However, through Christ’s sacrifice, we are offered redemption from both—the forgiveness of our actual sins and the renewal of our sinful nature through the transforming power of His grace. Mortal Sin and Venial Sin In Catholic teaching, actual sin is categorized into mortal sin and venial ...
Historic Catholic theology would say that those sins which do not change our fundamental option are venial sins and that those sins which do change it are mortal sins. Whenever a person commits a mortal sin, he has changed his fundamental option and chooses to be against God; he loses the ...
Well, actually, from the Catholic view, when you’re baptized, the full merits of Christ’s death on the cross are applied to you where it is entirely applied to you in that you are interiorly transformed, made righteous and no debt of punishment remains for past sins whatsoever. So not...
Mortal sins are sins which sever our relationship with God. Compare the friendship. If I annoy my friend by talking too much, that’s a “venial sin.” It’s not going to sever the relationship. But if I sleep with my friend’s spouse, that’s a “mortal sin.” It fundamentally s...
Penance/Reconciliation (for sins after baptism) Eucharist or the Lord’s Supper (for all believers) The last two (Penance and the Eucharist) are the most divisive in separating Protestants & Catholics. The Roman Catholic view and the Protestant view of Sacraments differ in ...
THE BIBLE TEACHES THAT THERE ARE MORTAL SINS AND LESSER (VENIAL) SINS Mortal sins destroy the state of justification. That’s why Galatians 5:19-21, 1 Cor. 6:9, and Ephesians 5:5-8 teach that people who commit such mortal sins lose “their inheritance” in Heaven (justification). Examp...
Catholic wants to read the Bible. I will say, though, that I live in a largely Catholic town, have lots of Catholic friends, and I would be generous to say that 1 in 50 had ever read the Bible at all. The Bible mentions nothing about Limbo, Purgatory, penances, venial sins, Peter...