"If anyone sees his brother sinning, if the sin is not deadly, he should pray to God and he will give him life. This is only for those whose sin is not deadly. There is such a thing as deadly sin, about which I do not say that you should pray. All wrongdoing is sin, but there is sin that is not deadly." (1 John 5:16-17).
"Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God." (1 Corinthians 6:9-10)
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There are many ways in which a sin can be committed. At a Catholic mass, one of the prayers at the beginning of the service is the confiteor, a confession. Through it, I learned the ways you can sin. Sins aren't just things you have said or done, its the things you thought or didn't do. For example, breaking a promise is a sin. Below is the prayer:
fault, in my thoughts and in my words, in what I have done and what I have failed to do; and I ask blessed Mary, ever virgin, all the angels and saints, and you, my brothers and sisters, to pray for me to the Lord our God. " (http://www.saintaquinas.com/prayers.html)
I confess to almighty God, and to you, my brothers and sisters, that I have sinned through my own
In the Bible, it implies that some sins are worse than others. These are called mortal sins. Mortal sins mean complete cut off from God. As the catechism puts it, "Mortal sin destroys charity in the heart of man by a grave violation of God's law; it turns man away from God, who is his ultimate end and his beatitude, by preferring an inferior good to him... Mortal sin is sin whose object is grave matter and which is also committed with full knowledge and deliberate consent." Such a sin must be confessed to a priest through confession... OR ELSE! Actually, that's true. If you commit a mortal sin and don't confess, not only will you probably go to jail for a long time (such as the case of murder) you will go to hell after you die. (Now that I think about it, that's probably why they have chapels in jails across the country....) The catechism also states that "grave matter" (not necessarily mortal sin) is specified by the 10 Commandments: Do not kill, do not commit adultery, do not steal, honor your Mother and Father.... " The gravity of sin is more or less great: murder is graver than theft... violence against parents is in itself graver than violence against a stranger."
As http://www.saintaquinas.com/mortal_sin.html says, "The Church also tells us that the sins of anger, blasphemy, envy, hatred, malice, murder, neglect of Sunday obligation, sins against faith (incredulity against God or heresy), sins against hope (obstinate despair in the hope for salvation and/or presumption that oneself can live without God or be saved by one’s own power) and sins against love (indifference towards charity, ingratitude, and/or hatred of God) also constitute grave matter." They also say that voluntary murder (Genesis 4:10), sin of impurity against nature –Sodomy and homosexual relations (Genesis 18:20), taking advantage of the poor (Exodus 2:23), defrauding the workingman of his wages (James 5:4) as well as pride, avarice, envy, wrath, lust, gluttony, and sloth are mortal sins.
That is twice now I've mentioned homosexuality So let me make it understood; the sin is not being gay. The sin is acting on the gayness- so sodomy.
Venial sin are sins that do not meet the requirements of a mortal sin. "Venial sin allow charity to subsist, even though it offends and wounds it." the catechism states, "one commits venial sin when, in a less serious matter, he does not observe the standard prescribed by the moral law, or when he disobeys the moral law in a grave matter, but without full knowledge or without complete consent."
There are also capital sins which I have put in with the mortal sins. They are pride, avarice, envy, wrath, lust, gluttony and sloth. " They are called 'capital' because they engender other sins, other vices" So these sins lead to other sins. If you are envious or wrathful, for example, you may commit murder.
If you have committed any sins, especially any mortal or capital sins, you should go to confession. (I need to go too- I'm not perfect.) Find a local Catholic church and see when they offer confession and then go. Remember, it will bring you closer to God. If you cry in the confessional (which I have been known to do) don't feel bad it adds honesty and sincerity to confession. If you don't cry, don't worry about it, it probably means that you haven't done something seriously wrong or you just don't feel horribly guilty. It's not a big deal either way. Well, I hope everyone has fun at confession. :)
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