[Tax-chick]

It is one thing to be a sinner. It is another to brazenly build your life on sin.

That is something I have been thinking about recently, after reading a book about the abandoned wife and children of the poet Lord Byron.

He was a person entirely devoted to vice, wreaking havoc on the lives of all around him, leading many to destruction. However, both in his lifetime and since, biographers have brushed this off with, "Well, his wife wasn't perfect, either."

There is a category difference between a person who makes mistakes (errors in judgment, honestly believes some things that turn out to be wrong); and a person who sins, as everyone including the greatest saints does; and a person who, as you so well put it, "brazenly builds your life on sin."

We seem to have lost this distinction in our drive for moral equivalency, "Well, everyone makes mistakes ...," "Nobody's perfect," etc.

[Mrs. Don-o]

I think you’re quite right. We suspend judgment, not because we are merciful, but because we have totally lost a sense of moral proportion.

[PeterPrinciple]

It is one thing to be a sinner. It is another to brazenly build your life on sin.
That is something I have been thinking about recently, after reading a book about the abandoned wife and children of the poet Lord Byron.

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I had a discussion with a young pastor from a conservative denomination. I told him a story of another pastor dressing up in women’s clothes for a Sunday evening outreach (Methodist and there is more to the story) This young pastor absolutely would not say it was wrong or a sin. But he did say it was bad judgment and he wouldn’t do it. But as much as I pressed in, he would not use the word WRONG, let alone the word SIN.

I asked for any scenario in which a pastor dressing up in women’s clothes would honor God. He actually said to me, “if it brings a few people into the church...........”

There is no repentance from bad judgment..............

The point being that the younger generation even in our churches has been infected by the world. I would encourage others to have conversations bout what is right and wrong, it might be surprising.