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== Definition of sin ==
== Definition of sin ==
*from Catechism [https://www.usccb.org/sites/default/files/flipbooks/catechism/460/ CCC 1871]:
<blockquote>Sin is an utterance, a deed, or a desire contrary to the eternal law (St. Augustine, Faust 22: PL 42, 418). </blockquote>


*'''sin is an offense against God'''
=== Sin is an offense against God ===
* '''sin is disobedience to God'''
 
** from Catechism [https://www.usccb.org/sites/default/files/flipbooks/catechism/460/ CCC 1871]:
* from Catechism [https://www.usccb.org/sites/default/files/flipbooks/catechism/460/ CCC 1871]:
<blockquote>Sin is an utterance, a deed, or a desire contrary to the eternal law (St. Augustine, Faust 22: PL 42, 418). It is an offense against God. It rises up against God in a disobedience contrary to the obedience of Christ.</blockquote>
 
* '''sin is knowing it is wrong and doing it anyway'''
<blockquote>It is an offense against God. </blockquote>
** from [https://bible.usccb.org/bible/james/4?17 Jas 4:17]  
 
=== Sin is disobedience to God ===
* from Catechism [https://www.usccb.org/sites/default/files/flipbooks/catechism/460/ CCC 1871]:<blockquote>It rises up against God in a disobedience contrary to the obedience of Christ.</blockquote>
 
=== Sin is separation from God ===
 
* when in [https://bible.usccb.org/bible/luke/1:28 Lk 1:28], the Archangel Gabriel spoke to Mary at the Annunciation, he told her,
 
<blockquote>And coming to her, he said, “Hail, favored one! The Lord is with you.”</blockquote>
 
* "The Lord is with you" means that Mary is no separated from God;
* thereby she has no sin.
 
=== Sin is knowing it is wrong and doing it anyway ===
 
* from [https://bible.usccb.org/bible/james/4?17 Jas 4:17]  
<blockquote>"So for one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, it is a sin."</blockquote>
<blockquote>"So for one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, it is a sin."</blockquote>


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See [[Salvation History]]
See [[Salvation History]]
== Sins that cry to Heaven for vengeance ==
''peccata clamantia, = "''screaming sins"
# '''Murder'''
#* The "blood of Abel": homicide, infanticide, fratricide, patricide, and matricide
# '''Sodomy'''
#* The "sin of the Sodomites": non-procreative sexual acts (sodomy). (''cf''. Jude 1:7).
# '''Oppression of the poor'''
#* The "cry of the people oppressed in Egypt, the cry of the foreigner, the widow, and the orphan": oppression of the poor.
# '''Injustice to workers'''
#* The "injustice to the wage earner": taking advantage of and defrauding workers (''cf''. James 5:4).


== Slavery to sin ==
== Slavery to sin ==