Difference of sins according to basic definitions: original, ancestral, personal
The word "sin", as the equivalent of the Greek word "ἁμαρτία", means, in a literal interpretation, "missing the target", "missing". In this regard, the scope of the concept “sin” includes two fundamentally different meanings.
In the first case, the term “sin” embraces the concept of a thought, thought, desire or act committed by a person (or an evil spirit) contrary to the Divine will. In this regard, the Russian “sin” is an analogue of the Greek: “ἀνομία” - “lawlessness”, “injustice”.
In the second option, sin refers not to a specific (illegal) action, but to the consequences of lawlessness that negatively reflect on the nature and personality of a person. Original sin and generational sin fall under this category of “sin.”
Original sin is the corruption of human essence, transmitted to the descendants of Adam and Eve by hereditary means, and expressed in the fact that all people (with the exception of only one Man - the Lord Jesus Christ, conceived and born in a special, supernatural way) are born with damage in soul and body , receptive to evil.
Original sin does not make a person personally guilty before God. It only contributes to the formation of a sinful disposition of will in him. In turn, sinful actions committed under the influence of original sin bring Divine wrath upon a person and make him personally responsible before the Creator.
Ancestral sin, like original sin, is transmitted hereditarily, from parents to children, from ancestors to descendants. Like original sin, in form it represents corruption, a kind of moral disease.
The difference is that original sin affects human nature and affects every person (with the exception of Christ). Ancestral sin is reflected not on the essence (nature, human nature, which, let us recall, is the same for all people), but on the individual characteristics of representatives of one or another hereditary line. We can say that the factor of ancestral sin is, as it were, superimposed on the factor of original sin, aggravating it (we emphasize that the forms and degrees of manifestation of this sin can be different; let us assume that the son or grandson of a drunkard will not necessarily have an acute penchant for alcohol; biblical history provides us with a lot examples of how clearly children of the same parents can differ from each other).
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Below is a list of sins compiled by the monks of the Spaso-Prilutsky Monastery. If anyone doesn't want to burn in hell forever, this is a must read! So, in order not to go to hell, you must: not commit, not have, not experience the following sinful actions, thoughts, impulses:
1. Abortion. 2. Unreasonable insurance. 3. Aimless collecting. 4. Unnatural fornication (handjob, or masturbation, same-sex copulation, bestiality). 5. Prodigal thoughts, dreams. Congratulations on these thoughts. 6. Abusive, cruel, caustic words. 7. In the presence of strangers, constantly playing as if on stage, in order to attract attention. 8. Attention to other qualities of your body (posture, slimness, athleticism). 9. Attention to the beauty of your face, appearance, use of cosmetics. 10. Indignation of the heart with rage. 11. Theft. 12. Enmity. 13. Lying to show off. 14. Hot temper. 15. High opinion of yourself, Self-worth. 16. Arrogance. 17. Displacement of God from the mind and heart by various addictions and worldly, vain concerns. 18. Anger 19. Pride 20. Robbery.
21. Insolence. 22. Long-term non-participation in the sacraments of Confession and Holy Communion. 23. Thirst for praise. 24. Cruelty to animals. 25. Envy (grief, desire for harm to one’s neighbor regarding his well-being). 26. Malice. 27. Schadenfreude (joy, rejoicing over failures, misfortunes of one’s neighbor). 28. Playing cards 29. Excessive sedation with sleep. 30. Adultery. 31. Pampered life (lack of bodily labor, habit of sleeping a lot, attachment to comfort, etc.) 32. Exhausting oneself with additional work in order to earn more money. 33. Looking for easy ways. 34. Seeking human glory (respect, praise, honor, fame). 35. Confession of false religions (non-Orthodox). 36. Slander. 37. Deceit. 38. Blasphemy (ridicule of any religious truths). 39. Smoking, drinking, drug addiction. 40. Laziness towards every good deed, especially prayer.
