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Patrick
21st November 2004, 02:41 AM
The seven deadly sins:

ENVY

SLOTH

GLUTTONY

WRATH

PRIDE

LUST

GREED

I don't know if these came from the bible or writings by theologians. Every one of them is built into the human psyche, mostly as motivations for survival. Probably almost everyone has been guilty of all of them at one time or another - i.e., they are intrinsically part of being human. Now, why would God create man with the inclination to all of these, and then forbid them? It sounds like a sick joke, or some perverse lab experiment where rats that try to eat get an electrical shock instead.
Xeriar
21st November 2004, 02:44 AM
It's Catholic theology. I don't really find the Evangelical 'all sin is equal in God's eyes' any better though.
Ladewig
21st November 2004, 07:26 AM
Originally posted by Patrick
The seven deadly sins:

ENVY

SLOTH

GLUTTONY

WRATH

PRIDE

LUST

GREED

I don't know if these came from the bible or writings by theologians. Every one of them is built into the human psyche, mostly as motivations for survival. Probably almost everyone has been guilty of all of them at one time or another - i.e., they are intrinsically part of being human. Now, why would God create man with the inclination to all of these, and then forbid them? It sounds like a sick joke, or some perverse lab experiment where rats that try to eat get an electrical shock instead.

Might these "motivations for survival" be useful when applied in moderate amounts and be perverse when applied in grossly exaggerated amounts?

Wouldn't the lab experiment analogy be closer to shocking a rat that tries to eat its own weight in food pellets everyday?
Patrick
21st November 2004, 12:23 PM
Might these "motivations for survival" be useful when applied in moderate amounts and be perverse when applied in grossly exaggerated amounts?

They might indeed, but I don't believe Christian doctrine sanctions moderate amounts of sloth, greed, wrath, etc. Also, gluttony, for one, implies "excess". The inclination toward gluttony is probably just a survival mechanism -- eat all you can now, because the famine may arrive next week.