12 sins according to the bible. Spiritual · Heart

The distinction between mortal and non-mortal sins is very conditional, for every sin, be it small or great, separates a person from God, the source of life, and the person who sinned inevitably dies, although not immediately after the fall. This is clear from the Bible, from the story of the fall of the ancestors of the human race, Adam and Eve. It was not a great sin (by today’s standards) to eat the fruit of the forbidden tree, but through this sin both Eve and Adam died, and to this day everyone dies...

In addition, in the modern understanding, when they talk about “mortal” sin, they mean that a grave mortal sin kills a person’s soul in the sense that it becomes incapable of communion with God until it repents and leaves this sin. Such sins include murder, fornication, all inhuman cruelty, blasphemy, heresy, occultism and magic, etc.

But even insignificant, small “non-mortal” sins can kill the soul of a sinner, deprive it of communication with God, when a person does not repent of them, and they lie a great burden on the soul. For example, one grain of sand is not a burden to us, but if a whole bag of them accumulates, then this load will crush us.

What is a mortal sin?

What is a mortal sin and how does it differ from other “non-mortal” sins? If you are guilty of a mortal sin and sincerely repent of it in confession, will God forgive this sin through the priest or not? And I also want to know: those sins that you repented of with all your soul and heart in confession, and the priest forgave these sins, if you don’t commit them again, God will not judge you for them?

Priest Dionysius Tolstov answers:

When a person utters such a phrase as “mortal sin,” then immediately, according to the logic of thinking, one wants to ask the question: what is an unmortal sin? The division of sins into mortal and non-mortal is only a convention. In fact, any sin is mortal, any sin is the beginning of destruction. The saint lists eight deadly sins (see also below). But these eight sins are just a classification of all possible sins that a person can do; these are like eight groups into which they are all divided. indicates that the cause of all sins and their source lies in three passions: selfishness, voluptuousness and love of money. But, however, these three vices do not cover the entire abyss of sins - this is only initial conditions sinfulness. It’s the same with those eight deadly sins – it’s a classification. Every sin must be healed by repentance. If a person has brought sincere repentance for his sins, then, of course, God will forgive him his confessed sins. This is precisely what confession is for. “Repent and believe the gospel,” says the beginning of the Gospel of Mark. A person will not be condemned for a repentant sin. “There is no unforgivable sin except unrepentant sin,” say the Holy Fathers. God, out of his inexpressible love for the human race, established the sacrament of confession. And when we begin the sacrament of repentance, we must firmly believe that God will forgive all our sins. The saint said: “Repentant fornicators are imputed with virgins.” This is the power of repentance!

Hieromonk Job (Gumerov):
“Just as illnesses can be common and fatal, so sins can be less or more serious, that is, mortal... Mortal sins destroy a person’s love for God and make man dead to perceive Divine grace. A serious sin traumatizes the soul so much that it is then very difficult for it to return to its normal state.
“The expression “mortal sin” has its basis in the words of St. Apostle John the Theologian (). The Greek text says pro fanon- a sin that leads to death. By death we mean spiritual death, which deprives a person of eternal bliss in the Kingdom of Heaven.”

priest Georgy Kochetkov
IN Old Testament a number of crimes were punished death penalty. This is where the concept of mortal sin arose, that is, an act the consequence of which is death. Moreover, no crime worthy of death can be forgiven or replaced by a ransom (), that is, a person cannot change his fate even by repentance. This approach arose from the conviction that a person can perform a number of actions only if he has long been out of touch with the Source of Life or, more precisely, draws inspiration from an alien source. In other words, if a person commits a mortal sin, it means that he has violated the Covenant and supports his life through the destruction of the surrounding world and people. Thus, a mortal sin is not just a crime, which, according to law, is punishable by death, but also a certain statement of the fact that the person who commits such an act is already internally dead and must be put to rest so that living members of the community do not suffer from it . Of course, from the point of view of secular humanism, such an approach is very cruel, but such a view of life and man is alien to biblical consciousness. We must not forget that in Old Testament times there was no other way to stop the spread of grave sin among the people of God than when the bearer of death was subjected to the death penalty.

