Faith & Religion

    Actually, there is no Biblical list of seven deadly sins, for God has made it abundantly clear throughout scripture that all and any sins (transgressions of God's Law) are deadly and will result in our damnation.

Romans 6:23

• "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."

James 2:10

• "For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

Every sin or transgression of God's law is deadly because the penalty for any one of these sins is death. And so to call only seven sins deadly is really a misnomer. That is precisely why no one could become Saved by his own righteousness, or without Christ's payment for each and every one of their transgressions. Because any little (in man's eyes) sin which was left unpaid, would result in the judgment of death (Ezekiel 18:4).

The phrase 'Seven Deadly Sins' is a part of Roman Catholic folklore and church tradition where some sins which they personally deemed as ruin to spiritual progress, was labled deadly or capital, but this teaching has no foundation in the scriptures. The list consisted of the following:

These particular sins are nowhere listed as a group, for they are as every other sin, and are warned against throughout the scripture in many different ways. God does not single these out as deadly above all others. In other words, the sin of pride is no more deadly than the sin of not loving God with all thy heart and soul. The sin of wrath or anger is no more deadly than the sin of disobedience to any of God's commands. They are all deadly transgressions, and so to list seven as deadly 'as if' the other sins are not, does a terrible disservice to the Holiness and justice of God. It is written that the wages of sin is death, not that the wages of these seven sins is.

Nevertheless, these sins are some of the more popular sins which man has much difficulty in overcoming, and so we will take a brief look at them in order to understand how they war against the Spirit, and how we may overcome them in Christ.

1. PRIDE: This is the unwillingness to look at one's faults honestly, or of esteeming ourselves greatly based on an excessive consciousness of abilities or worth. This is vanity, and is often euphemistically called, 'self respect.'

Proverbs 16:18

• "Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall."

This is the root cause of many other sins. The Godly virtue which this transgression wars against is Christian humility and a contrite spirit (Matthew.