Posted on 09/06/2014 10:54:08 AM PDT by HarleyD
And yet, God really doesn’t care, he hates ALL sin and will accept none of it no matter how it is classified.
You meant to say, "The midwives lie was far less worst than killing innocent children," but i would say it was not even a sin at all, as saving innocent lives fulfils the intent of the law.
Continue to push boundaries and you'll only get farther from Christ.
But cruelty is nothing more than courageous evil. There is a hidden point here: most people refrain from evil, not because they are inherently ethical and want to refrain from evil, but because they are afraid of the consequences--perhaps punishment, perhaps shame, perhaps loss of life or health or money or friends or family.
And different degrees of reward in Heaven...
Is murder equivalent to, say, gluttony? There is your answer.
It is true that the only thing holding many people back is the consequences (to them) of crime. After all that is why we have laws, a police force, judges, prisons etc. But I think most people, at least those people I know, do not commit crime because they think it is simply wrong and they could not live with themselves it they did such acts. I know I couldn’t even if I knew I could get away with it in this life and the next.
equal. depends on what aspect of the sin you’re talking about.
equal in that all separate us from God? yes.
equal in that any sin, to us big or small, condemns us to be separated from God for eternity becaue God will not stand the presence of sin around Him? yes.
equal in the sense that no matter how small, no person can personally save themselves and get themselves right with God, they must ask for God to forgice them? yes.
equal in the sense of eternal conequences, see above. yes
equal in the sense of temporal consequences? no.
Heavenly Father, please grant me patience and love for people who sins are different than mine...
amen..
:)
If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it. 17 All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.
Not all sins are "sins unto death" - i.e. mortal sins. Some are lesser. These sins "not unto death" are called venial sins.
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