saint:
“The mortal sins for a Christian are the following: heresy, schism, blasphemy, apostasy, sorcery, despair, suicide, fornication, adultery, unnatural fornication, incest, drunkenness, sacrilege, homicide, robbery, theft and any cruel, inhuman offense.
Only one of these sins cannot be healed, but each of them mortifies the soul and makes it incapable of eternal bliss until it cleanses itself with satisfactory repentance...
Let him who has fallen into mortal sin not fall into despair! Let him resort to the medicine of repentance, to which he is called before last minute his life by the Savior, who proclaimed in the Holy Gospel: he who believes in Me, even if he dies, will live (). But it is disastrous to remain in mortal sin, it is disastrous when mortal sin turns into a habit!”

CM. Maslennikov:
In volume 1 of the saint there is a list of passions with examples of their manifestation, and in volume 3 there is a list of mortal sins given by him.
We did this: we compared examples of sins in the passions with examples of mortal sins and it turned out that mortal sins are included in the saint’s list of sins for each passion in accordance with their passion. From this it is easy to conclude: passion is a disease of the soul, like a tree bearing poisonous fruits - sins and some of these sins are the most serious, because even with a one-time manifestation they destroy peace with God, grace recedes - the saint called such sins mortal.

The Seven Deadly Sins and the Ten Commandments

In this short article I will not pretend to be an absolutist statement, including that Christianity is somehow more important than other world religions. Therefore, I reject in advance all possible attacks in this vein. The purpose of the article is to provide information about the seven deadly sins and ten commandments noted in Christian teaching. The extent of the sinfulness and importance of the commandments can be debated, but at the very least it is worth paying attention to.

But first, why did I suddenly decide to write about this? The reason for this was the film “Seven,” in which one comrade imagined himself to be an instrument of God and decided to punish selected individuals, as they say, point by point, that is, each for some mortal sin. It’s just that I suddenly discovered, to my shame, that I couldn’t list all seven deadly sins. So I decided to fill this gap by publishing on my website. And in the process of searching for information, I discovered a connection with the ten Christian commandments (which also does not hurt to know), as well as some others interesting materials. Below it all comes together.

Seven deadly sins

There are seven mortal sins in Christian teaching, and they are called so because, despite their seemingly harmless nature, if regularly practiced, they lead to much more serious sins and, consequently, to the death of an immortal soul that ends up in hell. Deadly sins Not based on biblical texts and Not are a direct revelation of God, they appeared in the texts of theologians later.

First, the Greek monk-theologian Evagrius of Pontus compiled a list of the eight worst human passions. They were (in descending order of severity): pride, vanity, acedia, anger, sadness, avarice, lust and gluttony. The order in this list was determined by the degree of a person’s orientation towards himself, towards his ego (that is, pride is the most selfish property of a person and therefore the most harmful).

At the end of the 6th century, Pope Gregory I the Great reduced the list to seven elements, introducing the concept of vanity into pride, spiritual laziness into despondency, and also adding a new one - envy. The list was slightly reordered, this time according to the criterion of opposition to love: pride, envy, anger, despondency, greed, gluttony and voluptuousness (that is, pride is more opposed to love than others and is therefore the most harmful).

Later Christian theologians (in particular, Thomas Aquinas) objected to this particular order of mortal sins, but it was this order that became the main one and remains in effect to this day. The only change in Pope Gregory the Great's list was the replacement of the concept of despondency with sloth in the 17th century. Also see a brief history of sin (in English).

Due to the fact that in compiling and finalizing the list of the seven deadly sins they took Active participation representatives mainly catholic church, I dare to suggest that this does not apply to the Orthodox Church, and especially to other religions. However, I believe that regardless of religion and even for atheists, this list will be useful. Its current version is summarized in the following table.

The most harmful of them is definitely considered pride. At the same time, the belonging of some items on this list to sins (for example, gluttony and lust) is questioned. And according to one sociological survey, the “popularity” of the deadly sins looks in the following way(in descending order): anger, pride, envy, gluttony, voluptuousness, laziness and greed.

