Fellas, redpill me on how despair is bad? Genuine question.
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Replying to @giantgio
"If [the disease of sin] is natural, then it cannot be cured. Thus it would remain always, no matter how hard you worked to rid yourself of it. If you accept this thought, you will lose heart, and say to yourself: this is how it is. For this is that woeful despair, which, once it
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has been introduced into people, they have given themselves over to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness (Ephesians 4: 19)." They often talk about the sin of despair in the context of believing your sins will be forgiven. Sometimes people think their sins are so great, or
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that they struggle with them so much, they have no hope of redemption. It's forgetting that mercy is mercy, that grace is grace. Maybe despair is a kind of egoism.
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Also: "But believers must not be despondent, for through sorrows they receive the right of sonship, without which is impossible to enter the Kingdom of Heaven." St. Barsanuphius of Optina
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My buddy @Daring_Danny also says the same, that despair is shudder egoism, I think it would entail that your individual despairing elevates you above the Divine in a way, that you are admitting "only I carry this despair and no one, not even God can cure the sins of this world".
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