All sin is equally sinful?

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I'm a bit confused by this statement.
Two fairly known sins: stealing and murder.
Stealing is clearly a lesser offense than murder, as murder ends the life of one.

I am a fairly new Christian so sorry about my lack of knowledge of the Bible and it's teachings, still learning xD
 
Although Jesus said that lust and adultery are both sins, that does not mean they are equal. It is much worse to actually murder a person than it is to simply hate a person, even though they are both sins in God’s sight. There are degrees to sin. Some sins are worse than others. At the same time, in regard to both eternal consequences and salvation, all sins are the same. Every sin will lead to eternal condemnation (Romans 6:23). All sin, no matter how “small,” is against an infinite and eternal God, and is therefore worthy of an infinite and eternal penalty. Further, there is no sin too “big” that God cannot forgive it. Jesus died to pay the penalty for sin (1 John 2:2). Jesus died for all of our sins (2 Corinthians 5:21). Are all sins equal to God? Yes and no. In severity? No. In penalty? Yes. In forgivability? Yes.


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1 Corinthians 6:13-20

Now the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. And God both raised up the Lord and will also raise us up by His power.
Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a harlot? Certainly not! Or do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For “the two,” He says, “shall become one flesh.” But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.
Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

I don't personally know the effects of sex before marriage on my Christian walk, and God willing I hope and pray never to find out. Whilst it can be forgiven, it's really not worth sabotaging your reward in heaven, and earthly walk with God
 
Friend no matter what sin you have committed or how many sin you have committed you are still no diff from a man who murdered and another who stole for sin is bad itself.

I think also back then OT if the child disrespects the parents then they would be stoned to death! Yikes!
Good thing that change because I would have been dead a long time ago.......
 
All sins are equal in the eyes of God, but even after repentance certain sins can still have a lasting effect in your life as well as others. For instance if you steal a credit card and buy a bunch of junk, that effects someone elses life. They have to go thru the motions of getting reimbursed from their bank and legal stuff trying to track down the person that stole it and so on and so forth. If you murder someone, that person is gone forever, it effects their friends and family and you too. For the rest of your life you will always remember that took away another life and have changed their family dynamics forever. That would be tough to live with. Many who have had pre marital sex or estra marital affairs have gotten STD's, some incurable.

So yes, God will forgive us for the sin, but we may have to live with some harsh consequences even though we are forgiven.
 
John 19 said:
Jesus Sentenced to Be Crucified


1 Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. 2 The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head. They clothed him in a purple robe 3 and went up to him again and again, saying, “Hail, king of the Jews!” And they slapped him in the face.

4 Once more Pilate came out and said to the Jews gathered there, “Look, I am bringing him out to you to let you know that I find no basis for a charge against him.” 5 When Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, Pilate said to them, “Here is the man!”
6 As soon as the chief priests and their officials saw him, they shouted, “Crucify! Crucify!”
But Pilate answered, “You take him and crucify him. As for me, I find no basis for a charge against him.”
7 The Jewish leaders insisted, “We have a law, and according to that law he must die, because he claimed to be the Son of God.”
8 When Pilate heard this, he was even more afraid, 9 and he went back inside the palace. “Where do you come from?” he asked Jesus, but Jesus gave him no answer. 10 “Do you refuse to speak to me?” Pilate said. “Don’t you realize I have power either to free you or to crucify you?”
11 Jesus answered, “You would have no power over me if it were not given to you from above. Therefore the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin.”
12 From then on, Pilate tried to set Jesus free, but the Jewish leaders kept shouting, “If you let this man go, you are no friend of Caesar. Anyone who claims to be a king opposes Caesar.”
13 When Pilate heard this, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judge’s seat at a place known as the Stone Pavement (which in Aramaic is Gabbatha). 14 It was the day of Preparation of the Passover; it was about noon.
“Here is your king,” Pilate said to the Jews.
15 But they shouted, “Take him away! Take him away! Crucify him!”
“Shall I crucify your king?” Pilate asked.
“We have no king but Caesar,” the chief priests answered. 16 Finally Pilate handed him over to them to be crucified.
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Luke 12 said:
35 “Be dressed ready for service and keep your lamps burning, 36 like servants waiting for their master to return from a wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him. 37 It will be good for those servants whose master finds them watching when he comes. Truly I tell you, he will dress himself to serve, will have them recline at the table and will come and wait on them. 38 It will be good for those servants whose master finds them ready, even if he comes in the middle of the night or toward daybreak. 39 But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into. 40 You also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.”

