Around the year 600 Pope Gregory compiled a list of the seven deadly sins:
(Pride, covetousness, lust, anger, gluttony, envy, and sloth.)

As well as a list of the seven virtues:
(Faith, hope, charity, justice, prudence, temperance, and fortitude.)

The scripture would validate all of these concepts, but nowhere are they recorded in a list like this and nowhere in the Bible are they specifically referred to as the seven deadly sins or seven virtues.

They do not pre-date the Ten Commandments which were given at Mt. Sinai around 1450 B.C. It is probably true that they were used extensively to teach principles from God’s Word, particularly in the centuries before the invention of the printing press when the Bible was not available for the common man to read and study.

Despite all of this, most of the common world when referred to the “seven deadly sins/seven virtues” thinks of a divinely inspired law that states this. That is a misleading lie that was started by Pope Gregory and thus embraced by the Catholic church throughout history stating that it was “divinely inspired.”

See I really love the Catholic practice of faith and how they keep services sacred and spiritual.. but it’s things like this, the doctrines made by the “higher-ups” that really piss me off and push me away from Catholicism. If you claim to believe that every word in the bible is divinely inspired, then you’ll also believe that anything outside of the bible should be taken with a grain of salt. But they mix the truth with lies and confuse their followers, thus setting apart different camps, (i.e. denominations); rather than creating unity within the Christendom in general around the world.. I thought Christianity, (Christendom as a whole), was to promote peace and unity based on systematic theology from the bible? I really wish there were some Catholics on this board.

i never thought the 7 sins were from the Bible. besides, what's the damage if somebody did?

i don't recall the catholic church, nor gregory, ever making claim that they were given by God either. so the only person that would misinterpret that would be someone who's never read the Bible in the first place. and those people **** up a lot worse things about God then the orgin of the 7 sins.