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To: BlackElk
What I am talking about is God. Not federal law or your own conscious.

man may find some pleasure in ranking sins, all sins are equal before God and have been forgiven through the work of Jesus. Not a subset of sins, all sins.

88 posted on 04/25/2002 10:58:30 AM PDT by smith288
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To: smith288
all sins are equal before God...

Only in the sense that every sin is judged as such and any sin merits damnation. But consider,

But if that servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken; the lord of that servant shall come in a day when he expecteth not, and in an hour when he knoweth not, and shall cut him asunder, and appoint his portion with the unfaithful. And that servant, who knew his lord’s will, and made not ready, nor did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes; but he that knew not, and did things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. And to whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required: and to whom they commit much, of him will they ask the more. (Luke 12:45-48 ASV)

...and have been forgiven through the work of Jesus.

Better, all sin "can be" forgiven through the work of Jesus (except "blasphemy against the Holy Spirit"). Jesus said that many people would end up in hell. How would this be, if their sins had all been forgiven? Did all these "blaspheme" against the Holy Spirit? Or was it that the work of Jesus did not apply to their sins because of their unbelief? (I lean towards the latter explanation.)

128 posted on 04/25/2002 11:54:28 AM PDT by Kyrie
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