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an unpardonable sin entailing a total loss of grace
theologians list seven mortal sins
How To Use mortal sin In A Sentence
- Mum didn't want that to happen. Committing suicide was a mortal sin.
- Objectively, a calumny is a mortal sin when it is calculated to do serious harm to the person so traduced. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
- He had compounded a number of venial failings with the mortal sin of adultery.
- Rome teaches, that is, purificatory and punitive), but probatory, not restricted to those dying in "venial sin"; the supposed intermediate class between those entering heaven at once, and those dying in mortal sin who go to hell, but universal, testing the godly and ungodly alike Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
- If a priest says, ‘do not commit this mortal sin, or else…,’ he's not making a threat, he's giving a warning.
- theologians list seven mortal sins
- If that's not a mortal sin, it's got to be up there on the venial meter.
- And is hers strong enough to marry a man who regards unpunctuality almost as a mortal sin?
- So does Michelle consider Tony's slip of the tongue and miraculous recovery of memory a venial or a mortal sin?
- Matthew 7:13-14 God predestines no one to go to hell; for this, a willful turning away from God a mortal sin is necessary, and persistence in it until the end. Archive 2006-12-01