Subject: What are Mortal and Venial sinis |
Bible Note: Dear Emmaus, Please do not take offense. As I said I was raised a Catholic. I was saved WHEN I WAS A CATHOLIC, as a Catholic, while reading my Catholic Bible. I am not saying this to "dis" the Catholic Church. I was taught by the Catholic Church that there were venial and mortal sins and that there was a purgatory. I was taught all about miracles and Jesus Christ. However, I was never told that I could have a conversion experience or have any such thing as an encounter with Jesus Christ the Savior of my soul. Not only that, according to Catholic church doctrine, I was practicing birth control and had not gone to church in 7 years which clearly put me in a state of mortal sin according to Catholic church teachings yet, One day, while reading my Catholic Bible, despite all the doctrine I had been taught I met Jesus Christ in my own living room. What I had been told from Catholic grammer school through college...had never told me this was possible. I do not believe that the scripture you refer to gives the same impression that the Catholic church teaching had in this area on myself and many others...the impression that well, if you are not clergy, you will sin...you can not be totally cleansed and you have to figure whatever you haven't been able to overcome in the flesh in this life will be burned off in purgatory for a time.I was taught by implication, to settle for that and that otherwise would be presumptuous to say the least. When Jesus came to me that day I was made instantly aware that I was a sinner (and not because of the reasons of doctrine that the church states), instantly aware that He loved me anyway, instantly aware that I was forgiven and cleansed and made a new person. It was a shock to me. A wonderful awareness but a shock as it showed me that sin was sin, that people had offended me but I was still a sinner because I was offended in the first place and my reaction was just as bad as those who had hurt me even if they were wrong. No mortal and venial...sin was sin, but that Jesus and what He did on the cross was the remedy and that there was no purgatory but you are either forgiven or not...period. Now mind you, I was reading the truths from my own CATHOLIC BIBLE and I do not say anyone should leave the Catholic Church. What I am saying simply is that this doctrine, as far as I know, about mortal and venial sins is taught in the Catholic church as doctrine almost exclusively. I don't think this scripture means that and this is simply my opinion. You are entitled to yours. I just want you to understand why I stated what I did...and the question that was put was simple and I thought looking for just that simple answer...that it was a doctrine of the Catholic church. I believe all doctrine should be from Scripture. I just do not agree that the Scripture you are quoting means the doctrine of mortal and venial sins as I was taught. But that is my own personal opinion. Itiswritten |