Is the ramification of a sin relative to the individual that commits it?

Answer 1

Sin is sin. Some sins are harder to recover from than other sins, but the punishment is the same for everything: death. Nobody can escape it on money, charm or good looks. Nobody can get a reduced sentence because they have some good connections. When you break God's Law, you eventually have to answer to him about it.

This is not to say that if you have trouble obeying, God will sit there waiting to accuse you and punish you, and enjoy every minute of it. GOD IS NOT SADISTIC. That's something completely opposite to His character. Read the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20). It's a promise. With His help, you will keep your priorities straight, with nothing above Him. With his help, you won't take his name in vain (by swearing or claiming to be a Christian but really being a hypocrite), and you'll remember to keep the Sabbath. He can help you respect your parents, resist killing people (most people don't have a problem with that), adultery, theft and lying, and finally coveting.

Answer 2

I believe that you sin against people mainly (and against God) but the consequences can branch out in many directions. The perpetrator is not the only one to have ramifications or it would be incosequential and not sinful and the ramifications might not stop at the victim but carry on to another degree of separation and on from there. I suppose you can sin against yourself but there would still be some ripples in the pond.

Answer 3

It is always difficult and dangerous to attempt to list sins according to their degree of seriousness. In one sense, all sins are equal in that they all separate us from God. The Bible's statement, "For the wages of sin is death ..." (Romans 6:23), applies to all sin, whether of thought, word, or deed.

At the same time, it seems obvious that some sins are worse than others in both motivation and effects and should be judged accordingly. Stealing a loaf of bread is vastly different than exterminating a million people. Sins may also differ at their root. Theologians have sought for centuries to determine what the essence of sin is. Some have chosen sensuality, others selfishness, and still others pride or unbelief. In the Old Testament, God applied different penalties to different sins, suggesting variations in the seriousness of some sins. A thief paid restitution; an occult practitioner was cut off from Israel; one who committed adultery or a homosexual act or cursed his parents was put to death (see Exodus, chapter 22 and Leviticus, chapter 20).

In the New Testament Jesus said it would be more bearable on the day of judgment for Sodom than for Capernaum because of Capernaum's unbelief and refusal to repent at His miracles (Matthew 11:23-24). The sins of Sodom were identified in Ezekiel 16:21 as arrogance, gluttony, indifference to the poor and needy, haughtiness, and "detestable things." When Jesus spoke of his second coming and judgment, he warned that among those deserving punishment some would "be beaten with many blows" and others "with few blows" (Luke 12:47-48). He also reserved His most fierce denunciations for the pride and unbelief of the religious leaders, not the sexually immoral (Matthew 23:13-36).

However, remember that whether our sins be relatively small or great, they will place us in hell apart from God's grace. The good news is that Jesus paid the penalty for our sins and the sins of the whole world at the Cross. If we will repent and turn to Jesus in faith, our sins will be forgiven, and we will receive the gift of eternal life.

Answer 4

Sin is an outdated concept. Right and wrong are judgements by people of other people. Any ramifications of an action are direct causes of actions and reactions by other people.

Answer 5

By sin, do you mean breaking the law? The law should treat everybody as an equal, but it doesn't. The rich and famous get away with it.

Answer 6

As Forrest Gump would say;

Evil is as evil does.

Simple but to the point w/o a 1000 word essay.

Answer 7

The courts believe that if a person does not understand mentally what they have done, they are not judged as harshly.