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Sin is sin Any deviation from Gods perfect will and law is enough to bring eternal death no matter how small. I don’t call the slightest sin that can do that any less serious than murder or blasphemy The penalty is the same Eternal death and separation from God and an eternity in hell

In one sense all sin is sin as even one sin renders one to be law breaker only fit for Hell-fire. Thus as regards the effect of sin in receiving damnation then all sin is the same. All sin is a crime serious enough to damn one to Hell.

But in the sense of the degree of the crime and punishment there is both a difference relative to the sin and the degree of guilt and the sentence.

And let me say that making a difference in the degree of wickedness and their punishment does not sanction what Caths unScripturally do with such, and who usually cannot Scripturally make much of a case for a difference in the degree of sins.

The scribes and Pharisees were warned that they would receive the greater damnation, (Matthew 23:14) and the cities which were shown more light and grace, which should have been a blessing by positively responding to it, left them more damnable than Sodom due to their impenitence. (Lk. 10:8-13)

And thus, while all sinners are in Hell now, they await their sentencing in great white throne judgment for punishment in the Lake of fire, "according to their works, " (Rv. 20:11-15) not just one sin but many, and accordant with their degree of accountability. Thus in degree of punishment all sin is not the same.

We can also see a difference in sins according to the degree of wickedness.

God never said the the sin of Moses in being provoked by the whining faithless Israelites was as the sin of Judas, but due to the level of accountability relative to the great light and grace Moses realized then he was excluded from entering the Promised land though less holy Israelites would. Yet later Moses is one of the two who met with the Lord in the land of Israel, if in a type of vision.

There are sins of ignorance, then there are presumptuous sins which can lead to "the great transgression," (Psalms 19:13) which i think refers to apostasy. Which can correspond to the sin of death.

The Scriptures make a difference btwn capital sins and those of others as seen by their penalty. The sin of Sodom and Gomorrah was "very grievous," (Genesis 18:20), (Gn. 18) including not just heterosexual fornication but they, "going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire." (Jude 1:7)

Which was product of idolatry, not simply a short temper, and the former can be considered the mother of many sins, as out of it flows most others, as Rm. 1 and its progression shows. Souls knew God in a basic sense, but "become vain in their imaginations and their foolish heart was darkened," and thus man made God into an image appealing to their carnal hearts. > "Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves..." (Romans 1:24)

Which led to more sins:

And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, (Romans 1:28-29)

Thus idolatry can be seen as a more grievous sin than lying out of weakness as Abraham did, yet since even keeping the whole law, and yet offending in one point renders one a transgressor of the law just as if he had committed all of them . (James 2:10) as regards being a guilty sinner in need of salvation, thus all must cast all their faith upon the risen Lord Jesus, sent by the Father, to save them on His merit.