{"id":2718,"date":"2018-07-07T14:28:18","date_gmt":"2018-07-07T21:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/?p=2718"},"modified":"2020-06-03T11:36:16","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T18:36:16","slug":"teaching-that-a-sin-is-not-really-sin-is-a-heresy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/teaching-that-a-sin-is-not-really-sin-is-a-heresy\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching That a Sin Is Not Really Sin Is a Heresy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.orthodoxnet.com\/z-img-lib\/TheVoiceBlog\/Heresy_To-Teach-Sin_Not-Sin_01_1000x720.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2719\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Heresy_To-Teach-Sin_Not-Sin_01_800x576.jpg\" alt=\"Teaching That a Sin Is Not Really Sin Is a Heresy\" width=\"800\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Heresy_To-Teach-Sin_Not-Sin_01_800x576.jpg 800w, https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Heresy_To-Teach-Sin_Not-Sin_01_800x576-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Heresy_To-Teach-Sin_Not-Sin_01_800x576-768x553.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;Teaching that a sin is not really a sin is a heresy, and it is a heresy that closes off the possibility of repentance for those who believe it. You can\u2019t repent of a sin that you don\u2019t believe to be a sin.&#8221; ~ Fr. John Whiteford <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-524\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Line_Divider_01_265x15.gif\" alt=\"Line_Divider_01_265x15\" width=\"265\" height=\"15\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Personal sins are still sins, but sins that involve other people in your sin are worse &#8212; but heresy by far, much worse than either of those kinds of sins.<\/p>\n<p>Teaching that a sin is not really a sin is a heresy, and it is a heresy that closes off the possibility of repentance for those who believe it. You can&#8217;t repent of a sin that you don&#8217;t believe to be a sin.&#8221; ~ Fr. John Whiteford<\/p>\n<p>HT: <a href=\"http:\/\/fatherjohn.blogspot.com\/2018\/07\/response-to-giacomo-sanfilippo.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fr. John Whiteford blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Teaching that a sin is not really a sin is a heresy, and it is a heresy that closes off the possibility of repentance for those who believe it. You can\u2019t repent of a sin that you don\u2019t believe to be a sin.&#8221; ~ Fr. John Whiteford<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[25,10,29,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apologetics","category-christianity","category-moral-issues","category-orthodox-christianity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}