It may be interesting to consider the influence of these sins on human body from point of view modern science. And, of course, the matter could not do without a “scientific” justification for those natural properties of human nature that were included in the list of the worst.

Ten Commandments

Many people confuse mortal sins with commandments and try to illustrate the concepts of “thou shalt not kill” and “thou shalt not steal” with references to them. There are some similarities between the two lists, but there are more differences. The Ten Commandments were given by God to Moses on Mount Sinai and are described in the Old Testament (in the fifth book of Moses called Deuteronomy). The first four commandments concern the relationship between God and man, the next six - man with man. Below is a list of commandments in modern interpretation, with original quotations (given from the 1997 Russian edition, approved by Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Rus') and some comments by Andrei Koltsov.

1. Believe in the only God. “I am the Lord your God... let you have no other gods before Me.”- initially this was directed against paganism (polytheism), but over time it lost relevance and became a reminder to honor the one God even more.
2. Don't create idols for yourself. “You shall not make for yourself an idol or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth below, or that is in the waters under the earth; you shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I am the Lord your God..."- initially this was directed against idolatry, but now “idol” is interpreted in an expanded way - this is everything that distracts from faith in God.
3. Don't take God's name in vain. “Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain...”- that is, you cannot “swear”, say “my God”, “by God”, etc.
4. Remember the day off. “Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy...six days you shall work and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God.”– in some countries, including Russia, this is Sunday; in any case, one day of the week must be entirely devoted to prayers and thoughts about God; you cannot work, since it is assumed that a person works for himself.
5. Honor your parents. "Honor your father and your mother..."- After God, one should honor father and mother, since they gave life.
6. Dont kill. "Dont kill"– God gives life, and only He can take it away.
7. Don't commit adultery. "Thou shalt not commit adultery"– that is, a man and a woman should live in marriage, and only in a monogamous one; For eastern countries, where all this happened, a rather difficult condition to fulfill.
8. Don't steal. "Don't steal"– by analogy with “thou shalt not kill,” only God gives us everything, and only He can take it back.
9. Do not lie. "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor"– initially this concerned judicial oaths, later it began to be interpreted broadly as “don’t lie” and “don’t slander.”
10. Do not envy. “You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor shall you covet your neighbor’s house, nor his field, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor any of his livestock, nor anything that your neighbor has.”– sounds more figurative in the original.

Some believe that six last commandments form the basis of the Criminal Code, since they do not say how to live, but only how Not necessary.

In a secular environment, there is the concept of “seven deadly sins,” and we often hear the phrase “suicide is a mortal sin.” In fact, the concept of “mortal sin” cannot be called entirely correct, although it is partly true. Life for a person is in Christ, outside of sin. God created Adam and Eve for heaven. But as a result of the Fall, we found ourselves in a world where there is sin. Death is a consequence of the Fall. Sin entered us as a result free choice humanity and made man mortal, because sin kills. It is suicide that is considered such a grave sin, because a person himself chooses death, depriving himself of the chance of salvation. But, as we know, even suicide is difficult to impute as a sin to a person who has suffered from a serious mental disorder. The fate of our soul, her posthumous fate Only the Lord always determines, and only He knows whether in these terrible moments a person could control himself.

However, the expression “7 deadly sins” did not appear by chance. This term and list of sins were proposed by St. Gregory the Great in 590. At that time, there was another list in the Church - a list sinful passions, which consisted of eight points:

1. Gluttony
2. Adultery
3. Love of money
4. Sadness
5. Dejection
6. Vanity
7. Pride

Temptations in themselves may not have been sins. Sin is to give in to temptation. So the desire to have a delicious lunch or eat meat during Lent in itself is not a sin, especially a mortal one. And yet such passion can incline a person to sin; this is precisely why the enemy of the human race sends it. Sadness was understood as grumbling against God, distrust of His will and His infinite love. And pride consisted of an arrogant attitude towards others, a feeling of superiority.

This inevitably led to death human soul, which was created to “give your life for your friends.” Can this sin be called mortal? Yes, because it ultimately led to death. This was death not in the physical, but in the spiritual sense.

