Is Inciting fear in a dog considered animal abuse / mortal sin? - Page 2

TheOne33 · #16 Aug 10, '12, 6:33 am

Thanks for the help, just one more question: Should I confess it ?

Corso · #17 Aug 10, '12, 6:48 am

I don't think it would hurt to confess it, if it's on your heart.

No one should ever have to hit an animal to train it, it's not the dogs fault for begging it's yours for not training it properly, you should smack yourself each time for creating the problem. (This is towards anyone hitting an animal)
Sorry but I just can't sympathize with anyone hitting and animal because of bad behavior when it is the owners job to train them properly, and when not done because we are to lazy to follow through with training, or train at all, the animals get beat, abused etc.

And as someone else mentioned it could only be a matter of time until someone raises there hand in a non violent way, to even pet the dog, and the dog out of the fear created by being hit snaps back, and who would pay for that? Besides the person, Most likely the dog with it's life because of something through no fault of it's own.

TheOne33 · #18 Aug 10, '12, 6:59 am

That's probably what I'll do, but I still have lots more situations like this that happened a while back that I'm feeling guilty about. Every time I confess something like this, another one appears in it's place. It's an endless guilt cycle.

Corso · #19 Aug 10, '12, 7:12 am

I think a deep repentance is in need,

I have a done a lot of bad things especially when I fell away from my faith for years, and my life went down the tubes so far that I didn't even really believe anymore.

It came to a point where I was asking God, hey if you are there just please give me some signs as I always kept some thought in the back of my mind, and to my amazement, little things started happening here and there. signs I couldn't refute as coincidences anymore.

At that point I broke down one day and had a serious one on one with him and asked him for forgiveness for everything I have done, and thanked him for showing me that he is there.
I have never felt such a moment in my life as complete as that, from there I knew I was forgiven for all the things I have done, I just felt so different in thought, all the negativity was gone. truely amazing experience.
Do I still think about some of those things? Sure I do, but at this point I know I am forgiven for it and that I am thankful to God for never failing me when I doubted him the most. And I believe he knew I would fall away and knew the things I would do and knew exactly when I would call upon him. I can't thank him enogh for saving me. I still get tearied eyed speaking or typing this.

TheOne33 · #20 Aug 10, '12, 8:17 am

You make it sound easy. While it may have been easier for you, it's not for me. I supposedly suffer from Scrupulosity.

Della · #21 Aug 10, '12, 8:35 am

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Originally Posted by TheOne33

You make it sound easy. While it may have been easier for you, it's not for me. I supposedly suffer from Scrupulosity.

Scrupulosity comes from feeling that we ought not to fail. But we do fail. All of us. So, what do we do? We admit we fail--again and again, but we do not punish ourselves for it. Neither should we be surprised that we fail. We are going to fail because we are fallen creatures. So, do we despair? No, we give it to God, in confession if necessary, and we go on, trusting that God understands our weakness and loves us as though we were perfect. So, stop trying to be perfect in the sense of never failing, but rather be perfected in love--of God and of others, and scrupulosity will disappear.

Corso · #22 Aug 10, '12, 10:14 am

Definitley not easy, just have to put that stuff in his hands.