Comparative Sin

[barrow29]

God teaches that a sin is a sin. I've heard believers say that God is saying that any sin taints Him. An example I was given was that God is a perfectly clear glass of water, and squeezing a drop of black dye into the glass, even if it is small, taints the entire glass. This analogy changed my perception of all sins being equal.

God does hate all sin, but is it possible that God hates some sin more than others? The Bible does mention the seven things that God hates. The Bible distinguishes seven sins from the rest to which God has a serious problem with.

Although God hates all sin, I'm pondering the possibility that maybe God does in fact, hate some sin more than other sin. A pedophile may disgust God more than someone who gets into an intense argument with their spouse. A cold blooded murderer angers God more than someone who steals from a store.

 

[MrPolo]

There are a number of passages that indicate the greater magnitude of some sins over others:

James 1:15 Then desire conceives and brings forth sin, and when sin reaches maturity it gives birth to death.

John 19:11 Jesus answered him, "you would have no power over Me unless it had been given you from above; therefore he who delivered Me to you has the greater sin."

Romans 6:19 ...For just as you once yielded your members to impurity and to greater and greater iniquity...

Galatians 6:1 Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual should restire him in a spirit of gentleness. Look to yourself, lest you too be tempted.

1 John 5:17 All wrongdoing is sin, but there is sin that is not deadly.

Ezekiel 8:9-13 And he said to me, "Go in, and see the vile abominations that they are committing here." So I went in and saw; and there, portrayed upon the wall round about, were all kinds of creeping things, and loathsome beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel. And before them stood seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel, with Ja-azani'ah the son of Shaphan standing among them. Each had his censer in his hand, and the smoke of the cloud of incense went up. Then he said to me, "Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, every man in his room of pictures? For they say, `The Lord does not see us, the Lord has forsaken the land.'" He said also to me, "You will see still greater abominations which they commit."​

I'm sure you could find more.

 

[solarwave]

I agree with MrPolo. The Bible is clear that certain sins are worse than others and it is clear in our own moral judgement that certain sins are worse than others.

It may be clear that a small ink dot effects the whole glass but a bigger ink blot turns the whole glass much darker.

By the way what are the seven sins you talk of?