Greed
Hi everyone hope everything is going well with you all, Todays painting is another one of The Seven Deadly Sins and its name is ( Greed) and its an excessive desire to possess wealth or goods;Greed (Latin, avaritia), also known as avarice or covetousness, is, like lust and gluttony, a sin of excess. However, greed (as seen by the church) is applied to a very excessive or rapacious desire and pursuit of wealth, status, and power. St. Thomas Aquinas wrote that greed was "a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things." In Dante's Purgatory, the penitents were bound and laid face down on the ground for having concentrated too much on earthly thoughts. some people think greed is good ,that its a necessary evil not only to get along in day to day activities but good in business also,I think there is 4 stages of greed even though I painted this person with a smile on their face that is because they are in the first stage of greed just thinking about what they are going to do for their own gain, but this smile shall soon turn around into a frown and a fiery torment because I have never meet a truly happy greedy person,I think because once and if they get what they wanted thru greed their conscience will tell them what they did was evil and who wants to try and live with that on their head, not me, don't let greed come into your life or you will soon no longer have a smile or true friends ,and that my friends sounds like Hell on earth, take care steve.
Greed
Hi everyone hope everything is going well with you all, Todays painting is another one of The Seven Deadly Sins and its name is ( Greed) and its an excessive desire to possess wealth or goods;Greed (Latin, avaritia), also known as avarice or covetousness, is, like lust and gluttony, a sin of excess. However, greed (as seen by the church) is applied to a very excessive or rapacious desire and pursuit of wealth, status, and power. St. Thomas Aquinas wrote that greed was "a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things." In Dante's Purgatory, the penitents were bound and laid face down on the ground for having concentrated too much on earthly thoughts. some people think greed is good ,that its a necessary evil not only to get along in day to day activities but good in business also,I think there is 4 stages of greed even though I painted this person with a smile on their face that is because they are in the first stage of greed just thinking about what they are going to do for their own gain, but this smile shall soon turn around into a frown and a fiery torment because I have never meet a truly happy greedy person,I think because once and if they get what they wanted thru greed their conscience will tell them what they did was evil and who wants to try and live with that on their head, not me, don't let greed come into your life or you will soon no longer have a smile or true friends ,and that my friends sounds like Hell on earth, take care steve.