41 Peter asked, “Lord, are you telling this parable to us, or to everyone?”
42 The Lord answered, “Who then is the faithful and wise manager, whom the master puts in charge of his servants to give them their food allowance at the proper time? 43 It will be good for that servant whom the master finds doing so when he returns. 44 Truly I tell you, he will put him in charge of all his possessions. 45 But suppose the servant says to himself, ‘My master is taking a long time in coming,’ and he then begins to beat the other servants, both men and women, and to eat and drink and get drunk. 46 The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not aware of. He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the unbelievers. 47 “The servant who knows the master’s will and does not get ready or does not do what the master wants will be beaten with many blows. 48 But the one who does not know and does things deserving punishment will be beaten with few blows. From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked.
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Matt 11 said:
Woe on Unrepentant Towns

20 Then Jesus began to denounce the towns in which most of his miracles had been performed, because they did not repent. 21 “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. 22 But I tell you, it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you. 23 And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted to the heavens? No, you will go down to Hades.[e] For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Sodom, it would have remained to this day. 24 But I tell you that it will be more bearable for Sodom on the day of judgment than for you.”
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It appears to me, that scripture says... not all sins are always equally sinful. James 4 tells us, that knowing something is sinful, or knowing what we ought to do, and then doing the opposite of what we should... makes it worse.


James 4 said:
Boasting About Tomorrow

13 Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” 14 Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. 15 Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.” 16 As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil. 17 If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them

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Okay, here's my take on it. ANY SIN WILL SCREW YOU OVER IF YOU DON'T SEEK GOD'S FORGIVENESS. In that respect, yes, they are all equally bad. However, there is one sin that will not be forgiven, EVER, because it stems from a pure hatred of God. To blaspheme the Name of God is an unforgivable offense, as Jesus explained when the pharasees (sorry if that's misspelled) accused Jesus of "casting out demons by a demon". In conclusion, yes, all sins are equal (except cursing the Name of the Lord).
 
laoshanlung said:
Okay, here's my take on it. ANY SIN WILL SCREW YOU OVER IF YOU DON'T SEEK GOD'S FORGIVENESS. In that respect, yes, they are all equally bad. However, there is one sin that will not be forgiven, EVER, because it stems from a pure hatred of God. To blaspheme the Name of God is an unforgivable offense, as Jesus explained when the pharasees (sorry if that's misspelled) accused Jesus of "casting out demons by a demon". In conclusion, yes, all sins are equal (except cursing the Name of the Lord).
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Actually i am thinking why it is unforgivable. Is it that bad? How about a person that used to hate God but decided to leave his old life and decided to serve God with all his might?
 
uh, cursing JESUS CHRIST or GOD is not the ultimate unforgivable S.I.N.....for GOD and His Son JESUS are cursed moment by moment. Jesus asked His Father to forgive those who had just cursed and spit and caused pain to His body. However, my BIBLE tells me that blaspheming the Holy Ghost is the unpardonable sin. What does that mean? We are lured and encouraged to come to JESUS by the Holy Spirit. All peoples, everywhere, are perfect candidates for salvation. However, if we disregard, ignore, curse, or reject constantly the wooing of the Holy Spirit, we are setting ourselves up for eternal destruction. The blame is on our own heads. That, alone, will seal our fate, which is unpardonable, because it is our own choice. The silly thing is, there are NO atheists in hell....by the time they get there, they will know just how wrong they were by proclaiming there is NO GOD! They will not walk around and ask.."Why am I here?"..They already know just how blasphemous they were.
 
How about people that USED TO be atheists? They denied God and did not want to believe Him in the past, but finally they realize they were wrong and they decided to follow Jesus. Will they be forgiven? I thought if the blaspheming the Holy Spirit is an unforgivable sin, then they won't get any chances to be forgiven no matter what (?)

Pls correct me if i am wrong
 
Elisabet said:
How about people that USED TO be atheists? They denied God and did not want to believe Him in the past, but finally they realize they were wrong and they decided to follow Jesus. Will they be forgiven? I thought if the blaspheming the Holy Spirit is an unforgivable sin, then they won't get any chances to be forgiven no matter what (?)

