Given Scripture's sparse mention of it, one wonders why the medieval church catalogued this with the seven deadly sins. Another vice ofexcessive intake is drunkenness, and Scripture has plenty to say about this. While notcondemning alcohol--indeed Scripture in places even celebrates drinking (...
This is a brief point by point account of the order of events according to Scripture; there is Christ’s second coming, the resurrection, the catching up of the saints to meet Jesus in the air which all take place at the same time and at the end of the world. This is why Jesus sai...
Pride, in Roman Catholic theology, one of the seven deadly sins, considered by some to be the gravest of all sins. In the theological sense, pride is defined as an excessive love of one’s own excellence. As a deadly sin, pride is believed to generate ot
The Seven Victories; Seven Deadly Sins; The Seven Holy Virtues; The Seven Victories Spiritual Cultivation; localizationAmong the works written by Catholic missionaries in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, the most widely influential are Matteo Ricci’s (利瑪竇) The True Meaning of the Lord ...