You've never lusted? You've never fantasized? Remember even Jimmy Carter admitted to Playboy magazine in that famous interview (which I actually read and for which I claimed I was buying the mag --- yeah right) that he had "lusted in his heart many times..." If you think it, you've done it in the Lord's eyes. There is no sliding scale on sin. No such thing as big or little sins. That little white lie is just as bad as 1st degree murder. That's what I meant. You don't sound that combative, but you do sound like you're spinning lightly into hyperbole to make the point.
Right on the mark!
It doesn’t seem some understand that we have all sinned. That if it were not for the GRACE of God and The Death of his Son and resurrection. We are all lost.
Jesus Christ spoke to a man, in the new testament, who murdered some of HIS people. Caused the man to go blind until he met someone that could explain and then be healed.
THAT was Saul...
Newt is not a murderer...
But he is a sinner that gave his heart to God and apologized. Now, THAT IS ALL GOD requires of us.
Saul became Paul and was a huge spokesman for the gentile world which is me.
Newt can and will be used by God as God sees fit.
IF God can forgive, so can I.