Being nosey, or prying, is a desire to know other people’s secrets and personal affairs, whether it is through reading about them, or hearing or speaking about them, directly or indirectly. Prying is something wrong, both from the spiritual and from the social point of view. People are supposed to respect other people’s secret and …
You are supposed to pay tithes irrespective of your financial situation. Here I would like to put before you some important observations which are: 1. Whoever pays his tithes when he himself is in need, will have a greater reward from God. Because by doing so he is putting others before himself, unlike the person …
Envy, as a feeling, exists. We know, for example, that Cain envied his brother Abel, that Joseph the Righteous was envied by his brothers, and that the Lord Jesus Christ was handed over to death by the Jewish priests owing to their envy of Him. At the end of the prayer of thanksgiving we say: …
Not every bad thought which goes round in your mind is to be considered a sin, for there is a difference between being under attack by thoughts and falling into sin through thoughts: Being under attack by thoughts is when a bad thought harasses you, but you do not give in to it, but rather …
Those addressing these questions concentrate on Christ’s divinity and forget His humanity! He is not only God, but He also took on Him a human nature like ours; a complete human nature. Hence it is written that He shared with us everything except sin (Heb 2:17) and unless He had taken our nature, He would …
