Is all sin equal in God's eyes?

Question

From a Christian viewpoint.

Answer 1

All sin separates us from God.

Answer 2

All have sinned and all of us are separated from God because of our sin. All sins are forgivable by God except for blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. However, all sins are not equal. These are the words of Jesus.
John 19:11 Jesus answered, "You would have no power over me if it were not given to you from above. Therefore, the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin."

Answer 3

These sins are cause for a pastor to tell a mean to leave the church for a while...

1 corinthians5:
11But I now have written unto you not to keep company with any man who is called a brother if he is a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner. With such a one you are not even to eat.


12For what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do not ye judge those who are within?


13But those who are outside, God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

Then theres blasphemy of the holy ghost which is unforgivable.

"there is a sin that leads to death"

Answer 4

Well, yes and no. Yes because Jesus said everyone who hates his brother is a murderer and that if a man even looks at a woman to lust after her than he's committed the sin already in his heart. But He said these things to show us that everyone is a sinner, not to compare sins. He wants us to know that we are all sinners because man tends to ignore his own sins and think he is a "good person". If He didn't show us our error then we wouldn't have understood what He did for us on the cross.

Answer 5

All sins are equal in that any sin will keep you separated from God. So, yes.

However, all sins are not equal in consequence, devestation, etc. Let's be logical: Do you honestly think God is as bothered by a white lie as he is abusing a child?

All sins are not equal - some are particularly devestating - but all sin separates us from God. So, we need a Savior.

Answer 6

--NO , THEIR is a distinction as to levels of sin and the punishment or consequences thereof:
--THOSE PRACTICING Sodomy in Sodom & Gommorah were viewed in this way:
(Genesis 18:20-21) “20 Consequently Jehovah said: “The cry of complaint about Sod′om and Go·mor′rah, yes, it is loud, and their sin, yes, it is VERY HEAVY(my caps). 21 I am quite determined to go down that I may see whether they act altogether according to the outcry over it that has come to me, and, if not, I can get to know it.””

--IT WAS certainly found to be very heavy to the point that the Sodomites wanted to gang rape the 2 angel visitors to Lot!
--JESUS INDEED viewed the judgement on the Sodomites by expressing this:
(Luke 17:28-30) “. . .Likewise, just as it occurred in the days of Lot: they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building. 29 But on the day that Lot came out of Sod′om it rained fire and sulphur from heaven and destroyed them all. 30 The same way it will be on that day when the Son of man is to be revealed. . .”
--AND MOST likely in reference to sinning against the holy spirit, please note:

(1 John 5:16-17) “. . .If anyone catches sight of his brother sinning a sin that does not incur death, he will ask, and he will give life to him, yes, to those not sinning so as to incur death. There is a sin that does incur death. It is concerning that sin that I do not tell him to make request. 17 All unrighteousness is sin; and yet there is a sin that does not incur death.”

Answer 7

Obviously not. The very idea is absurd. James tells us that there are "sins unto death" and sins "not unto death", and that sins "not unto death" are more easily forgiven. This is why the Church Christ founded has always differentiated between mortal sins (mortal meaning "unto death") and venial sins (venial meaning "easily forgiven"). Jesus Himself said, 'he who delivered me over to you is guilty of the greater sin". That statement wouldn't make much sense if all sin were the same before God. Also, we know that some people's sins are sufficient to send them to hell. However, if all sin is the same before God, then everyone should go to hell.

Answer 8

Yes and only one is unforgivable: Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit

Answer 9

You only need to break one of the Ten Commandments to go to Hell. Is that equal enough for you.

Answer 10

1 John 1:6-8 (King James Version)
King James Version (KJV)
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6If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:

7But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

8If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.