St. Theophan the Recluse writes about mortal sins: “A mortal sin is one that robs a person of his moral Christian life. If we know what moral life is, then defining mortal sin is not difficult. Christian life is zeal and strength to remain in communion with God by fulfilling His holy law. Therefore, every sin that extinguishes jealousy, takes away strength and relaxes, distances one from God and deprives Him of grace, so that after it a person cannot look at God, but feels himself separated from Him; every such sin is a mortal sin. ...Such a sin deprives a person of the grace received in baptism, takes away the Kingdom of Heaven and delivers it to judgment. And all this is confirmed in the hour of sin, although it is not accomplished visibly. Sins of this kind change the entire direction of a person’s activity and his very state and heart, forming, as it were, a new source in moral life; why do others determine that mortal sin is the one that changes the center of human activity?

Deadly sins in Orthodoxy: list

So, in 590, a certain list of mortal sins appeared in Orthodoxy, which can be called very conditional. Why? Because the sin of Adultery can be divided into many sins. For example, lustful thoughts that a person does not try to drive away, although Christ said that the one who looked at a woman with lust had already sinned with her in his heart. This did not mean that a person who admitted a sinful thought was automatically deprived of the opportunity to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. It was about the impossibility of deceiving the Lord and saving only outward piety, in the soul wishing evil to others or, allowing evil thoughts about them.

The list of deadly sins has seven items:

1. Pride
2. Envy
3. Gluttony
4. Greed
5. Dejection

If the first six points do not raise questions, then the seventh is often used to blame people suffering from clinical depression. But we're talking about not about illness and not about ordinary sadness, but about spiritual laziness, about cases when a person stops believing in God’s help, reproaches Him for his earthly misfortunes instead of relying on His promise of salvation for all people who were “bought with a price.” "

List of sins for confession

How to talk about sins in confession? To begin with, it is important to remember that confession is not a mechanical listing of sins, and we confess to God, and do not report to the priest about what we have done, like a strict teacher. The priest laments with us about our sins, and does not wait for the opportunity to reprimand us for our misdeeds. But sometimes, without a list of sins, it can be difficult to prepare for confession, and in order to remember what harmed our soul, what temptations we succumbed to, it is easier to use the list. This list is a helper, but you shouldn’t make up your entire confession from it. God already knows about all our sins, and if you forgot to say about an act for which you sincerely repent, this does not mean that repentance for this particular sin will not be “taken into account.” God is not a vengeful Spirit with a calculator of our faults, but Heavenly Father who gave His Son to die to atone for our sins. There is no point in deliberately hiding sins; confession is intended to help a person, not harm.

How do we sin before the Lord?

How to deal with sins?

Unfortunately, a person cannot overcome sin on his own. And simply being obsessively careful not to commit a sin is not enough. More precisely, this is unlikely to help. Man will inevitably sin, such is his nature after original sin. Therefore, you should try to do everything possible so as not to go against the will of the Lord and pray to Him for the granting of strength in the fight against sin and forgiveness. There is no need to be afraid of mortal sins, because God punishes them with death. This is wrong. Man himself once signed his own death warrant, violating the will of the Creator. Now our task is to try to minimize the power of evil over us, to get closer to the only source of life for a Christian - to Christ.

You have read material about mortal sins.

In Orthodoxy there are 7 deadly sins. They are considered the seven deadly sins: pride, greed, fornication, envy, gluttony, anger and despondency, leading to more serious sins and the death of the soul. The list of mortal sins is based not on biblical, but on theological texts that appeared much later.

Pride

Pride - this most terrible of the 7 deadly sins - is preceded by such spiritual diseases as pride, arrogance, boasting, hypocrisy, vanity, arrogance, arrogance, etc. All these “diseases” are the result of the same spiritual “deviation” - unhealthy attention to your person. In the process of developing pride, a person first develops vanity, and the difference between these two types of spiritual illness is approximately the same as between a teenager and an adult man.

So how can people become sick with pride?