41. Hypocrisy (pretending to be a pious person, doing good deeds for show). 42. Lie. 43. Cunning, cunning, dishonesty. 44. Fornication 45. Covetousness 46. Cowardice. 47. Cowardly timidity. 48. Money-grabbing (purchase of luxury goods). 49. Thoughts about suicide. 50. Impudence, rudeness. 51. Battery. Murder. 52. Unreverent attitude towards shrines. 53. Ingratitude to God for everything that happens. 54. Carelessness. 55. Disbelief in God as a Provider, a Guardian of our lives. 56. Disbelief in God as an Omnipresent, All-Seeing One. 57. Inattention, absent-mindedness in prayer. 58. Intemperance of spouses during fasting, on the eve of Sundays and holidays. 59. Failure to raise children in the Orthodox faith. 60. Reluctance to have true knowledge of the Orthodox faith. 61. Illegal relationships before marriage. 62. Unmerciful towards the poor and needy. 63. Hatred. 64. Disobedience to superiors, state. authorities, etc. 65. Failure to attend church on Sundays and holidays. 66. Disrespect for parents, refusal to help them. 67. Disrespectful attitude towards the state. authorities, superiors, guardians of public order, military personnel, senior citizens. 68. Continuous gluttony. 69. Non-self-reproach (do not consider yourself guilty when failures, misfortunes, and sorrows befall). 70. Failure to observe fasts. 71. Impatience in any matter. 72. Impatience of accusations, admonitions, reproaches. 73. Excessive breaking of the fast at Christmas, Easter (drinking, partying, visiting guests). 74. Deception for the purpose of profit. 75. Seeking help from the servants of Satan (sorcerers, sorcerers, psychics, hypnotists, bioenergetics, coders, etc.). 76. Sadness of the soul, loss of a good mood for various reasons (ate little, or tasteless, lost an item, money; no opportunity to rest; disrespected, scolded, etc.) 77. Insult, anger a neighbor, cause him annoyance, dissatisfaction. 78. Denial of existence (atheism) 79. Despair (lack of hope in God in the misfortunes that have befallen). 80. Remembrance (to harbor anger for an offense caused).
81. Sadness. 82. Carnage 83. Spying, eavesdropping, reading other people's letters. 84. Breaking things in anger. 85. Visiting the mausoleum, laying flowers at the monuments to the leaders of the revolution. 86. Haste in prayer. 87. Loss of meaning in life. 88. Idle pastime (tours, restaurants, discos, concerts, gambling, sports, etc.). 89. Idle thoughts (empty fantasies, memories, mental dialogues). 90. Idle talk, jokes, blasphemy, gossip. 91. Preferring yourself to everyone. 92. Premonition of something terrible. 93. Contempt for one's neighbor. 94. Pre-controversy. 95. The habit of interfering in conversation. 96. The habit of pleasing yourself with tasty food. 97. Addiction to money, property. 98. Addiction to certain things (favorite cup, vase, etc.) 99. Cursing your neighbor, wishing him death, misfortune. 100. Curse yourself, wish yourself death, misfortune.
101. Curse a person in anger, wish him death, misfortune. 102. Disclosure of other people's weaknesses and bad deeds. 103. Conversations in the temple. 104. Disposition towards worldly sciences, desire to excel in them in order to acquire earthly honors. 105. Murmur (complain about your bad fate, blame your neighbors for your failures, consider all troubles undeserved). 106. Self-admiration. 107. Self-justification: after committing a sin, justify yourself, forgetting about repentance; when someone denounces, try to make excuses, find reasons, shift the blame from oneself. 108. Sacrilege (disdain, mockery of a temple, cross, icon and other sacred objects). 109. Tendency to leadership, desire to command. 110. Tendency to argue. 111. Tendency to attract attention (joking, making jokes, being original; dressing flashily). 112. Tendency to humiliate the vigilante. 113. Stinginess, greed. 114. Ridiculousness. 115. Seducing one's neighbor into sin (paying with vodka, exposing one's body on the beach, wearing short, immodest clothes, etc.) 116. Cohabitation in a marriage not sanctified by the Sacrament of Wedding. 117. Doubt about the existence of hell, eternal torment. 118. Doubt or disbelief in any other truths of the Orthodox faith. 119. Doubts about the existence of an afterlife 120. A dispute turning into a scandal that outrages the heart with anger.
121. Passionate desire to get rich. 122. The desire to look no worse than others, purchasing fashionable clothes, things, rich furniture, dishes, a car, etc. for this purpose. 123. The desire to teach others, point out, give advice. 124. Shame to confess one’s sins, hiding them at Confession. 125. Superstition (belief in omens, dreams; belief in the evil eye, damage; fear of sorcerers). 126. Consider yourself an extraordinary person, endowed with some abilities, intelligence, knowledge, strength, beauty, etc. 127. Consider yourself righteous before God, worthy of the Kingdom of Heaven for the sake of your own virtues. 128. Dancing. 129. Pushing in anger. Beatings. Murder. 130. Difficulty asking for forgiveness. 131. Vanity 132. Dejected state of mind, powerlessness, apathy. 133. Evasion of service in the Armed Forces. 134. Dejection 135. Unnecessarily mentioning evil spirits; cursing. 136. Mention of the name of God, the holy saints of God in vain conversation. 137. Stubbornness (unwillingness to give in when possible). 138. Participation in demonstrations. Celebrating the New Year (falls during the Nativity Fast). 139. Participation in pioneer, Komsomol, party and other organizations that deny the existence of God. 140. Familiarity (free treatment of others). 141. Negligent performance of one’s duties at work and at home. 142. Boasting 143. It is bad to talk about your neighbor. 144. Frequent, unnecessary walks, visiting friends. 145. People-pleasing, flattery, compliments; giving praise and honor to people for the sake of one’s own goals or out of fear of the boss. 146. Reading books on sinful topics, watching TV shows, photographs.
