Sin Etc

Question 1

What is sin?

Answer 1

transgression of the divine law (Ambrose) OR any word, deed, desire contrary to God’s eternal law (Augustine)

Question 2

How do we know eternal law?

Answer 2

natural reason or additional revelation

Question 3

Sin in general?

Answer 3

deflection of right reason or morally bad human act

Question 4

What does sin require to be formal?

Answer 4

advertence of the intellect and consent of the will

Question 5

Is every sin an offence against God?

Answer 5

yes

Question 6

What is original sin?

Answer 6

privation of original justice inherited at birth

Question 7

What is personal sin?

Answer 7

offence against God committed by the deliberate will of the individual

Question 8

What are divisions of Personal Sin?

Answer 8

actual (transitory/omission) or habitual (permanent habit)

Question 9

What are kinds of Actual Sin?

Answer 9

commission, omission, thought, word, or deed, ignorance, weakness, malice, against Holy Ghost, capital sins, Formal, mortal

Question 10

What are sins of comission?

Answer 10

contrary to a negavitve precept e.g. theft (do something not supposed to do)

Question 11

What are sins of omission?

Answer 11

transgressions of a positive precept e.g. missing Mass (neglect something you are to do)

Question 12

What are sins of thought, word, deed?

Answer 12

either committed by mind alone, or by mouth or action

Question 13

What sins of ignorance?

Answer 13

proceed from lack of knowledge

Question 14

What sins of weakness?

Answer 14

result of passion which the acts less voluntary

Question 15

What are sins of malice?

Answer 15

proceed from an evil will (w/o ignorance or passion)

Question 16

What are sins against the Holy Ghost?

Answer 16

committed by the deliberate contempt of some grace withdrawing man from sin

Question 17

What are the usual sins against the Holy Ghost?

Answer 17

presumption, despair, resisting the known truth of Christianity, envy of the grace possessed by one’s neighbor, obstinancy, impenitence

Question 18

What are sins crying to heaven for Vengenace?

Answer 18

murder, sodomy, oppression of orphans and widows and defrauding workers of their just wage

Question 19

Why are sins crying to heaven for Vengenace called so?

Answer 19

grievous injury done to social order

Question 20

What are the capital sins?

Answer 20

pride, envy, covetousness, anger, lust, gluttony, sloth (PLACESG)

Question 21

What is difference between vainglory and pride?

Answer 21

vainglory is external manifestation of pride

Question 22

What does STA say is the greatest sin?

Answer 22

covetousness

Question 23

Why are the capital sins called this?

Answer 23

roots from which other sins spring

Question 24

What is formal sin?

Answer 24

voluntary (imputable) and free transgression of the divine law

Question 25

What is material sin?

Answer 25

involuntary transgression of the divine law (vincible ignorance or violence which destroys voluntary consent)

Question 26

What are material sins against?

Answer 26

objective law and subjective conscience

Question 27

Something which lacks voluntariness, what type of sin?

Answer 27

material

Question 28

What is mortal sin?

Answer 28

destroys sanctifying grace and causes the death of the soul

Question 29

What is venial sin?

Answer 29

offence against God which merely lessens the fervour of charity

Question 30

What are carnal or spiritual sins?

Answer 30

gluttony, lust

Question 31

what are inordinate spiritual sins?

Answer 31

pride, vaingglory

Question 32

What are sins against God?

Answer 32

violate divine law (blasphemy, heresy)

Question 33

What are sins against neigbor?

Answer 33

suicide, drunkness, theft, calumny

Question 34

How are all sins bad?

Answer 34

because they are against God

Question 35

What are theological sins against?

Answer 35

neigbor,self, God

Question 36

How many ways of commiting sin of another (accessory)?

Answer 36

Nine

Question 37

What sins are foriveable?

Answer 37

ones which we will not allow God to forgive

Question 38

What is the nature of mortal sin?

Answer 38

aversion from God, adherence to creatures which is seriously inordinate, grave injury to the rational nature of man and the social order

Question 39

What are three conditions must be verified for mortal sin?

Answer 39

grave matter, full advertence, full consent

Question 40

How is grave matter determined?

Answer 40

object and circumstances of act

Question 41

What is full advertence?

Answer 41

attention

Question 42

If full advertence is defective?

Answer 42

then venial sin or no sin

Question 43

When is full consent presumed?

Answer 43

full advertence and no external violence: fear and passion, diminish but not destroy (unless no full advertence)

Question 44

When are advertence and consent imperfect?

Answer 44

drunkeness, half-asleep, half-drunk, surge of passion, phobia, mania

Question 45

What is the essence of venial sin?

Answer 45

certain disorder, not complete aversion to man's last end

Question 46

What sins are "of their nature" venial?

Answer 46

e.g. jocial lie

Question 47

why are sins of "of their nature" venial?

Answer 47

moral object implies a slight disorder

Question 48

How is a sin venial "because of parvity of matter"?

Answer 48

sins in themselves are grave but because of slight matter become slight disorder

Question 49

How are sins venial "through imperfection in the act?"

Answer 49

lack of full advertence or consent (semi-deliberate impure thoughts)

Question 50

How does venial sin become mortal?

Answer 50

erronius conscience, maliscious intent through accumulation of matter

Question 51

How do we distinguish mortal from venial?

Answer 51

HS, Church, Doctors (teachers)

Question 52

What are theological species?

Answer 52

mortal or venial

Question 53

What are distinguishing species of sins?

Answer 53

moral object, virtue, precept