All people love goodness: cases of manifestation of virtue and examples of love evoke only approval from everyone. The child is pleased when his parents praise him for his diligence and success, and the baby tries to do even better, which is right. Encouragement is very important point in raising children, but, as one would expect, many, in their sinful nature, deviate from the plan: for example, a thirst for praise can also “help” a person deviate from the right path. Achieving praise, another person can do great things, but he will do this not for the sake of the worthy deeds themselves, but for the sake of the impression they make on others. This kind of sentiment leads to hypocrisy and hypocrisy.

Pride originates in self-confidence with the exaltation of everything that is “mine” and the rejection of what is “not mine.” This sin, like no other, is an excellent breeding ground for hypocrisy and lies, as well as for such feelings as anger, irritation, enmity, cruelty and related crimes. Pride is rejection God's help, despite the fact that it is the proud one who especially needs the help of the Savior, since no one except the Most High Himself can heal his spiritual illness.

Over time, the vain person's mood deteriorates. He is preoccupied with everything except his own correction, since he does not see his shortcomings, or finds reasons to justify his behavior. He begins to greatly exaggerate his life experience and abilities and craves recognition of his superiority. Moreover, he reacts very painfully to criticism or even disagreement with his opinion. In disputes, he perceives any independent opinion as a challenge to himself, and his aggressiveness begins to meet rebuff and opposition from others. Stubbornness and irritability increase: a vain person believes that everyone interferes with him only out of envy.

At the last stage of this spiritual illness, the human soul becomes dark and cold, as anger and contempt take root in it. His mind becomes darkened to such an extent that he is no longer able to distinguish good from evil, since these concepts are replaced by the concepts of “mine” and “someone else’s.” In addition, he begins to be burdened by the “stupidity” of his bosses and it becomes increasingly difficult for him to recognize other people’s priorities. He needs to prove his superiority like air, that’s why it hurts him when it’s not him who is right. He perceives the success of another person as a personal insult.

Greed

The Lord revealed to people how to overcome the love of money - with the help of charity. Otherwise, with our entire lives we show that we value earthly wealth more highly than incorruptible wealth. The greedy one seems to be saying: goodbye immortality, goodbye Heaven, I choose this life. Thus we exchange a valuable pearl, which is eternal life, for a counterfeit trinket - immediate gain.

God introduced systematic donations as a prevention against evil, whose name is greed. Jesus saw that the love of money drives true piety out of the heart. He knew that the love of money hardens and cools hearts, discourages generosity, and makes a person deaf to the needs of the disadvantaged and suffering. He said: “See, beware of covetousness. You cannot serve God and mammon.”

Thus, greed is one of the most common sins of our time, having a paralyzing effect on the soul. The desire to get rich occupies people's thoughts, the passion for accumulating money kills all noble motives in a person and makes them indifferent to the interests and needs of other people. We have become insensitive, like a piece of iron, but our silver and gold have rusted, as they corrode the soul. If charity grew as our wealth grew, we would consider money only a means for doing good.

Fornication

In the life of a baptized person, it would seem there should not be even a hint of this grave sin. After all, the Apostle Paul already wrote in his “Epistle to the Ephesians”: “But fornication and all uncleanness and covetousness must not even be mentioned among you.” But in our days, the depravity of this world has so dulled the moral feelings of Christians that even those brought up in Orthodox faith allow divorce and premarital affairs.

A fornicator is considered worse than a harlot. It is much harder for a fornicator to part with his sin than for a harlot. The vileness of his fornication is that he expects impunity. In contrast to the fornicator, the harlot woman always risks, in particular her reputation.

Currently, people have lost the sense of sin more than ever in the history of mankind. The greats of this world have worked hard to erase him from the consciousness of people. The commandments of God have always outraged the evil one, and it is no coincidence that crime is now growing in various countries, and in some of them even sin of sodom– sodomy is not considered something reprehensible, and same-sex relationships receive official status.

Envy

Envy is a desecration of nature itself, damage to life, enmity against everything that God has given us, and therefore resistance to the Creator. There is no more destructive passion than envy in the human soul. Just as rust eats away iron, so envy eats up the soul in which it lives. In addition, envy is one of the most insurmountable types of enmity. And if good deeds incline other ill-wishers to meekness, then a good deed done to an envious person only irritates him.