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Difference of sins according to the severity of guilt and responsibility before God: mortals and others
By and large, mortal sins can be called all those sins that are not washed away by repentance. After all, any sins push a person away from God, and outside of God he is not able to achieve eternal salvation, to be rewarded with eternal blissful peace in Heaven.
But there is also a practice of using the concept of “mortal sin” more closely. Within the framework of this use, mortal sins traditionally refer to only the most serious crimes, those that especially strongly attract a person to spiritual death, the abysses of hell and eternal destruction. These include, for example, homicide, suicide, flirting with otherworldly forces.
In addition to clearly villainous acts, the list of mortal sins is supplemented by those that in the eyes of many people do not even look dangerous. The severity of these sins is manifested not in a single commission, but in the fact that when they are repeated repeatedly, they contribute to the formation and development of sinful passions: fornication, gluttony, drunkenness, love of money, anger, despondency, pride, vanity and others.
Passion is strong and dangerous because it captivates and fetters human will. The object of sinful passion often plays the role of a kind of idol for a person. Wasting energy and time on satisfying passionate aspirations, the sinner becomes inattentive to fulfilling his religious, spiritual and moral duty.
The most dangerous type of sin is considered to be blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. As follows from the warning of the Lord Jesus Christ, in case of repentance and turning to God, a person will be forgiven of any sins, including mortal ones, with the exception of one: blasphemy against the Spirit (Matthew 12:31).
But even this type of crime does not deprive the wicked of the opportunity to inherit the Kingdom of Glory. Otherwise, it would turn out that anyone, even a former atheist, has only one road - to hell; but that's not true.
Another thing is that by raising a battle against the Holy Spirit, the wicked himself builds a wall that prevents the realization of personal salvation. After all, cleansing and liberation from sin is possible only with the assistance of the grace of the Holy Spirit. Since God does not save anyone by force, and the sinner, by blaspheming the Holy Spirit, thereby rejects His grace, he cannot cleanse himself, become righteous and holy.
Animality
This vice characterizes people who live exclusively for themselves, satisfying all their “animal”, primary needs. They are often stupid and ignorant.
Another very terrible human vice is greed. This can be either simple hoarding or a thirst for accumulating wealth, a desire to own as many valuables and material goods as possible. Such people never share anything, and the feeling of generosity is simply alien to them.
The next vice of a person, which, by the way, is sometimes very difficult to recognize. Hypocritical people in every situation choose a position that is convenient for themselves in order to extract maximum benefit. Such persons put on a “mask” in order to look better in the eyes of the “right” people than they really are.
The next human vice is envy. It often manifests itself in hostility and dislike towards a certain person who has reached great heights. Someone else's well-being overshadows the envious person's mind and leads him into a constant state of dissatisfaction with himself and his wealth.
Sins committed in knowledge or ignorance
Sins committed out of ignorance are those which, when committed, a person does not know or even realize that he is violating God’s law.
Actually, for the most part, even those who are completely far from religion know about the sinfulness of their thoughts and desires. The natural moral law is inscribed in the very nature of man and is revealed in the voice of conscience. If a person lives an unrighteous life, the voice of conscience in him becomes dull, although it does not disappear completely. In some cases, it may be difficult for a person with a seared conscience to distinguish a sinful act from a non-sinful one.
Meanwhile, there are also types of sins whose illegality is either extremely difficult or impossible to identify on the basis of the testimony of conscience. Such sins include, for example, preaching a distorted teaching about God. On the one hand, malicious heretics can be preachers of false doctrine, and such people are in special demand. But on the other hand, a confused Christian (including under the influence of heretical mentors) can falsely confess faith. This sin, like others, is healed by repentance.
About the sculptures
If you want to take a closer look at all the vices of humanity, you should go to Moscow and visit Bolotnaya Square. It was there, in 2001, that a series of monuments dedicated to the negative aspects of human character were unveiled. This composition is called “Children – Victims of the Vices of Adults.” Two children play hide and seek while they are surrounded by 13 three-meter tall sculptures with heads of fish or animals. As the author Mikhail Shemyakin said, this was done on purpose, because human vices are usually depicted in exaggerated images. The monuments are located in strict order. Among them one can find theft, prostitution, drug addiction, ignorance, alcoholism, pseudoscience, sadism, indifference, propaganda of violence, exploitation of child labor, war and poverty. One monument is for the memoryless.
What are human vices
In religious and moral concepts, vice is defined as a constant and uncontrollable desire to commit a certain type of sin. Constantly thinking about this is a sinful passion.
Vladimir Dal, in his explanatory dictionary, described vice as a spiritual and moral defect, an action contrary to goodness and truth. This is evil and lies, as a quality and property of a person, moral perversion and deliberate distortion of reality. Vice is defined by an inclination towards a bad life, for worse.
Corporal defect in the form of deformity, physical defects are not considered sinful acts. They are created by nature. A cripple is often a righteous person, a true believer and observant of all the Laws of God.
