Far from being caught up in envy, which tries to harm rivals, Jesus gives his enemies chances to do the right thing — and forgives them as they attack him.
4. Patience: While wrath apes justice as it destroys it, Jesus’ long-suffering acceptance of the faults of his apostles is what saves them in the end.
5. Chastity: The way Jesus accepts the sufferings of the cross shows the self-discipline necessary for chastity and the antithesis of lust.
6. Temperance: There is no gluttony in Jesus. Rather than using food as a comfort or using wine to deaden his pain, Jesus uses food as a way to unite with his apostles and refuses to drink on the cross.
7. Diligence: Jesus shows the opposite of Pilate’s spiritual sluggishness when he says, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me; yet, not as I will, but as you will.”

Tom and April Hoopes write from Atchison, Kansas, where Tom is writer in residence at Benedictine

College.

Read more: http://www.ncregister.com/site/article/7-passion-sins-andvirtues/#ixzz3nDMq9fQc

Wrath/Anger: Mr Personality being *angry*

Gluttony: Pigging out and binge-drinking to the point where one makes oneself sick

Sloth: laziness or lack of diligence, not doing your share of the work

Lust: usually means an excessive desire for something, mainly sex

Pride: usually an excessive level of self-esteem, resulting in being a show-off and douche-bag (like Mr Muscle who is depicted showing off his body); also known as 'narcissism'

Envy: Often known as 'jealousy' and usually is characterized as resentment of those one perceives as 'having it easy'

Avarice: Also known as greed, in the sense that one is excessively 'aquisitive' and values money and material posessions above all else