Is Anger a Sin??? | Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P.

[@Ra20233]

I feel like Father Gregory was asked to be a DJ. That was oddly specific. 😂

[@dymphnatherese2595]

Fr. Gregory!!! Can you please do more videos like this with the struggles of other temperaments? I think it would be so helpful. Thank you for making this content and may God bless you always!

[@sherwindsouza6599]

Matt!!!! My man you wont believe I was asking God the same question today and here is Fr. Gregory on your channel with this vid... He sometimes answers so fast lol. Glory be to God!❤

[@Juliannarvivas]

As a choleric whenever I get mad I feel like everyone can die, including me. it’s so hard to moderate my anger, I’m striving to have these virtues.

[@Elizabeth-rh1hl]

Anger in the extreme usually is related to past or current trauma. You seem to have awareness that this is not healthy for you and you wish to change and heal. Professional counseling can help you and improve your quality of life as well as those around you. Best wishes and God bless.

[@catholicguy1073]

Yeah I get it tend to see “red” when I get really heated.

[@CJP.-pq3kr]

Sounds like the average girl I encounter in Miami 😂

[@Rugbylacroose4life]

God Bless you Fr! Very helpful!!

[@maicajapanmoments]

Thank you, this is a timely message for me.

[@alphacause]

Thank you, Father Pine, for this commentary on anger. I, for one, struggle with this emotion a lot. It is edifying to hear that anger is not always destructive to the person who has such an emotion. It is in how one channels that emotion that determines how morally virtuous or lacking in virtue that it is. I think there are many in the Christian community that look at anger as inherently sinful. These people, unfortunately, are not looking at this emotion from a Biblical perspective. Rather, they are allowing the ideas of spirituality derived from eastern mysticism and new age gurus to cloud their perspective. In such religious traditions, emotions are seen as an encumbrance to enlightenment, and detachment from feelings of anger or sadness is seen as a way to truly achieve transcendence. From a Christian vantage point, this is wrong, as every emotion is a gift of God. To numb ourselves to these gifts makes us less spiritual, not more.

[@CedanyTheAlaskan]

I have lived with a bad temper. Several people in my lineage have dealt with it. Thank you for this!

[@qboxer]

I appreciate this greatly. I have a temper which can flare up quite suddenly, and it sometimes manifests against my young son. I need to moderate this - but as you said, also acknowledge that there is some good from it, if clemency prevails.

[@michaelman957]

This is very helpful. Thank you, Father. God bless!

[@sunnyjohnson992]

Ephesians 4:26: “Be wrathful, but do not sin; do not let the sun set while you are still angry.”

[@rickmcentee9204]

Helpful. Appreciate it!

[@NostalGamation]

Is anger a sin? Well, there's this joke that says "If you ask yourself what would Jesus do? Remind yourself that making then lashing a whip & flipping tables are not out of the realm of possibility." 😂

[@giorgiaalexanderactingothe1892]

I wish I could feel my anger. It’s too big. There’s no place for it and it’s been repressed for so long. I feel it consuming me but I feel like I can’t even access it. I’m just numb.

[@carrlafleurfam]

That's were Fr. Boniface comes in. I feel like he's there to help heal the core wounds, and then Fr. Gregory has the post-op care/rehab instructions. Spiritual Surgical Care Team. If being on the receiving end of anger was part of our lives in some big way, we learn quickly that it's safer (literally & figuratively) to not engage. Then we adopt that with our own anger and swallow it down. It doesn't resolve until someone bigger and stronger than ourselves can show that strength and hold a space for us. Then we can be in that space and feel the anger that's been blocked, knowing that we won't be consumed and destroyed by it. It sounds so dramatic, but that's how deep it goes. Especially if you are sensitive to justice.

[@johnfisher247]

An emotion or feeling is not sinful. Uncontrolled inappropriate anger is. Anger that leads to virtuous action is good.

[@Robbie-si1hw]

Thank you Father and thank you Fr. Gregory for this. I felt angry at work this week and this will help my start the new week on a better foot.

[@DManCAWMaster]

As a more Stoic minded person the answer is yes

[@ricks4740]

Very humble of you

[@metorphoric]

No. The feeling isn’t a sin but it can lead to sinful actions.

[@marilynBgood]

I'm naturally passive but when I've had enough, I go off like a nuclear bomb... everything you dished out over time you get back all at once. Yikes.

[@thelivingfaithfulhomeschoo9906]

So what if the person you try talking to continuously puts the blame back on you, continuously. It’s exhausting. I’m trying to not ghost, but it’s HORRIBLY difficult.

[@461weavile]

A little more confidence will be required. Figure out the correct way to stand your ground when you are blamed wrongly. I could be something like asking for more clarification on what you should've done differently. Add to that that you should acknowledge when you are to blame before it's placed upon you, and denying false blame will become more substantial.

[@wehavetherecipes]

So I shouldn't hit myself in the chest with a rock like St Jerome?

[@jackieo8693]

Anger is one of the worst sins, especially since people justify their own anger as "righteous." Too many people think their anger is virtuous or slight.

[@user-zi5lx6lx5k]

WHEN WILL WE DOMINICANS RETURN TO THE DOMINICAN RITE?

[@Melanie-su3vw]

I got so angry I said I wanted to kill someone, many times. I think I need confession before Holy Communion

[@Elizabeth-rh1hl]

Very helpful.

[@nobodynobody4389]

Wrath is much more sublime and pleasurable anger is not as focused

[@lesley5914]

You have to stay angry to fight the devil. You need the light (the sun or Son) to fight and keep the fire of anger burning. I believe you have taken the Ephesians Bible verses out of context. This is spiritual warfare, not hippie Jesus. The correct and full Ephesians verses 4:26-27 are: BE ANGRY, AND yet DO NOT SIN; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and do not give the devil an opportunity.

[@JagadguruSvamiVegananda]

No.

[@ryanrayner8143]

Anger I believe is what I came here to conquer it has been my biggest struggle in life aside from alcoholism.

[@AA-gu4mw]

Forgiveness of those who hurt you will help begin the process of healing.

[@ShimobeSama]

I think the easiest basic answer is to ask if God ever got angry or expressed His wrath in the Bible, to which the obvious answer is yes. Since God can't sin, God's anger is obviously not a sin. Since we are made in His image and to carry out His will, it makes sense that there would be some degree of allowance to mimic that. The key is to not assume we know what God's will is, and to be much more cautious to use discernment and reference scripture, etc. to understand if our anger is directed in the right direction so we can adjust accordingly and/or what the proportionate amount of anger is necessary to motivate us towards producing a just and righteous outcome.