Take for example the Ten Commandments. Technically, bearing false witness against someone can be equated to murder in that any violation of the Ten Commandments warrants eternal damnation. We pervert our sense of right or wrong by rationalization and relativism.
Do you minimalize some of the Ten Commandments while condemning someone else for violating a Commandment? Or, do you try to equate what God put as the Ten Commandments as morally the same as murder? Please explain.
2006-08-02 15:15:36 · 10 answers · asked by Search4truth 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Breaking ANY of the commandments has the same punishment, death and separation from God. Therefore, none is better or worse than the other in the eyes of God.
2006-08-02 15:24:39 · answer #1 · answered by David T 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I try to follow the Ten Commandments. But I do not understand them to be or see them as being equivalent to each other. Perhaps this, as you claim, is being relativistic.
But when I look at the American justice system (still one of the greatest systems of justice in the world, however flawed it may be), I see the same distinctions. One who steals is not as severly punished as one who murders (and those are the two crimes that correlate most closely to the Ten Commandments). And just focusing on theft; we differentiate degrees of theft. Someone who shoplifts a CD from a store is not a severly punished as someone who robs a bank at gunpoint. But if you see this as being relativistic, that's your preogrative. I simply believe that the punishment should fit the crime, and just as not all crimes are equal, I do not see all sins as being equal.
And from my studies, I don't think that violation of any of the Ten Commandments "warrants eternal damnation". Such a claim seems to contradict the sacrifice of Jesus Christ and the fact that we can seek and be granted forgiveness.
2006-08-02 22:36:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no "rating" on sin. Sin is sin, period. Society and the judicial system has put boundaries on what we believers know as sin, but God doesn't.
God gave Moses the 10 Commandments to pass on to us. Although Christ came and gave the "top 2" (Mark 12:29 And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is , Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.
31 And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.), the 10 Commandments are still valid today, just as they were when Moses received them from God!
Violating the commandments of God do warrant eternal damnation, but thanks Christ, we believers have the opportunity to spend Eternity with Him! (Romans 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.)
Always remember, accepting Christ as one's Saviour is NOT a license to sin! Christians are NOT perfect, we ARE forgiven, but we need to live by God's word, NOT what the world wants us to be.
2006-08-02 22:42:06 · answer #3 · answered by geniec67 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I get where you are coming from and actually you have the same viewpoint as God and the Bible. God regards sin as sin. God does not have a heirarchy of sin where He regards any one sin as being better or worse than another sin, or being more punishable than any other sin. It is society that has attached a stronger and more severe penality to muder, for what is muder but the taking of another life. If you look at the legal code involuntary manslaughter (the accidential) taking of another life is punished less severely than voluntary manslaugher, death that was planned and premediated.
Good question, good thinking,,,,,,,,,,,,
2006-08-02 22:38:25 · answer #4 · answered by Barbara M 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If God minimized the severity of certain sins, than people would judge all the time and think that doing something 'less bad' is okay because it's not 'as bad' as another type of sin in comparison and so, that may provoke or encourage certain people to commit more of the 'lesser sins.' It's what I think and so the message to all of us is: sin is all sin and it is wrong -so just don't do it.
2006-08-02 22:24:42 · answer #5 · answered by Venus 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bearing false fitness, or lying, and coveting are not "equivalent" to murder. They are all sins, though. The Ten Commandments are ten of many sins that we can and do commit. God did not give us the Ten Commandments in order to give us a standard to live by; He gave us the Ten Commandments to show us that we are sinners in need of a Savior. No one can please God by trying to obey theTen Commandments. We can only please God by realizing that we are sinners, repenting of our sin, and accepting Jesus Christ as our Savior.
2006-08-02 22:26:47 · answer #6 · answered by David S 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, it's human to want what you don't have and to even lie out of fear, but murder is planning the death of another its a little more serious.
2006-08-02 22:25:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In God's eyes yes. Because sin is sin. No matter what it is.
2006-08-02 22:31:09 · answer #8 · answered by *Ashley* 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe it is as deep as murder if you think of the consequences...
2006-08-02 22:20:49 · answer #9 · answered by toyoyo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ALL SIN IS DISOBEDIANACE
2006-08-02 22:20:32 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