I’ve probably told this story before, but I was once in a conversation with my former pastor about late term abortionist \ ELCA usher. I mentioned there was something wrong that he was comfortable going to church and that the church was comfortable with him going there. Unfortunately, I just broke the greatest sin...judging.
My pastor told me “abortion is a bad sin, but so is lusting” (I wondered if he saw me checking out the hot babe that just entered the restaurant).
That made start to wonder if the belief that all sins are equal is another form of moral relativism and this belief leads to an abortion culture or a holocaust culture like that in Germany.
Is judging a sin? Did Jesus not judge? Did the prophets not judge? Did the Disciples not judge? Does God not judge? Righteous judging is not a sin. Unrighteous judging is a sin.
"Judge not, lest ye be judged" does NOT say don't judge! But if you do judge, do so judiciously.
You can’t evaluate the assertion fairly until you have also evaluated the context.
Also please don’t twist the term “relativism.”
It is “relativism” to say that it’s better to lust than have an abortion, therefore I will give a free rein to lusting while execrating abortion and I have therefore made a wonderful tradeoff.
It is not “relativism” to point out (biblically) that all sins deal death to the soul of the sinner, which goes deeper than killing a body. As long as one does not go on to say that means it is okay to kill a body (because that’s a sin anyhow and one would have vitiated one’s own point).
I heard a pastor (Voddie Baucham Jr.) preach on the false idea that all sins are equal.
All sins separate us from God-Amen!! But all sins are not equal. Why else did God give us Leviticus and Dueteronomy?
You are correct in one of the dangers of believing that, a type of relativism that excuses the murder of babies because hey, we all sin.