Slide 1:I close my eyes and see
fallen man's tendency to sin. Click to proceed>
Slide 2:LUST Lust (or lechery) is an inordinate craving for sexual intercourse often to the point of assuming a self-indulgent and sometimes violent character. It is a desire of the flesh of another (outside of matrimony), and is considered a sin, or impure act, in the three major Abrahamic religions. In Islam, lascivious glances and thoughts are wrong. As the Prophet Mohammed once said, “The fornication of the eyes is to look with lust; the fornication of the tongue is to speak lustful things; the fornication of the hands is to touch with lust; the fornication of the feet is to walk towards lust; the fornication of the heart is to desire evil.”
Slide 3:GLUTTONY Gluttony, over-indulgence and over-consumption of food, drink or intoxicants to the point of waste. It is not universally considered a sin; depending on the culture, it can be seen either a vice or a sign status. In the words of nineteenth-century Russian Bishop Ignatius Brianchaninov: Wise temperance of the stomach is a door to all the virtues. Restrain the stomach and you will enter Paradise. But if you please and pamper your stomach, you will hurl yourself over the precipice of bodily impurity, into the fire of wrath and fury, you will coarsen and darken your mind, and in this way you will ruin your powers of attention and self-control, your sobriety and vigilance.
Slide 4:GREED Greed is the excessive or rapacious desire and pursuit of money, wealth, power. It is generally considered a vice, and one of the seven deadly sins in Catholicism. Greed is a form of idolatry, according to the Bible. It is the desire for material wealth or gain, ignoring the realm of the spiritual. Medieval theologian Thomas Aquinas said of greed: “t is a sin directly against one’s neighbour since one man cannot over-abound in external riches, without another man lacking them… it is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man contemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things.”
Slide 5:SLOTH Sloth is defined as spiritual or actual apathy, putting off what God asks you to do, or not doing it or anything at all. Several religious views concerning the need for one to work to support society and further God’s plan and work by doing so reflects that by not being active alone, you invite the desire to sin on its own. “For Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.”
Sloth is the desire for ease, even at the expense of doing the known will of God. Whatever we do in life requires effort. Everything we do is to be a means of salvation. The slothful person is unwilling to do what God wants because of the effort it takes to do it. Sloth becomes a sin when it slows down and even brings to a halt the energy we must expend in using the means to salvation.
Slide 6:WRATH Wrath also know as anger or ‘rage’, may be described as inordinate and uncontrolled feelings of hatred and anger seeking revenge outside the workings of the justice system. The transgressions born of vengeance are among the most serious, including murder, assault and in extreme cases, genocide. In the Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer called Anger “the fervent blood of Man.”
Dante described vengeance as “love of justice perverted to revenge and spite.” In its original form, the sin of wrath also encompassed anger pointed internally rather that externally. Thus suicide was deemed as the ultimate, albeit tragic, expression of wrath directed inwardly, a final rejection of God’s gifts.
Slide 7:ENVY Envy may be defined as an emotion that occurs when a person lacks another’s superior quality, achievement, or possession and either desires it or wishes that the other lacked it. It is a universal and most unfortunate aspect of human nature because not only is the envious person rendered unhappy by his envy, but also wishes to inflict misfortune on others. In English-speaking cultures, envy is often associated with the colour green, as ‘green with envy.’ Bertrand Russell said “envy was one of the most potent causes of unhappiness.” Aristotle defined envy “as the pain caused by the good fortune of others.”
Slide 8:PRIDE Pride is, depending on the context, either a high sense of the worth of one’s self or own or a pleasure taken in the contemplation of these things. One definition of pride in the first sense comes from Augustine: “the love of one’s own excellence.” Pride is sometimes viewed as excessive or as a vice, sometimes as proper or as a virtue. While some philosophers such as Aristotle consider pride a profound virtue most world religions consider it a sin. Nietzsche saw pride as an example of a previous, master set of morals that had been replaced with slave moralities. In this, pride was good, because it acknowledges the good and the noble, rejecting the weak and insipid. Without pride, Nietzsche argued, we will remain subservient.
Slide 9:Made by POWER POINT XIBY SHOW Music choice: a piece of smooth jazz by Chris Botti called STREETS AHEAD from the album More Smooth Jazz On A Summer’s Day