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

  • KiaKaha [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Yeah but you can interpret that away:

    Many churches, particularly ones considered progressive, understand the "sin of Sodom" to be oppression of the poor, in light of Ezekiel 16:49–50 ("This was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy").[12][13]

    It makes more sense, since it gives all these sins a common thread of oppression of the weak, rather than three sins about oppression, and one sin about doing butt stuff.