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Original sin. Depiction of the sin of Adam and Eve ( The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Pieter Paul Rubens) Original sin is the Christian doctrine that holds that humans, through the act of birth, inherit a tainted nature with a proclivity to sinful conduct in need of regeneration. [ 1]
Catholic philosophy. The seven deadly sins, also known as the capital vices or cardinal sins, function as a grouping and classification of major vices within the teachings in Christianity and Islam. [ 1] According to the standard list, the seven deadly sins in Christianity are pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony and sloth .
A penitent confessing his sins in the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church of the Bernardines in Lviv, Ukraine. A mortal sin ( Latin: peccātum mortāle ), in Christian theology, is a gravely sinful act which can lead to damnation if a person does not repent of the sin before death. It is alternatively called deadly, grave, and serious; the concept ...
Absalom ( Hebrew: אַבְשָׁלוֹם ʾAḇšālōm, "father of peace ") was the third son of David, King of Israel with Maacah, daughter of Talmai, King of Geshur. [ 2] 2 Samuel 14:25 describes him as the handsomest man in the kingdom. [ 3] Absalom eventually rebelled against his father and was killed during the Battle of Ephraim's Wood.
Father. Kish. Saul ( / sɔːl /; Hebrew: שָׁאוּל, Šāʾūl; Greek: Σαούλ, Saoúl; transl. "asked/prayed for") was a monarch of ancient Israel and Judah and the first king of the United Monarchy, according to the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament. His reign, traditionally placed in the late eleventh century BCE, [ 3] supposedly ...
e. The man of sin ( Greek: ὁ ἄνθρωπος τῆς ἁμαρτίας, ho anthrōpos tēs hamartias) or man of lawlessness, ( ἀνομίας, anomias ), man of rebellion, man of insurrection, or man of apostasy is a figure referred to in the Christian Bible in the Second Epistle to the Thessalonians. He is usually equated with the ...
Sin of a mortal character is always committed with the consent of reason: "Because the consummation of sin is in the consent of reason"'. (cf. STh II–IIae q.35 a.3) Venial and mortal sins can be compared to sickness and death. While venial sin impairs full healthy activity of a person, mortal sin destroys the principle of spiritual life in ...
Reuben (son of Jacob) / 31.92944°N 34.73389°E / 31.92944; 34.73389. Reuben or Reuven ( Hebrew: רְאוּבֵן, Standard Rəʾūven, Tiberian Rŭʾūḇēn) [ 4] was the first of the six sons of Jacob and Leah (Jacob's oldest son), according to the Book of Genesis. He was the founder of the Israelite Tribe of Reuben .