With envy, as a weapon, the devil, the first destroyer of life, has wounded and overthrown man since the beginning of the world. From envy comes the death of the soul, alienation from God and the deprivation of all the blessings of life to the joy of the evil one, who himself was struck by the same passion. Therefore, envy must be guarded with special zeal.

But when envy has already taken possession of the soul, it leaves it only after it has driven it to complete recklessness. And let a sick person give alms with envy, lead a sober life and fast regularly, but if at the same time he envy his brother, then his crime is enormous. The envious person seems to live in death, considering those around him to be his enemies, even those who have not offended him in any way.

Envy is full of hypocrisy, therefore it is a terrible evil that fills the Universe with disasters. From envy the passion for acquisition and glory is born, pride and lust for power arise from it, and no matter what sin you remember, know: any evil stems from envy.

Envy originates from pride, because the proud person wants to rise above others. Because of this, it is difficult for him to tolerate equals around him, and even more so those who are better than him.

Gluttony

Gluttony is a sin that forces us to eat and drink only for pleasure. This passion leads to the fact that a person, as it were, ceases to be a rational being and becomes like cattle, which does not have the gift of speech and understanding. Gluttony is a great sin.

By “giving free rein” to the belly, we harm not only our health, but also all our virtues, especially chastity. Gluttony ignites lust, since excess food contributes to this. Lust leads to a fall, which is why it is so necessary that a person be well armed against this passion. You cannot give the womb as much as it asks for, but only what is necessary to maintain strength.

Various passions are born through gluttony, which is why it is considered one of the 7 deadly sins.

And if you want to remain human, restrain your belly and guard yourself with all care, so as not to accidentally be overcome by gluttony.

But first of all, think about how much hardship drunkenness and gluttony cause your stomach, how they depress your body. And what’s so special about gluttony? What new can eating splendid dishes give us? After all, their pleasant taste lasts only when they are in your mouth. And after you swallow them, not only the sweetness will remain, but also the memory of tasting them.

Anger

Anger removes a person’s soul from God, because an angry person spends his life in confusion and anxiety, losing health and peace, his body melts away, his flesh fades, his face is pale, his mind is exhausted, and his soul grieves, and his thoughts have no number. But everyone avoids him, because they do not expect healthy actions from him.

Anger is the most dangerous advisor, and what is done under its influence cannot be called prudent. There is no worse evil that a person in the grip of anger can do.

Nothing darkens clarity of thought and purity of soul more than intense anger. An angry person does not do anything properly because he cannot think straight. Therefore, he is likened to people who, due to damage to their senses, have lost the ability to reason. Anger can be compared to a strong, all-consuming fire, which, scorching the soul, harms the body and even the very sight of a person becomes unpleasant.

Anger is like fire, engulfing the entire human being, killing and burning it.

Dejection and laziness

Demons bring despondency to the soul, suggesting that its patience will be exhausted in a long wait God's Grace and she will leave living under the Law of God, because she recognizes it as too difficult. But patience, love and self-control can withstand the demons, and they will be confounded in their intentions.

Dejection and endless anxiety crush the strength of the soul, leading it to exhaustion. From despondency, drowsiness, idleness, wandering, restlessness, instability of body and mind, curiosity and talkativeness are born.

Dejection is the helper of all evil, so you should not make room in your heart for this feeling.

If each of the passions described here can be abolished by one of the Christian virtues, then despondency for a Christian is an all-defeating passion.

Conducted All-Russian Center studying public opinion(VTsIOM) showed the following:

A third of Russians most of who called themselves Orthodox, could not remember a single mortal sin.
Those who remember such sins most often name murder, theft and adultery. Murder was named a mortal sin by 43%, theft by 28%, adultery by 14% of respondents. 10% of respondents consider lying and perjury to be mortal sins, 8% - envy, 5% - pride and vanity, 4% - gluttony and gluttony. Apparently, remembering that “Rus' has joy in drinking,” only 3% of respondents classified it as consumption of alcohol is a mortal sin, the same number of Russians are intolerant of fornication, anger, harming others and betrayal. 2% consider despondency, laziness, greed and greed, blasphemy, suicide and abortion to be mortal sins. 1% - anger, hatred, disrespect for parents and foul language.

