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I came across this news article on yahoo today and was extremely disappointed (I’ve posted it below). This is not Biblical. This is not a sound doctrine. This is definitely not according to God’s word.

Sins can only be forgiven through repentance and believing/confessing Jesus Christ as our Lord and Saviour.

And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. Matthew 24:4

But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:8

For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Romans 6:23

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. John 14:6

"The Bible stands like a rock undaunted…I will plant my feet on its firm foundation, for the Bible stands"    

Tuesday March 11, 10:05 AM 

Seven deadly sins could be given a makeover

By Stephanie Kennedy 

With the number of people going to confession in steep decline, a high ranking Vatican official wants to update the church’s list of mortal sins to make them relevant to the 21st century.

Pope Gregory the Great devised the seven deadly sins - envy, pride, gluttony, lust, anger, greed and sloth - in the 6th century.

The deadly or mortal sins are in contrast to venial sins, which are relatively minor sins that can be forgiven.

A person that commits a mortal sin risks burning in hell unless absolved through confession and penitence.

But with 60 per cent of Italian Catholics shunning confession, the Vatican says it is time to modernise the list of deadly sins.

Monsignor Gianfranco Girotti heads the Vatican body that issues decisions on matters of conscience.

He has told the Vatican’s newspaper that while sin used to concern the individual, today it has a social resonance due to globalisation.

He thinks the seven deadly sins should be updated to take into account modern developments such as genetic modification, experiments on humans, pollution, causing social injustice, causing poverty, taking drugs and obscene wealth.

Father Antonio Pelayo is a Vatican Analyst. He says the view of sin needs to be broader.

"We’re too obsessed with the sin of sex - it seems that you can only sin sexually," he said.

"Instead, there many other sins that are perhaps much more grave that don’t have anything to do with sex, that have to do with life, that have to do with the environment, that have to do with justice."

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