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1 posted on 09/06/2014 10:54:08 AM PDT by HarleyD
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On Lethargy
Catholic Word of the Day: DEADLY SINS, 06-17-14
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The Seven Deadly Sins: Lust [Ecumenical]
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The Deadliest of the Deadlies, Today
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Envy A Capital Sin [Ecumenical]
Understanding God's Anger: Compline, Anger, and God
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Prayer to be Freed of the Seven Deadly Sins
The Seven Deadly Sins Revisited: Greed
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The Virtue-Driven Life
The Virtues (counteracting the REAL Seven Deadly Sins)
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The Anatomy of Envy

2 posted on 09/06/2014 10:59:31 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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Well yes.
At least I would believe that is how God would look at it. Nothing in the Word indicates your chances of salvation are graded on which sins you partake in, or how often, etc. We as human beings may look at then differently but in the end it does not matter how we look at them but only how God looks at them.


4 posted on 09/06/2014 11:06:36 AM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat.)
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Christians have responded that there are too many societal sins to justify a focus on fighting abortion.

If rending unborn babies limb-from-limb because they're inconvenient is not wrong, then nothing is wrong.

5 posted on 09/06/2014 11:18:20 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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I find it hard to believe that stealing a person's life savings is the same as taking a paper clip from work.
Both are stealing, but the effects are very different.
By that example alone, I believe some sins are definitely worse than others.
Some have serious consequences, some have none.
Some sins takes a very depraved person to commit, others are every day events.

6 posted on 09/06/2014 11:18:25 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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But each of us is called to tackle different problems. Some are working in Prison Fellowship programs; some are working in Hands of Hope clinics; others are working in Gospel Rescue Missions, etc.


9 posted on 09/06/2014 11:25:10 AM PDT by DLfromthedesert (She accomplished nothing: should have stayed at home and baked cookies)
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Because not all sins are equal.

'Nuff said.

10 posted on 09/06/2014 11:33:28 AM PDT by cloudmountain
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As bad as it was to incarcerate American citizens simply becuase of their race during WW 2, it would be an egregious error to say that it was morally the same as the Holocaust. No not all sins are equal, not even close.


11 posted on 09/06/2014 11:42:27 AM PDT by HerrBlucher (Praise to the Lord the Almighty the King of Creation)
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No, all sin is not equal. So sayeth the Apostle John.

1 John 5:16-17 NIV

If you see any brother or sister commit a sin that does not lead to death, you should pray and God will give them life. I refer to those whose sin does not lead to death. There is a sin that leads to death. I am not saying that you should pray about that. All wrongdoing is sin, and there is sin that does not lead to death.


16 posted on 09/06/2014 1:46:43 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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“Furthermore, when individuals sinned there were different sacrifices prescribed for each situation and different punishments required for certain sins. For example, a thief paid restitution but those who committed adultery or premeditated murder were put to death (Exodus 22, Leviticus 1-6, 16-17, 20). Thus, God provided a system of jurisprudence that reflected His will in taking all sin seriously but also showed that some were worse than others.”

No. A thief can provide restitution and make the victim whole again. Those who committed adultery or premeditated murder can not make the victim whole. We are under Grace in NT times, not law. We all DESERVE death for our sins.


18 posted on 09/06/2014 2:24:51 PM PDT by Paperpusher
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Treat them like they are, and you won't have a problem.

Continue to push boundaries and you'll only get farther from Christ.

23 posted on 09/06/2014 3:26:11 PM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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Judging the severity of sin can only lead to self justification and is a waste of life energy.
25 posted on 09/06/2014 3:32:05 PM PDT by right way right (America has embraced the suck of Freedumb.)
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Is murder equivalent to, say, gluttony? There is your answer.


27 posted on 09/06/2014 4:15:05 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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All Sin is NOT Equal
29 posted on 09/06/2014 7:08:59 PM PDT by nonsporting
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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.


31 posted on 09/06/2014 10:13:43 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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1 John 5:16-17

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.

33 posted on 09/07/2014 9:18:18 PM PDT by Gluteus Maximus
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