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He used the term "concupiscence" to refer to sinful lust. [6] He taught that Adam's sin [ a ] is transmitted by concupiscence, or "hurtful desire", [ 7 ] [ 8 ] resulting in humanity becoming a massa damnāta (mass of perdition, condemned crowd), with much enfeebled, though not destroyed, freedom of will. [ 9 ]
Lust is an intense desire for something. [1] [2] Lust can take any form such as the lust for sexuality (see libido), money, or power.It can take such mundane forms as the lust for food (see gluttony) as distinct from the need for food or lust for redolence, when one is lusting for a particular smell that brings back memories.
The concepts of the sins involved were in part based on Greco-Roman and Biblical antecedents. Later, the concept of seven deadly sins evolved further, based upon historical context based upon the Latin language of the Roman Catholic Church, though with a significant influence from the Greek language and associated religious traditions.
According to biblical scholars, this is merely an aetiological myth to theologically justify a pre-existing place name; [7] a number of biblical scholars have proposed that the graves (kibroth) in the name kibroth-hattaavah actually refers to a stone circle or cairns, [8] or to recently discovered Chalcolithic (~fourth Millennium BC) megalithic ...
The definition of sin is a vital doctrine to the Methodist Churches, especially those of the Holiness movement. Richard S. Taylor explains "Many, perhaps most, of the errors which have protruded themselves into Christian theology can be finally traced to a faulty conception of sin.
Inspired jointly by the biblical Old Testament and the works of ancient Roman writers, contrapasso is a recurring theme in the Divine Comedy, in which a soul's fate in the afterlife mirrors the sins committed in life; here the restless, unreasoning nature of lust results in souls cast about in a restless, unreasoning wind.
Thou shalt not commit adultery" (Biblical Hebrew: לֹא תִנְאָף, romanized: Lōʾ t̲inʾāp̲) is found in the Book of Exodus of the Hebrew Bible. It is considered the sixth commandment by Roman Catholic and Lutheran authorities, but the seventh by Jewish and most Protestant authorities.
The Catholic Church disapproves of lust: "Sexual pleasure is morally disordered when sought for itself, isolated from its procreative and unitive purposes". [ 44 ] The biblical quote "But I say to you, everyone who looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart.", [ 95 ] is considered as proof that the sins ...