Pls correct me if i am wrong
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We were ALL like that, to one extent or another. God's Word says He can, will, and does "forgive our lawlessness... and remembers our sin no more."

And don't be sweating the things you do and call, "sins".. God's concern is with the state of our hearts...... NOT each little action we perform daily, and whether they are all perfect.

And, "NO" you do NOT, as you have been told, have to beg forgiveness for each thing you do wrong. Accepting Jesus guaranteed our forgiveness... and that "heart" I mentioned that God is looking for......... That is how He already knows how sorry we are. He can "read" our hearts.... a show of remorse (no matter HOW well-displayed and "convincing" to us, means little to him. He looks past that fine performance, and sees how we REALLY feel in our hearts.

If we really HAD to confess each thing we call "sin", we would all be in a heap of trouble because we would always miss some..... often because we sometimes don't even realize we are doing them.
 
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BTW, the ONLY unforgivable sin is blaspheming The Holy Spirit. And that has NOTHING to do with cussing or cursing. It means that we CONTINUALLY deny the testimony of The Holy Spirit. And that testimony is that Jesus is the son of God, and that in believing in (trusting in) Him, we can live forever with Him.

OF COURSE, if we deny THAT.... it would be impossible to receive the forgiveness offered to us.
 
The question has never been the performance of specific "sinS", but the state of our hearts. Do we desire to stay in a condition of "being in sin", or do we want to follow Jesus, and "be in Him?"
 
Willie-T said:
We were ALL like that, to one extent or another. God's Word says He can, will, and does "forgive our lawlessness... and remembers our sin no more."

And don't be sweating the things you do and call, "sins".. God's concern is with the state of our hearts...... NOT each little action we perform daily, and whether they are all perfect.

And, "NO" you do NOT, as you have been told, have to beg forgiveness for each thing you do wrong. Accepting Jesus guaranteed our forgiveness... and that "heart" I mentioned that God is looking for......... That is how He already knows how sorry we are. He can "read" our hearts.... a show of remorse (no matter HOW well-displayed and "convincing" to us, means little to him. He looks past that fine performance, and sees how we REALLY feel in our hearts.

If we really HAD to confess each thing we call "sin", we would all be in a heap of trouble because we would always miss some..... often because we sometimes don't even realize we are doing them.
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You need to read this over and over. I will only add that all sin is worthy of Hell. That's why we need a savior. The greatest revelation I ever had in my Christian walk is that my salvation isn't dependent on me. When you understand all that means, you will have gone far past what many Christians understand.

While all sin makes us worthy of Hell and God forgives all sins, some sins have a worse consequence. It's not that God is more angry about some sins. It's that some sins will effect you more than others. Some sins are harder to get free from and will lead you down harder roads in darker places.
 
shotgunner said:
You need to read this over and over. I will only add that all sin is worthy of Hell. That's why we need a savior. The greatest revelation I ever had in my Christian walk is that my salvation isn't dependent on me. When you understand all that means, you will have gone far past what many Christians understand.

While all sin makes us worthy of Hell and God forgives all sins, some sins have a worse consequence. It's not that God is more angry about some sins. It's that some sins will effect you more than others. Some sins are harder to get free from and will lead you down harder roads in darker places.
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By all means. Live like God shows us, and this life will be one you can look back upon at 70, and take satisfaction. Go against the principles God outlines, and you just may find yourself living decades and decades of pure misery..... and those around you, too.

And this is not even touching on anything Spiritual, which just makes everything all that much more exciting.
 
So you see why God wants us free from sin! All sin has some sort of death attached to it. It might not send you to hell but you might get to Heaven early and suffer hell on earth until you do.
 
Willie-T said:
BTW, the ONLY unforgivable sin is blaspheming The Holy Spirit. And that has NOTHING to do with cussing or cursing. It means that we CONTINUALLY deny the testimony of The Holy Spirit. And that testimony is that Jesus is the son of God, and that in believing in (trusting in) Him, we can live forever with Him.

OF COURSE, if we deny THAT.... it would be impossible to receive the forgiveness offered to us.
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It will ONLY be unforgivable if we NEVER want to accept Jesus, right? But if we accept Him to be our saviour an admit that we cannot get salvation in our own way, we will be forgiven
 
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