The Deadly Sins

If you are a long term reader, then you already know my mind does not travel the common road.  Rather, it begins where something normal lives and then traverses a road of bizarre occurrences, eventually ending up with something not even related to the topic and usually humorous.   

"Whatcha thinking?"

"Oh, nothing...."  (....that you want to hear or would understand as coming from a logical thought process!)

Yeah.

So, something one in my Sunday School class said, brought to mind the Seven Deadly Sins, and I was instantly stymied trying to remember what they were.  No idea how I got from Jonah to there, but it happened somehow and here they are!

From King Salomon's book of Proverbs 6:16–19 : the"six things the Lord hateth, and the seventh His soul detesteth.", namely:

1. A proud look.
2. A lying tongue.
3. Hands that shed innocent blood.
4. A heart that devises wicked plots.
5. Feet that are swift to run into mischief.
6. A deceitful witness that uttereth lies.
7. Him that soweth discord among brethren.

Another list, this time written by the Apostle Paul, in Galatians 5:19-21, includes more of the traditional seven sins, although the list is substantially longer: 

1. Adultery
2. Fornication
3. Uncleanness
4. Lasciviousness
5. Idolatry
6. Sorcery
7. Hatred
8. Variance
9. Emulations
10. Wrath
11. Strife
12. Seditions
13. Heresies
14. Envyings
15. Murders
16. Drunkenness
17. Revellings
18.  "and such like"

Since the Apostle Paul goes on to say that the persons who commit these sins "shall not inherit the Kingdom of God", they are usually listed as  mortal sins.

So, just based on this alone, one would imagine that being Jewish is much easier!  But, of course, being under the The Law (of Moses) was a much harder way to go, than compared to the relative freedom of being under Christian forgiveness.  How so?  Because, if you are a Christian and you are walking on His path, you are not going to be running into too many of Salomon's or Paul's list items.  

Well, let me correct that - you will not be committing those items, you will be running into them constantly being committed by other Christians.....  

We are our own worse enemies and somehow God finds it in His will to continue to forgive us.

Now as for the more normal list, you and I both may know as the, The Seven Deadly Sins..... 


In 590 AD, Pope Gregory I (of the Roman Catholic Church) composed his list to form the Seven Deadly Sins. In the order used by both Pope Gregory and later by Dante, in his poem The Divine Comedy, the seven deadly sins are as follows:

1. Lust
2. Gluttony
3. Greed
4. Sloth
5. Wrath
6. Envy
7. Pride