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| Are All Sins Equal
in the Eyes of God? |
All my life I have
heard Christians saying that all sins are equal in the eyes of God, I
have heard this from Pastors, Sunday School Teachers, and
Layman. All sins are equal in ability to keep someone from
entering Heaven, but they all have different motives
(stealing because you are hungry is different then stealing
because it is fun), they very in impact,
( stealing a piece of candy may go unnoticed, killing a doctor
who is working on a cure for cancer can be devastating to the whole
planet.) and degree
Killing is worse then stealing.
and in degree of accountability
Someone who is mentally impaired should not get the same amount of
blame as someone who graduates at the top of their class.
Saying that all sins are equal is the equivalent of saying a child that
steals a cookie before dinner,
is just as evil as a person who performs a random shooting.
When Christians say that all sins are
equal even though some sins go unnoticed by everyone but God and the
offender, and other sins devistate comunities, it makes it sound as if
God doesn't care about how much pain is caused by sins like murder to
those who love the victim. The God I know cares when a mother is
weeping over a lost child.
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Then began
he to
upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because
they repented not: 21
Woe
unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works,
which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would
have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. 22 But I say unto you, It
shall be more
tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for
you. 23 And thou,
Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to
hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been
done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. 24 But I say unto you,
That it
shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment,
than for thee.
According to
this passage the people in Chorazin, and Bethsaida will suffer
more then the people of Sodom because if Sodom had seen the things
Jesus had been doing they would have repented. This passage says
that not only will some people suffer more in hell than others, it also
implies that people who didn't know about Jesus would not be as
accountable as the people who actually had an open opportunity to
accept Jesus and didn't.
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Luke
20:45-47
Then
in the audience of all the
people he said unto his disciples, 46 Beware of the scribes, which desire to
walk in long robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the highest
seats in the synagogues, and the chief rooms at feasts; 47 Which devour widows' houses,
and for a shew make long prayers: the same shall receive greater
damnation.
Here again the
people
who should know better then to do bad things get greater
punishment then the people who didn't know as much.
It also implies
that some "followers of God" are not really following God they just
claim to because it gives them power.
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John 19:10 -11
Then saith
Pilate unto him, Speakest thou not unto me? knowest thou not
that I have power to crucify thee, and have power to release thee?
Jesus answered, Thou couldest have no power at all against me,
except it were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered me
unto thee hath the
greater sin.
This verse says
that Judas commited had a bigger sin than Pilate had. |
In Exodus 1:15-20 the midwives of
Egypt
are told to kill all of the boy babies born to the Jews. The midwives
did not listen to the Pharaoh, instead they lied to the Pharaoh. Killing is a sin, but so is lying. If
all sins were equal the midwives would be just as bad in God's
eyes as they would have been if they had just killed the babies,
but that isn't what the Bible says happened , the Bible said that God
was kind to the midwives and rewarded them with houses (which may
be translated to families) of thier own.
If lying is just as bad as murder why in the world would God reward
they lying midwives? I don't believe he would have. |
Revelation 20:12-13
And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the
throne, and books were opened; and another book was opened, which
is
the book of life; and the dead were judged from the things which
were written in the
books, according
to their deeds. |
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