P.S. I also asked myself a similar question, but I didn’t remember much myself. There was some confusion in the concepts...

A.V. This, my dears, is how I got involved in a religious discussion just now. I began to explain to people everything about the church, about superstitions, why fasting is needed, etc. And then I, a sinner, was asked, as a seminarian, 2 questions. First: list the 10 commandments. To be honest, I was taken by surprise, I named five commandments, completely forgot the first three... In general, I was a complete fiasco. When I came home, I set myself to learn all 10 commandments, so that later people would not take seriously everything I tell them about religion. It turned out to be more difficult with the seven deadly sins. I couldn’t find any mention of them anywhere, I could only say: Murder, suicide, theft, fornication, sodomy. Maybe you can tell me?
In general, I noticed that many Orthodox Christians are not very knowledgeable in the region. of their own creed, precisely theoretically, I mean that many non-Orthodox people certainly blame us....

A.K. This is not in the Bible. Usually this refers to a list of the seven deadly sins according to Thomas Aquinas.

V.S. If we read the 10 commandments in Holy Scripture, then the 7 deadly sins are still a kind of convention. Any sin can become mortal if it is not confessed, if it is not healed, if it gives rise to a passion that has taken possession of a person...

Here's what we have on Wikipedia on this topic:

IN Christian tradition concepts occupy a special place sin And repentance. Sin for Christians is not just an offense or fault, it is something contrary to human nature (after all, man is created in the image and likeness of God). Sin is the depravity of a human being. Sin is a visible manifestation of the sinful fallen nature of a human being, which he acquired during the Fall.

The focus or dwelling place of sin in a person is his flesh (fallen body). From the flesh, sin penetrates the soul and manifests itself in the form of thoughts, words, emotions, passions, actions, etc.

A person is helpless before sin and cannot cope with it on his own; only God can deliver him from this vice, therefore a person needs salvation.

Types of Sin

There are three types of sin

• Personal sin- an act against conscience and the commandments of God.
• Original sin- damage human nature which arose as a result of the sin of our ancestors.
• Ancestral sin- a special hereditary susceptibility to some passion in a given clan (tribe, people, etc.), caused by the serious crimes of one’s ancestor (ancestors). This concept is quite new and not recognized by everyone.

St. Macarius the Great speaks about all three types of sin: “As soon as you withdraw from the world and begin to seek God and talk about Him, you will have to fight with your nature (original sin), with your old morals (personal sin) and with the skill that (ancestral sin) is innate to you” (Conversation 32:9).

An action (or inaction), a word, a thought, a desire, a feeling can be sinful.

According to Christian doctrine, there are a number of acts that are sinful and unworthy true Christian. Classification of acts on this basis based on biblical texts, especially on ten commandments of God's law and gospel commandments. Below is an approximate list of acts that are considered sins regardless of religion.

According to the Christian understanding of the Bible, a person who commits a voluntary sin (i.e., realizing that it is a sin and resistance to God), may become obsessed.

Sins against the Lord God

• pride;
• failure to fulfill the holy will of God;
• violation of the commandments: the ten commandments of the Law of God, gospel commandments, church commandments;
• unbelief and lack of faith;
• lack of hope for the Lord's mercy, despair;
• excessive reliance on God's mercy;
• hypocritical worship of God, without the love and fear of God;
• lack of gratitude to the Lord for all His blessings - including for the sorrows and illnesses sent down to them;
• appeal to psychics, astrologers, fortune tellers, fortune tellers;
• practicing “black” and “white” magic, witchcraft, fortune telling, spiritualism;
• superstition, belief in dreams, omens, wearing talismans, reading horoscopes even out of curiosity;
• blasphemy and grumbling against the Lord in the soul and in words;
• failure to fulfill vows made to God;
• calling on the name of God in vain, without necessity, swearing in the name of the Lord;
• blasphemous attitude towards the Holy Scriptures;
• shame and fear of professing faith;
• failure to read the Holy Scriptures;
• going to temple without diligence, laziness in prayer, absent-minded and cold prayer, absent-minded listening to readings and chants; being late for service and leaving the service early;
• disrespect for the feasts of God;
• thoughts about suicide, attempts to commit suicide;
• sexual immorality such as adultery, fornication, sodomy, sadomasochism, masturbation, etc.

