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    9 months ago

    I don’t think that’s true, unless someone wants to find a better source. But the bible passages listed on Wikipedia are pretty clearly about food.

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      Wow there are some silly reasons for gluttony:

      Eating at the wrong time
      Wanting a particular food
      Enhancing taste of food
      Enjoying taste of food
      Having opinions about food preparation
      Liking Eating food
      Making bad trades for food

      Although some of these feel made up. Someone doing one of these and then eventually dying doesn’t mean it was caused by gluttony, but there are examples in the wiki where that’s the case. Others feel like cases of ‘committing other sins while interacting with food or while it is around’ and someone tried to make it about the food

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        Yeah, these are made up. The Bible is a higher authority than the opinions of saints.

        • Eating before the time of meals.
          This is specifically for eating before a meal. But 1 Corinthians 11:34 says that if you’re hungry, you should eat at home before a group meal so that you’re not hogging food at the meal.
        • Seeking better quality foods.
          The example given was the Israelites complaining about the food they were given. That doesn’t mean you can’t take food you have access to.
        • Preparing food better.
          Matthew 5:13 - “But what good is salt if it has lost its flavor?” Jesus clearly saw the value in seasoning.
        • Eating more than you need.
          It is true that you should eat in moderation. I don’t know if it’s a sin, but Proverbs has a few things to say about it. But the example given here was Sodom, whose sins included gluttony. Or rather, gluttony while there were poor people. Overeating at the expense of others is different from just overeating.
        • Taking food too eagerly.
          If it’s to the point of idolizing food (prioritizing it over God and His causes,) then yes. But if you’re at a friend’s house and they bring out mac & cheese and you cheer, there’s nothing wrong with that. Y’know, as long as you’re not being crazy like snatching it out of their hands.
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        Those are all careful designed to control people in one way or another. Tired of people so concerned by food that it’s all they talk about while you keep it all? Say the magic man in the sky made it illegal

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          or maybe when you live in a society without great surplus and supermarkets managing food stores (espacilly during the winter) is a matter of life and death

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    Deadly sins are not in bible, but a later invention in catholic church

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      I think the closest thing is Proverbs 6:16-19,(went with… NIV I guess?) Haughty eyes A false/lying tongue Hands that shed innocent blood A heart that devises wicked schemes Feet that are quick to rush to evil False witness who pours out lies And… a person who sturs up conflict in the community.

      I grew up JW so NWT had different wording, but most of those are lies, attitude, and people who start shit. The most specific one would be the innocent murder and lying ones.

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    This is unfortunately not true, but like the Bible the deadly sins were made up. An omnipresent being with no concept of humanity and life wouldn’t give two sharts if you had some ice cream twice in a day

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      An omnipresent being with no concept of humanity and life

      Whose Bible were you reading?

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        Some Christian denominations don’t follow the trinity and consider Jesus and God as completely separate beings, with Jesus being the only creation God did without going through Jesus (only begotten son). For anyone who learned based on that, God couldn’t possibly have experienced human life, though at least the ones I’m familiar with God still uses Jesus as more the judge than himself.

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          I don’t think that quite lines up with the Bible, but even then, God is still omniscient and would have knowledge (and thus a concept) of humanity and life even if He didn’t experience it firsthand.

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          If you want the Logos doctrine, I can serve it hot and hot. before he was begotten he was not.

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    A bit of a tangent but the year of jubilee is an interesting concept in the Torah. The idea is every 49 years they did an economic reset. Slaves were freed, debts forgiven, and land returned.

    Unsurprisingly the concept was very appealing to enslaved people. During the US Civil War, many enslaved folks used it as a justification and rallying cry to escape to the north. In Defense of Looting argues that this was one of the most effective instances of mass political theft in history. This also had the effect of hollowing out the South’s economy, swelling the North’s military ranks, and scaring the shit out of racists everywhere.

    I don’t think reconstruction would have gone as far as it did without this mass political action and the power it gave formerly enslaved people.

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    Moses originally had 3 tablets with the divine Commandments, but broke one in anger. A disciple would later recover a fragment, containing the start of the 13th Commandment: XIII THOU SHALT LIGMA…