If you break one, you break them all?

Question

Many Christians have stated this "If you break one law, you have broken them all" Yet seem bent on pointing out only certain "sins" of others.... such as Homosexuality. So based on this line of reasoning.... if you lie, you have committed a Homosexual act? If you steal? If they are all considered one and the same, how do you accept the fact that any sin a Heterosexual commits would be viewed by your God as the exact same thing as commiting a Homosexual act?

Hannah - so then it must be Christianity which is disingenuous because that is who is representing it this way. Real quick to point the finger elsewhere and say things like this (not you personally - you in general) when it's towards someone else's group. Just as soon as it's pointed right back... it's rationalized away and the asker is called "insincere". Good try though... but I've seen way too much to take those types of words to heart from a total stranger who obviously is ignoring that Christians do indeed do this.

Agreed angrygramma - that is the point. People, not all mind you, tend to forget it when dealing with other people.




Mary - I know of a few Homosexuals who refrain from the sexual act itself, yet they are still Homosexuals because they are still attracted to the same sex. It isn't just the act itself that makes one a Homosexual. So it is not the same as someone proclaiming "I am an Adulterer"

Answer 1

You know christians only mean this in regards to people other than themselves and their loved ones. It's much more convenient to judge YOU by those standards than it is to hold themselves accountable. Just count how many times someone says something judgemental about your character or beliefs. They think they're doing the right thing, but Jesus told them to judge not, lest ye be judged. Clearly, they have violated this...

Answer 2

To restate it slightly for the purpose of clarification, the apostle James, under inspiration, told those to whom he addressed his letter that whoever observes all the Law but makes a false step in one point has become an offender against them all. Because the person who said you must not commit adultery also said you must not murder. James 2:10-11. Now, did James mean then that every person who committed adultery was also a murderer? Of course not. What he meant was that when we sin, we break God's law. Period.

It is disingenuous, however, to suggest that the heterosexual who steals is committing a homosexual act, as you put it.

Hannah J Paul

Answer 3

If you commit any sin you are guilty of sin. Period. However, there are some sins which are practiced regularly. Habitually lying, serial murder, and sexual sins including homosexuality are among those regularly practiced sins. Christians are covered by grace from the occasional, out of character sin. But a habitual sin is one that must be repented.

Answer 4

Actually, heterosexual adultery was punished just as severely as homosexual adultery in the Old Testament. One was stoned just as dead as the other.

The New Testament teaches not to cast stones because we've all sinned BUT the Lord then said "Go, and sin no more."

We always choose to forget that last part.

Answer 5

Umm, that's not exactly what that means.

But to God, sin is blackness, that is true. No matter the sin.

But look, the only reason people point out homosexuality so much is that it is flung into our society with such flagrant ease. Gay folk parade their sin like other sins, like liars, do not.

Answer 6

How wrong you can be to classify all Christians the same. That's like saying all men are the same or all women are the same.

I am a pastor and I am under the same umbrella that you are under. Do you know that just because I call myself a Christian does not give me a one way ticket to heaven. I can call my self a Christian and still don't believe in Jesus Christ.

Just like not believing if you think that keeps you from hell, well your wrong.

Answer 7

Sin is sin. Your attitude about sin, if you wish to continue in it, or are resolved to be forgiven and work hard at refraining from future sin.... that is the real test.

If someone proudly proclaims; "I am an adulterer."
they have said they sin, and expect to continue in sin.

If someone proclaims; "I am a homosexual."
they are actually saying; "I am planning to continue in this sin."
not only planning to continue, but also labeling themselves with the sin, and making it a main project for their life.
It would be different if one were to confess to their priest; "I have committed the sin of having sex with someone of the same sex, AND I am deeply sorry and resolve to discontinue this activity."
Such as person is not identifying themselves with the label of 'homosexual', but is identifying themselves with repentance of sin, for which cause Christ died and rose again from the dead.

We have some big lies in our vocabulary in society today.
A person is not to be labeled with their past sin.
A person is not to be chained to an act.
A person has free will.

Homosexuality is a lie. if a lie is believed and embraced, it becomes true for us.
People are generally sexual in nature, BUT we are able to overcome nature. We are intelligent enough to make choices. If we have urges we find too compelling, God is able to give us the strength we require to resist temptation.

Anyone who says otherwise is believing a lie.

Answer 8

I am a Christian and I completely agree with you!!!!

God does not put one sin higher/lower than any other.

I Timothy 1:8-11
We know that the law is good if one uses it properly. We also know that law is made not for the righteous but for lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and sinful, the unholy and irreligious; for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers, for adulterers and perverts, for slave traders and liars and perjurers—and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine that conforms to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which he entrusted to me.

Answer 9

the point is not that you brake all the laws when you sin the fact is you have broken the law when you sin it is a misconception that to brake one you brake all the point is to live under the law you have to live under all of them if you brake one you are biblicaly out from under the law and to answer the other bit your right to a point many people not just Christians will point the finger very very fast away from them selfs because they dont want to face the fact that we are all in need of a savour i know i have fallen short of the glory and was borne under the law of sin and death but i know also in acord to the word that is His covanant i am set free from the law of sin and death and given the new law of life in Jesus Christ

Answer 10

I wonder if those who answered about habitual sinning are ready to give up all of their mixed fabric clothing, stop eating unclean foods such as pork and shellfish, which are all laws against which most of them sin every day.
Excellent question, my friend.