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Christ said all sins are equal in the eyes of God.. I think it was around the time he was saving the adulterer.
Some of those sinful things don't really seem to be sins to me. I mean, glutton or sloth is hardly a terrible thing in my opinion. Murder,rape and adultery are the only really bad things. Lying isn't very severe in my eyes and neither is deceat or vanity. There are things far worse that might be done to you.
Quote from: Trauma on December 16, 2004, 09:15:52 PMChrist said all sins are equal in the eyes of God.. I think it was around the time he was saving the adulterer. Just out of curiousity... killing and stealing apples are both sins. Why are they equal sins?
Quote from: Mauzip a.k.a. Kerstman on December 17, 2004, 05:54:05 PMQuote from: Trauma on December 16, 2004, 09:15:52 PMChrist said all sins are equal in the eyes of God.. I think it was around the time he was saving the adulterer. Just out of curiousity... killing and stealing apples are both sins. Why are they equal sins?It's philosophical, man, and I don't see you as much of a philosopher... but... I'll waste my time anyways, hell I have nothing better to do.Heaven, defined as the place the lord dwells in, is perfect, and as such has no evil or sin within it. If you have committed sin or have done evil, you cannot dwell in heaven... because it would make heaven imperfect. Imagine it as a clean white room with white carpet and white linen everywhere. It's so great, everything's perfectly clean. Now, if you walk in the room, covered in the sin of murder (Mud all over you)... you'd pollute the entire room, and the room would no longer be heaven, it'd be filthy. As well, if you walked in the room with the sin of a lie on you, you may only have 1 small speck of dirt on the bottom of your shoe... the room would still be polluted, and would still make it 'not' heaven, and not perfectly clean. So all sins are equal; no sin, period, no matter how small can be allowed to enter Heaven. The only way our sins are abolished is if someone is punished, fairly, for our sins and evil actions (and even thoughts)... since no human could be punished adequately to fairly compensate for our transgressions, the literal son of God, Jesus Christ, volunteered to be punished for all of us to fairly compensate our sins, out of love and grace for all of us on the earth, not just the people that believe, but everyone, even those that hate and despise him.
So if Jesus was already punished for our sins, why does it matter if we sin now?