Indulgence vs Obsession - What's the difference?
indulgence | obsession |
the act of indulging
* Hammond
tolerance
catering to someone's every desire
something in which someone indulges
An indulgent act; favour granted; gratification.
* Rogers
(Roman Catholicism) A pardon or release from the expectation of punishment in purgatory, after the sinner has been granted absolution.
* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 555:
(Roman Catholic Church ) to provide with an indulgence
A compulsive or irrational preoccupation.
An unhealthy fixation.
Influence or control by evil spirits without possession.
* 1973 , Jessie Penn-Lewis, Evan Roberts, War on the Saints , ISBN 0913926043.
* 1999 , Mary E. McDonough, God's Plan of Redemption , page 85, ISBN 0736307184.
* 2007 , James E. Padgett, The Teachings of Jesus , page 100, ISBN 1430303913.
As nouns the difference between indulgence and obsession
is that indulgence is the act of indulging while obsession is a compulsive or irrational preoccupation.As a verb indulgence
is (Roman Catholic Church) to provide with an indulgence.indulgence
English
Noun
(en noun)- They err, that through indulgence to others, or fondness to any sin in themselves, substitute for repentance anything less.
- If all these gracious indulgences are without any effect on us, we must perish in our own folly.
- To understand how indulgences were intended to work depends on linking together a number of assumptions about sin and the afterlife, each of which individually makes considerable sense.
Verb
(indulgenc)obsession
English
Noun
- if an evil spirit counterfeits the presence of God, and comes upon'' the man as an influence only, it may be described as obsession ; but when a footing is gained ''in him, it is "possession," because the obsessing spirits have gained access, and possess the ground they hold, up to the extent of the ground given.
- They should see that a perception of their identification with the Victor of Calvary is absolutely necessary if they are to constantly and victoriously resist the obsession of evil spirits.
- It is true, that by the workings of the law of attraction, and the susceptibility of mortals to the influence of spirit powers, mortals may become obsessed by the spirits of evil—that is evil spirits of men who once lived on earth—and this obsession may become so complete and powerful that the living mortal may lose all power to resist this influence of the evil spirits...