{"id":18512,"date":"2015-03-23T09:04:29","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T14:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/?p=18512"},"modified":"2015-03-23T09:04:29","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T14:04:29","slug":"why-is-something-sinful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2015\/03\/why-is-something-sinful.html","title":{"rendered":"Why Is Something Sinful?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"confused\"<\/a>It\u2019s Lent. It\u2019s a penitential season.<\/p>\n

So off we go to confession to confess our sins.<\/p>\n

But why is something sinful anyway?<\/p>\n

Most of us believe things are sinful because someone has told us they are sinful.<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t sleep with a girl before marriage.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy \u00a0not?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause it\u2019s sinful.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy is it sinful?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause the Bible, God\u2019s word says it\u2019s sinful and because the church says its sinful and because the priest says its sinful. It\u2019s sinful. Don\u2019t do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

So we think things are sinful simply because the voices of authority said it is sinful.<\/p>\n

So soon we associate sinful things with things that give us pleasure\u2013usually sexual sins or sins of gluttony or drunken-ness. Before long, if we\u2019re not careful, we start thinking that anything we like must be sinful.<\/p>\n

Then we start feeling guilty and then we start thinking that anything that makes us feel afraid, guilty or ashamed are the things which are most sinful.<\/p>\n

The problem is, we never stop to think WHY a thing is sinful from the ground up.<\/p>\n

The church teaches that something is sinful for one of two reasons or both\u2013that an action goes against the natural order or it goes against Divine Revelation.<\/p>\n

In other words, a thing is wrong if is un-natural or because God told us not to do it\u2013or God told us to do it and we didn\u2019t follow through.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s take a disgusting, but obvious example: bestiality.\u00a0Continue Reading<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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