The Seven Deadly Sins

The Seven Deadly Sins are actually serious sins. There has been qn endeavor to decry that the Seven Deadly Sins are mysticisms of the Middle Ages. But there is truth in the Seven Deadly Sins fhat we shall now Explore.

Lust

Lust is perhaps the most prominate deadly sin in life. It can stem from unnatural and excessive sexual lust to material lust to a lust for cuisine and castles, and more. Lust begins with the eyes which illicit a chemical like reaction within a citizen. The Bible says, "For everything in the world--the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life--comes not from the Father but from the world." (1 John 2:16). The Apostle John affirms that this sin exists, and it is interconnected with the Pride of Life. Those who want ot boast of their possessions and pleasures will feed the Lust of the Eyes and the Lust of the Flesh. Lust is the opposite of love because it is sefish in nature, it has only self love (pleasure), which violates the command, "love one another as I loved you," (John 13:34) and "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind'; and, 'Love your neighbor as yourself." (Luke 10:27). Lust never gets to love your neighbor or God, it is an idolatry of self. Lust is deadly because it destroys love, just like how pornography pollutes the gift of "Be fruitful and multiply," (Genesis 1:28) so lust devours ones finances, time, and soul. Lust is rampant in the world today, people desire what they cannot afford, and create sexual taboos because they cannot satiate themselves, "Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator--who is forever praised. Amen." (Romans 1:24-25). Form Paul's words to the Romans we see two strains of lust, sexual and desire for physical idols over the Immortal God! Thus Lust brings death to loving the Lord God (Luke 10:27).



Envy

Envy is originally translated coveteouness. One of Ten Commandments is, "You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor." (Exodus 20:17). Envy stems from deep seeded discontent with your life and a lust for someone elses belongings due to this discount. Envy is a brother of its sister Lust, because lust is being tempted by the Lust of Eyes and Lust of Flesh, Envy comes when you cannot have those lusts and it turns into the next Deadly Sin, Wrath. The Apostle James says, "For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice." (James 3:16). Every evil practice stems from envy, for in man's discontent is wages war to sieze lands and possessions that are not his, and through envy he steals, murders, commits idolatry, and breaks all Ten Commandments. Envy destroys relationships, making a person unbearable to befriend because they covet all you have and may even steal or kill for it! Thus they are untrustworthy. Envy is demonic and earthly, it is jealousy, "But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth. This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. For where jealousy (envy) and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice." (James 3:14-16).


Pride

Pride in this sense is not being proud of your achievements or glad, it is to be pompous, egotistical, haughty, arrogant, and to treat people like they are fools and idiots, and to praise yourself and worship self. Again this violates the "love others" and "love the Lord God" commands mentioned earlier. Pride is actually one of Deadly Sins God hates, "The LORD detests all the proud of heart. Be sure of this: They will not go unpunished." (Proverbs 16:5). In another translation it says the proud are an abomination to God. Why does the Lord so loath the proud? Because it is the attitude of the heart Lucifer when he became Satan. The devil became proud and said in his rebellion, "How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations! You said in your heart, “I will ascend to the heavens! I will raise my throne above the stars of God (angels see Revelation 12:4); I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of Mount Zaphon.  I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High (same thing devil promise Adam and Eve, see Genesis 3:5)." But you are brought down to the realm of the dead, to the depths of the pit." (Isaiah 14:12-15). Pride stems from the evil one, he was first to embrace it, and it can be said Pride is an antichrist spirit, that the proud person wants to be worshipped and to be enthroned in place of the Most High, and that Lust, Envy (covet), wrath, and other seven deadly sins stem on axis of Pride and come from it. Those who are proud cannot keep the commands, "Love Lord your God, and love your neighbor," (Luke 10:27) for they only love themselves. The Scriptures warn us to not be proud, "In the same way, you who are younger, submit yourselves to your elders. All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, "God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble," (1 Peter 5:5), "But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: "God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble," (James 4:6), "Do nothing out of selfish ambition (connected to envy, remember James 3:16) or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others." (Phillipians 2:3-4).