Sins against one's neighbor

• lack of love for others;
• lack of love for enemies, hatred of them, wishing them harm;
• inability to forgive, repaying evil for evil;
• lack of respect for elders and to the bosses, to parents, grief and offense to parents;
• failure to fulfill a promise, non-payment of debts, open or secret appropriation of someone else's property;
• beating, attempt on someone else's life;
• killing babies in the womb ( abortions), advice to have abortions for neighbors;
• robbery, extortion;
• bribery;
• refusal to intervene for the weak and innocent, refusal to help someone in trouble;
• laziness and carelessness at work, disrespect for the work of others, irresponsibility;
• poor parenting is outside the Christian faith;
• cursing children;
• lack of mercy, stinginess;
• reluctance to visit patients;
• failure to pray for mentors, relatives, enemies;
• hardness of heart cruelty to animals, birds;
• destruction trees needlessly;
• bickering, non-yielding to neighbors, disputes;
• slander, condemnation, slander;
• gossip, retelling other people's sins, eavesdropping on other people's conversations;
• insult, enmity with neighbors, scandals, hysteria, curses, insolence, arrogant and free behavior towards one’s neighbor, mockery;
• hypocrisy;
• anger;
• suspicion of neighbors of unseemly acts;
• deception;
• perjury;
• seductive behavior, desire to seduce;
• jealousy;
• telling dirty jokes, corruption by one’s actions of one’s neighbors (adults and minors);
• friendship for self-interest and treason.

Sins against yourself

• vanity, honoring yourself as the bestpride , lack of humility and obedience, arrogance, arrogance, spiritual egoism, suspicion;
• lies, envy;
• idle talk, ridicule;
• foul language;
• irritation, indignation, resentment, resentment, grief;
• despondency, melancholy, sadness;
• doing good deeds for show;
• laziness, spending time in idleness, sleeping a lot;
• gluttony, gluttony;
• love for the earthly and material more than for the heavenly and spiritual;
• addiction to money things, luxury, pleasures;
• excessive attention to the flesh;
• desire for earthly honors and glory;
• excessive attachment to everything earthly, various kinds of things and worldly goods;
• drug use, drunkenness;
• playing cards, gambling;
• pimping, prostitution;
• performance of obscene songs and dances;
• watching pornographic films, reading pornographic books, magazines;
• acceptance of lustful thoughts, pleasure and delay in unclean thoughts;
• defilement in a dream, fornication (sex outside marriage);
• adultery (infidelity during marriage);
• allowing liberties to the crown and perversion in married life;
• masturbation (defilement of oneself with prodigal touches), immodest viewing of wives and young men;
• sodomy;
• bestiality;
• belittling your sins, blaming your neighbors, and not condemning yourself.

The lists of the Ten Commandments in the Jewish and Christian traditions are somewhat different.

1. I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; Let you have no other gods before Me.
2. You shall not make for yourself an idol or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth below, or that is in the water under the earth; You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate Me, and showing mercy to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.
3. Do not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not leave without punishment the one who takes His name in vain.
4. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy; six days thou shalt work and do all thy work in them, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: on it thou shalt not do any work, neither thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor [thy ox]. neither your donkey, nor any of your livestock, nor the stranger who is in your gates; For in six days the Lord created heaven and earth, the sea and everything in them, and rested on the seventh day; Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and sanctified it.
5. Honor your father and your mother, so that it may go well with you and that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
6. Thou shalt not kill.
7. Don't commit adultery.
8. Don't steal.
9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house; You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his field, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor any of his livestock, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.