However, one’s blameworthiness may be lessened by certain factors. Sins such as blasphemy, sexual sins, killing other than in self-defense and so forth are mortal by their nature. When the Church teaches that certain sins can be mortal, it can only speak to the objective gravity of the matter. Like what you're reading? Sign up to receive our daily email! Hence there are “subjective” elements in determining the blameworthiness of a person. So, if a person doesn’t believe it is grave, is he off the hook?Īnswer: Three things are required for a person to commit mortal sin: The offense is a grave matter, there is sufficient knowledge of that, and there is full consent of the will. You have to believe it’s grave for it to be mortal. Question: It used to be that some sins were mortal, period. There are exceptions, such as Moses and Isaiah, but even then it is not clear that they saw the actual face of God (cf. The Old Testament often remarked in some form the impossibility of looking on the face of God (cf. Generally speaking, theologians do not consider it possible to look on the radiance of the Holy Trinity in our current state. It is interesting that he “heard” of joys unspeakable and glories untold, not that he saw them. Hence, he experienced the glory of heaven. He adds that he “was caught up into Paradise and heard ineffable things, which no one may utter” (2 Cor 12:4). Hence, when Paul says he was “caught up to the third heaven,” he means he was taken up or given an experience of the heaven where God dwells. The second heavens was where the stars and planets are. But, broadly speaking, the Jews reckoned three “heavens.” The first heaven was where the clouds are and the birds fly. Thus Jesus was in the tomb for some part of three days, even if not three days exactly.Īnswer: Jewish cosmology had some complexities too lengthy to detail here. I might not even mean I was there a whole month, just that I was there for some time during that month. For example, I might say, “I was with my family last month.” By this I do not necessarily mean that I arrived there on exactly the first of the month and departed on the last day of the month. Even in modern parlance, we can speak of time strictly or loosely. The ancient Jews were comfortable in reckoning partial days as a whole day. ![]() The Lord was in the tomb for one whole day, and parts of two others. Can you explain this?Īnswer: The text in saying “three days” does not necessarily mean 72 hours exactly. ![]() However, I cannot find three days between Good Friday and Easter. ![]() Question: The Nicene Creed says that Jesus “suffered death and was buried, and rose on the third day.” In Matthew, Jesus says “the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights” (12:40).
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