Greed

Greed is the excessive desire for financial gain to the point of murder, stealing, and other vices. Greed is avarice, it has lust for gold and silver, a passion that cannot be satiated. It is connected to a fallen angel, called Mammon, and Jesus Christ himself proclaims, ""No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money (Mammon)." (Matthew 6:24). Mammon was god that people gave tributes of money to and swore by to get prosperity. It is actually what the world worships, and it drives commerce and capitalism, and ends in destruction of a man's soul, "What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?" (Matthew 16:26). Greed is an offspring of Envy, it desires more and more money without a real end. A great example of Greed is in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, when the antagonist is asked how much more money he would need to have to completely walk away from the game of Wall Street, he says with arrogance, "More." Under Greed men will destroy one another, for the lust of riches men will forfeit their God given calling like Christopher Columbus, who in His journal was told to find the way around the world, but his lust for gold destroyed this quest, and God told him, "If you do not give up this lust for gold, I will replace you with another man who will find the way around the world." (Christopher Columbus, Journal, Harvard Library). This God did, raising up Magellan. Christ commends us to not store up wealth of this world, "Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal." (Matthew 6:19-20). Greed brings death to a man's soul, destroying his calling as it did Columbus, and even his relationship with God, for "you can only serve one of two masters."

Gluttony

Gluttony is not necessarily overeating, though that is connected. To glut, is to eat food or drink something so fast, you do not chew much or even taste it long. It can also be to eat an exuberant amount of food for pleasure alone, rather than for practical reasons of nourishment. Gluttony in mythology is a offspring of a fallen angel called Lamia. Lamia transforms into a shark and sometimes a snake that seduces men. Her children are all harpies, mermaids, water spirits, nymphs, and all sexual spirits of these kind. In this way gluttony is connected to Lust, because it is the brother of the many lusty spirits. The Scriptures say, "So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God," (1 Corinthians 10:31) and "and put a knife to your throat if you are given to gluttony." (Proverbs 23:2). Gluttony produces other baser sins and even some of Deadly Sins, for King Solomon says, "Do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves on meat, Do not carouse with drunkards or feast with gluttons, Be not among drunkards or among gluttonous eaters of meat," (Proverbs 23:20, NIV, NLT, ESV), because, "for drunkards and gluttons become poor, and drowsiness clothes them in rags." (Proverbs 23:21). Gluttony leads to poverty, but also clogged arteries, premature death, lack of energy, and actually brings a death to your life because once gluttony gets you obese you cannot do certain things anymore.

Sloth

Sloth is not a cute character in the Ice Age franchise or an animal, it is laziness, indolence, an unwillingness to work, and slow moving. Sloth permeates the practical and spiritual, for the Scriptures proclaim of practical, "The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied," (Proverbs 13:4), "The hand of the diligent will rule, while the slothful will be put to forced labor," (Proverbs 12:24), "Through sloth the roof sinks in, and through indolence the house leaks," (Ecclesiastes 10:18), "The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor. All day long he craves and craves, but the righteous gives and does not hold back," (Proverbs 21:25-26), and  "I passed by the field of a sluggard, by the vineyard of a man lacking sense, and behold, it was all overgrown with thorns; the ground was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down. Then I saw and considered it; I looked and received instruction. A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man," (Proverbs 24:30-34). Sloth goes with poverty, it steals wealth because the person is unwilling to work, but it also steals purpose from the person, because rather than being digilent and doing God's work, they are sitting around. There is a spiritual slothfulness as well, for St. Paul says, "Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord," (Romans 12:11), and "But his master answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed?" (Matthew 25:26). Slothfullness can destroy your life, it can actually literally kill you, if you do not work you have no money for food and water (baring Welfare, which feeds Slothfulness), and it brings spiritual death because you will not sieze the opportunities God puts in front of you.

Wrath

Wrath has two natures, righteous indignation (John 2:13-17) which shall be seen on Great Day of Judgment (Revelation 14:19-20), and then there is unbridled anger, fury, and rage that causes harm to innocent bystanders and property. The Scriptures proclaim, "Do not make friends with a hot-tempered person, do not associate with one easily angered," (Proverbs 22:24), and ""In your anger do not sin": Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry." (Ephesians 4:26). Unbridled fits of rage produce fear, causing those who have been abused to have many disorders and symptoms of PTSD. A person who is ever angry is not in line with God, for it is written, "My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires." (James 1:19-20). Anger in of itself is not a sin, it is how it used. Anger can develop a solution to the problem or destroy. Wrath is the latter, and those who participate in raging will find themselves "Like a city whose walls are broken through is a person who lacks self-control." (Proverbs 25:28). For the angry man this is true because he sometimes destroys those walls himself literally or it means no one will shelter Him because of his reputation of wrath. It also can allude to fact that many angry people do not have firm boundaries, they have no walls and so they become full of rage due to that they feel they can never say no. Wrath can be connected to Envy and Lust, for a person who cannot get what they covet or lust for by other means will become angry and employ