SIN EQUALITY

All sins are not equal

Just doesn’t seem right

James 2:10 - one sin is the same as another

Are there degrees of punishment

Matthew 22:36

Verses in the Bible that require death:

Exodus 31:14
Leviticus 20:2 - about killing your children
Leviticus 20:10 & 20:13-16 - death
Leviticus 24:15-16 -
Exodus 21:12-14 - premeditated murder

Verses that don’t require death

Exodus 21:18-19 -
Exodus 22:1-4 -Stealing
Leviticus 27:32-33 - tithing
Number 5:5-7 -

Romans 6:23 - the wages of sin is death

Are all sins equal in God's eyes?

  1. What is the definition of sin?

    1. an immoral act considered to be a transgression against divine law

    2. Matthew 19:17 - Earn heaven if you keep the commandments

  2. What does sin look like in our lives?

    1. Is on-going sin worse than one time sin?

  3. Should we have to keep repenting?

    1. I John 1

  4. Blasphemy of the holy spirit is the 1 unforgivable sin - what does that really mean?

    1. I believe that Blasphemy of the holy spirit is to speak on its behalf. Faking that you have the holy spirit. (Mark 3:28)

    2. Blasphemy is belittling something or not giving it enough credit.

    3. Matthew 12;31 - You can bilittle Jesus just not the Holy spirit.

  5. Is sin the same for all people - can one person commit a sin, but his brother does the same action and does not sin?

    1. If you feel like something is a sin, you will be held accountable for it (Romans 14:23)

  6. Will we get a better position/place in heaven if we sin less than others?

    1. John 9:4-5
      “We must work the works of Him who sent Me, as long as it is day; night is coming, when no man can work.”

    2. Matthew 20:1-15 - The parable about one person working harder than another

  7. Is on-going sin worse than a one-time sin?

  8. If God sees all sins the same, should the court system?

  9. Is sinning against God worse than sinning against man?

  10. If all of our sins are forgiven by Jesus' blood, will we still be judged according to those actions?

  11. Sinning doesn’t have anything to do with salvation

    1. For even if we sin, we can still go to heaven - grace

  12. Ephesians 2:1-10

  13. Romasns 8: 1-9

Revelation 22:12

REward

Revelation 22:12 King James Version (KJV)

12 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
Calvin said that all sin is mortal in the sense that God could justifiably destroy each of us for the smallest sin we’ve committed. In fact, the penalty for sin was given the first day of human creation: “But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die” (Gen. 2:17)