Is all sin related equal in the sight of God ?

[QuestionQuest74]

Supported with Scripture is all sin looked at the same in the eyes of God or some worst than others ?

 

[sandman]

Supported with Scripture is all sin looked at the same in the eyes of God or some worst than others ?

Yes …sin is sin…. (with the exclusion of the sin unto death). And while sin does not affect our standing as sons of God…. it does affect of state of fellowship (harmony or alignment) with God …We are going to blow it …but we have an advocate with the father 1Jo 1:6-9.

Society and religion put degrees on sin. Society to maintain order… religion to maintain control.

 

[Paleouss]

Supported with Scripture is all sin looked at the same in the eyes of God or some worst than others ?

Psa 5:4 "For You are not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness, Nor shall evil dwell with You."

God abhors any sin, it cannot dwell with Him. Those that are defiled with any sin, ever, cannot come in the presence of the Lord without being cleansed (Lev 14:11). For those that believe, we walk in the holiness of Christ.

Peace to you

 

[Xeno.of.athens]

Supported with Scripture is all sin looked at the same in the eyes of God or some worst than others ?

No, there is mortal sin and there is sin that is not mortal.

These things I write to you that you may know that you have eternal life: you who believe in the name of the Son of God. And this is the confidence which we have towards him: That, whatsoever we shall ask according to his will, he heareth us. And we know that he heareth us whatsoever we ask: we know that we have the petitions which we request of him. He that knoweth his brother to sin a sin which is not to death, let him ask: and life shall be given to him who sinneth not to death. There is a sin unto death. For that I say not that any man ask. All iniquity is sin. And there is a sin unto death. We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not: but the generation of God preserveth him and the wicked one toucheth him not. We know that we are of God and the whole world is seated in wickedness. And we know that the Son of God is come. And he hath given us understanding that we may know the true God and may be in his true Son. This is the true God and life eternal. Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.​

1 John 5:13-21 DRB

 

[timothyu]

Sin is merely putting our will ahead of the will of God, as first demonstrated by Eve, then Adam. It matters not the degree to which some seek self interest compared to others. We were told to repent, not of particular sins, but of the one original sin, putting our will ahead of the will of God. In the meantime, Jesus said in the Lord's prayer that there will come a time where the Father's will will be done in earth as it is in Heaven.

Luke 16:15 And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.

Romans 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

James 4:4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

 

[HTacianas]

Supported with Scripture is all sin looked at the same in the eyes of God or some worst than others ?

Throughout the old testament there are requirements for sacrifice for "sins of ignorance". A sin of ignorance is a sin one commits unknowingly or by accident. For example:

Lev 5:4 ‘Or if a person swears, speaking thoughtlessly with his lips to do evil or to do good, whatever it is that a man may pronounce by an oath, and he is unaware of it—when he realizes it, then he shall be guilty in any of these matters.

Lev 5:5 ‘And it shall be, when he is guilty in any of these matters, that he shall confess that he has sinned in that thing;

Lev 5:6 ‘and he shall bring his trespass offering to the LORD for his sin which he has committed, a female from the flock, a lamb or a kid of the goats as a sin offering. So the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin.

Note that while there is a sacrificial atonement for such sins, there is no sacrificial atonement for murder. Murder requires the death of the guilty. So yes, there is a difference in sins. See the writer of 1 John:

1Jo 1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

He says that if say we have no sin, we lie. But later:

1Jo 3:6 Whoever abides in Him does not sin. Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him.

There is the difference between minor sins and major sins. We all sin inadvertently, but not intentionally. Anyone who intentionally sins "has neither seen him nor known him". It's perhaps best illustrated in the Roman Church's teaching on mortal and venial sin. A mortal sin is a "sin unto death" while a venial sin is a "sin not unto death" as @Xeno.of.athens pointed out above.

 

[timothyu]

All sin leads to death because it focuses on self rather than the will of the Father (which for now commands us to focus on caring for others). We get a second chance thanks to the gift of resurrection providing we repent of our self serving ways and are willing to give up our selfish nature in order to allow Him to work through us as originally intended