Does Christianity teach that all sins are equal.....Eating Shrimp or comitting Sodomy are both abominations ?

Question

If Christians do not abide by the OT laws concerning shrimp then why do they quote them concerning Homosexuality ?

If Sodomy is a sin equal to Divorce then..... where is the outcry against Divorce done for any reason other than infidelity ???

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Answer 1

Yes, but oddly enough sodomizing shrimp is perfectly acceptable. Turns out two wrongs _do_ make a right!

Answer 2

Eating shrimp is not a sin for Christians. We don't follow the Jewish food laws, but those are not for us. We do follow the Ten Commandments.

Christianity teaches that God the Father is so holy that He cannot look on sin; therefore, there is no "sliding scale" of sin but all sin is the same. That's why we have Jesus Christ, to attone for our sins.

Do you spend so much time in Christian churches that you can say there is no "outcry" against divorce?

Answer 3

Eating shrimp is not a sin.

Mat 15:17 Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?
Mat 15:18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.

As for all sin, there is one punishment, therefore they are all equal in God's eyes, however, not in mans eyes. Sin is sin regardless of what the sin it is.

Answer 4

You guys are funny......
James 2:10, you break the law in any point, you are guilty. But don't take stuff out of context. The Levitcal law was for priests and the Jewish people... and Romans, 1 Cor, Galatians all talk about sexual immorality (and stop focusing on homosexual sin.... all sex outside of God's design of marriage is sin for His followers... hetero or homo) , not just in the OT.... yea, divorce is sin
... but these things are only sin for Christians! Non Christians are not obligated to these things.

Answer 5

I was taught that sin is sin, regardless of its weightiness. I know it doesn't seem fair -- make the punishment fit the crime -- that sort of thing. But the Old Testament was pretty clear on what was or wasn't a sin.

I didn't think divorce was forbidden in all religions. I know that Catholics and some Evangelical faiths don't believe in it. I know of many Christians who are divorced. In fact, even a member of the clergy.

Answer 6

No, not all sins are equal. For example Jesus said, "Therefore the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin."

Concerning homosexual acts, "Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God." 1Cor 6:9,10 Yet there is no equivalent punishment for violating Jewish dietary restrictions.

Further those restrictions were never applied to Gentiles, and even with Jews, the Jewish Messiah lifted those restrictions in Acts 10, which was also affirmed in Acts 15.

As for Divorce, that's not even a sin per se. God himself got divorced. "I gave faithless Israel her certificate of divorce and sent her away because of all her adulteries." Jer 3:8 Though remarriage after divorce is another issue.

Answer 7

actually a lot of the dietary laws of the OT were because of the time and period those people lived in ascertain foods were forbidden like pork included because there was no way to safely preserve the meat and prevent salmonella and other food disease, the same with most shell seafoods. With today's modern technology and some food protections still in place, for everyone except those with fish allergies, it's perfectly okay and not a sin to eat shell fish of any kind.

It's mostly and really actually the "reason" you do something, not the thing itself you are doing, like if you know for yourself something is just flat out "wrong" in your heart and mind then that thing is a "sin" for you. If you were told to just take out the trash and you did it, but did it with an attitude and angry over it, then even doing it but with a wrong attitude made just taking out the trash a "sin" for you, per se.

Many of the OT laws had logical reasonings behind them. There were no antibotics and medicines like we have today, hey even the Romans knew about venereal disease, so to lie with those of any persuasion outside marriage 9 times out of 10, dear you WERE going to get some sort of sexual disease, no two ways about it. So it was just simply forboten!

And today it's still the attitude and the reason WHY you do something not always the thing you do. Our Jesus said it was what was in a man's own heart that condemned them, not always just the act itself.

There should be an outcry against the systems of divorce we have today, actually there really should be months of pre-marrige counseling preferably so there might be some preperation to avoid all the pitfalls that might lead to divorce. Unfortunately there are many righteous reasons for divorce and I happen to agree with half of them. If you as a man or a woman are being abused by your spouse get out of there and divorce the idiot, for one thing. Believe me my GOD is behind you all the way on that regardless of what any religious zealot would say otherwise to the contrary.

nope "sin" is knowing in yourself what is right to for you to do and you going ahead and doing the wrong of it anyways.

That's where you can get into trouble BUT that's where we have 1st John 1:9 as our get out of jail free card per se. not to do what was wrong for you to do in the first place all over again but hopefully to learn and grow from it to becoming a better person from then on. THAT'S what learning not to sin is supposed to be all about. For it's not what a man doeth that condemns him, but the attitude and thoughts of his heart.

Answer 8

There are differing levels of punishment to fit the differing levels of sin. There are always consequences. In the same way, there are differing levels of rewards for differing levels of good deeds. You reap what you sow. If you look around you what do you see? The big hunt the little. There is nothing equal about the things on this earth.

Answer 9

eating shrimp is not a sin

Acts
13And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill, and eat.

14But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean.

15And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common

Paul also said that it is not what goes into a man that makes his unclean, but what comes out of him.

I dint think there should be divorce even in the case of infidelity, Christ was asked about that and he said that in the beginning in my fathers house it was not so, but for the hardness of your hearts you can divorce for adultery.

Answer 10

I look at it this way;

sin is like fire. All fire is hot, and likely to grow. The pain from a fire is the same, whether it's small or large, you just get a lot more pain from a big fire. And finally, fire kills people, like sin, they both start small, and grow to fatal proportions. It's the quality of fire that is the same, not the quanatity.

Why would a loving God, give you something that you could roast marshmellows over, but have fatal potential? It's exactly like sex (quality, not quantity), there's a right way, and a wrong way. And we all have a fire down below...Stevie Ray Vaughn.

Answer 11

If you play your cards right you can have sodomy AND eat shrimp...there's a special sodomy dipping sauce for the little buggers.