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- Offense often refers to a violation of a social or legal rule, while sin is primarily a religious concept indicating a moral wrongdoing against divine law.
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When the Bible speaks of offense, it refers primarily to some act or series of acts which lead another into sin. By themselves, offenses are generally not hurt feelings, resentment, and anger that begin as minor irritations or annoyances.
- Offenses
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- Millstone Around Neck
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- Offenses
- MERCY AND SIN. 1846 The Gospel is the revelation in Jesus Christ of God's mercy to sinners.113 The angel announced to Joseph: "You shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins."
- THE DEFINITION OF SIN. 1849 Sin is an offense against reason, truth, and right conscience; it is failure in genuine love for God and neighbor caused by a perverse attachment to certain goods.
- THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF SINS. 1852 There are a great many kinds of sins. Scripture provides several lists of them. The Letter to the Galatians contrasts the works of the flesh with the fruit of the Spirit: "Now the works of the flesh are plain: fornication, impurity, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger, selfishness, dissension, factions, envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like.
- THE GRAVITY OF SIN: MORTAL AND VENIAL SIN. 1854 Sins are rightly evaluated according to their gravity. The distinction between mortal and venial sin, already evident in Scripture,129 became part of the tradition of the Church.
The Definition of Sin. 1849 Sin is an offense against reason, truth, and right conscience; it is failure in genuine love for God and neighbor caused by a perverse attachment to certain goods. It wounds the nature of man and injures human solidarity.
Hamartiology, a branch of Christian theology which is the study of sin, describes sin as an act of offence against God by despising his persons and Christian biblical law, and by injuring others. Christian hamartiology is closely related to concepts of natural law , moral theology and Christian ethics .
THE DEFINITION OF SIN. 1849 Sin is an offense against reason, truth, and right conscience; it is failure in genuine love for God and neighbor caused by a perverse attachment to certain goods. It...
Burnside investigates ‘seriousness of offence’ within the OT by attending to narrative context and stereotypical ‘paradigm cases’ in five texts: the ‘stubborn and rebellious son’ (Deut. 21:18–21); the unwilling Leverite (Deut. 25:5–10); ‘playing the harlot’ (Lev. 21:9 and Deut....
A stumbling-block or cause of temptation ( Isaiah 8:14; Matthew 16:23; 18:7 ). Greek skandalon, properly that at which one stumbles or takes offence. The "offence of the cross" ( Galatians 5:11) is the offence the Jews took at the teaching that salvation was by the crucified One, and by him alone.