While the Bible only refers to specific acts by Biblical characters as "crying to Heaven for Vengeance", in Western Christianity, these references are expanded upon and treated as establishing a category of particularly serious sins. Along with the seven deadly sins and the eternal sins, the sins that cry to Heaven for Vengeance are the most serious transgressions against the Law of Christ.

“Behold, the wages you withheld from the workers who harvested your fields are crying aloud, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts” (James 5:4)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sins_that_cry_to_Heaven_for_Vengeance

The entire chapter is actually just warning rich people that their day will come eventually, but the specific part about wages is a sin seriously enough to warrant god’s wrath

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=James+5&version=NIV

  • Theblarglereflargle [any]
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    2 years ago

    It depends. The translation that was used by much of the west made sodium and gay relationships seem the cause but a closer I redo make it appear that it was murder and general shortness towards your fellow man.

    Ironically one of the few that keep close to the original translation is the King James Bible. And that’s most likely because James was gay or bi