{"id":18211,"date":"2017-01-04T01:01:41","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T06:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/?p=18211"},"modified":"2016-11-30T07:46:34","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T12:46:34","slug":"how-does-someone-turn-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/2017\/01\/04\/how-does-someone-turn-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"How Does Someone Turn Bad?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Nobody is born bad<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_29246\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-29246 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/img.cancaonova.com\/cnimages\/especiais\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2016\/08\/O-cristao-ama-seus-inimigos-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"O cristao ama seus inimigos\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\" lang=\"en\">Credits: File\/New Song<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span lang=\"en\"><em>&#8220;In this way, are we such a\u00a0cloud of witnesses, let us cast off \u00a0from us the chains of sin&#8221;<\/em> <\/span><span lang=\"en\">(Hb 12, 1a). <\/span><span lang=\"en\"><strong>The word of God is showing us that sin is not just an act, because if repeated, it envelopes us and ties us up in chains.<\/strong><\/span> \u0093<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\"><em>&#8220;Run with perseverance to the proposed combat\u00a0, keeping eyes focused on\u00a0the author and finisher of our faith, Jesus&#8221;<\/em>(Hb 12, 1b). <\/span><span lang=\"en\">However, we&#8217;re forgetting this entirely.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">For many, there no longer exists the struggle against sin,\u00a0<strong>there is an inclination to it, and there are many opportunities to commit it.<\/strong> <\/span><span lang=\"en\">Often, when there is a friend that leads us to do what is wrong, we, without striving, entered into sin: Let&#8217;s go &#8220;drinking&#8221; it, in tying it to the senses, feelings and we end up trapped by it [sin], because it is much more than a disease.<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">Sin wants us to lead many to enter the drug addictions, alcoholism, of lies, corruption, hypocrisy, arrogance, evil and we can&#8217;t get out.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">We were raised in the right and the good, people are born good, but lean to small sins, then the most serious, finally becoming bad, evil. <\/span><span lang=\"en\"><strong>People become bad, because being tied to\u00a0sin, are taken in \u00a0evil and are unable to extricate themselves<\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">Leave sin, having the grace of conversion is a God thing. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">Only He can convert us.<\/span><span lang=\"en\">Conversion is changing direction, is to &#8220;turn around&#8221; and live the opposite way. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">If you have not yet had the grace of conversion, by Jesus, the Savior, is the blood and the cross from him; we&#8217;re all ripped out of this situation of sin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"en\">The initial conversion is only by God, by the intervention of Jesus. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">You need to ask for it, take it and accept it.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">And even after the grace of conversion, because of original sin and the weight that it will bring in our lives, we need to continue the fight. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">Fight with perseverance in fighting before\u00a0us with our eyes fixed on Jesus, in us, who starts and completes the work of faith. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">I know you want that for your life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">I don&#8217;t know what kind of sin you are entangled in, but today is the day to put it on the altar, the sacrifice of Jesus. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">Even if you&#8217;re struggling, but still fail to bounce back from your\u00a0sin, do as Jesus told Jairo: <em>&#8220;be not afraid, only believe&#8221;<\/em>. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">The Lord is on your side, He did not abandon you and he tells you. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">&#8220;Fear not, believe only because I&#8217;m by your side. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">Put your eyes fixed on me and walk. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">I want to give you a complete conversion &#8220;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Your brother,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Monsignor Jonas Abib<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/padrejonas.cancaonova.com\/informativos\/artigos\/como-alguem-se-torna-ruim\/\">Portuguese version<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobody is born bad &nbsp; &nbsp; Credits: File\/New Song &#8220;In this way, are we such a\u00a0cloud of witnesses, let us cast off \u00a0from us the chains of sin&#8221; (Hb 12, 1a). 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