[quote=@Efficacy] Refusing to argue with the first and second, since I'd really rather not: a sin you "can't help" is still a sin, and there's no excuse other than ignorance. Chronic laziness is still wrong, because God warns against laziness. But God helps us to fight against inherent tendencies in the very same way he helps us to fight against willing sin, because sin itself is an inherent tendency. Sin itself is chronic. That's why I sent those devotions: because they provided biblical advice about fighting the sin of laziness that was worth praying about and taking to heart. [/quote] Hey, the writers were dumb. Doesn't say anything about potentially passages. Sloth is a deadly sin. I'm not gonna argue that. But they didn't give biblical advice, they gave speculatory and personal experience advice. If yhvh warns against laziness, then providing those passages would've been biblical advice. They didn't really do that. They also ignored context of the quotes, hence my first point. "a sin you "can't help" is still a sin, and there's no excuse other than ignorance." Noooooo. Wrong. There is a huge difference in how they have to be handled. Example: You can't help getting aroused at the sight of what you're attracted to. You can help whether or not you seek that out. You can't say "oh just don't seek it out" when the problem is that the sight is constantly there and claim that it's still applicable and that there's no difference.