Levels of sin

Interesting. At the fall, after Adam and Eve, we got our sin natures. I got that. And it happened to everybody. BUT, here's the mystery {to me, at least}. If everyone inherited the sin nature, you would think all the unsaved are on equal footing, and would have an equal level of sin. But no. Because although sin is sin, one sinner may commit less "serious" sins than another. Like, one unsaved person, obviously, since the fall, inherited the sin nature, but when they hear of someone committing a VIOLENT sin, like stabbing someone to death after a robbery, etc., the other unsaved person would find it disgusting. Like I've heard some unsaved people who think {and rightly so} that adultery is a sleazy thing. Now here's the question--if an unsaved person is in a fallen state, I would think that they in that state wouldn't know right from wrong, to recognize that the other one is doing wrong by {being on drugs, killing someone, etc.} You would think that an unsaved person's judgment is off because of their own sin nature, but no. This shows me that there are levels of sin, and not all unsaved people commit really "over the top" sins. It also makes me think of what I've heard some Christians say, about degrees of punishment in hell. So how can the sinful state fall on all of us, yet some have more "extreme" sins than others?

 

[The Encourager]

When we turn to Christ and receive His forgiveness, we experience a heart change (Luke 9:23; Acts 1:8). Forgiveness is not cheap, and it does not excuse the sin that separated us from God. It cost God everything to offer us the cleansing that pronounces us righteous before Him (John 3:16; 15:13). Rather than continue in the self-centered path that led us astray from Him to begin with, the forgiven can walk in God’s path (Luke 14:27). A move toward God is a move toward righteousness, purity, and holy living (1 Peter 1:16; Romans 8:29). We cannot experience the transforming power of forgiveness without being forever changed.

It goes without saying that the woman caught in adultery did not return to her infidelity. She had met Jesus. She would not be perfect. No one is. But she was forever changed. Her eyes had been opened to the depravity of what she was doing. Sin no longer held the appeal it once did. When we meet Jesus, sin no longer holds its fatal attraction. Grace changes things. “Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?” (Romans 6:1–2). When we are born again (John 3:3), the power of the Holy Spirit breaks the power that sin once had over us (Romans 6:6). Once we lived only to please ourselves, but when we have been forgiven, our motivation changes. We now live to please God (Galatians 2:20).

 

[Ginoh]

Any level of sin will get you and me to hell. Satan loves people get into everything that Jesus will not be happy about. Like watching porn, violent movies, playing the lottery, reading horoscopes.

 

[Steven Bobb]

When we turn to Christ and receive His forgiveness, we experience a heart change (Luke 9:23; Acts 1:8). Forgiveness is not cheap, and it does not excuse the sin that separated us from God. It cost God everything to offer us the cleansing that pronounces us righteous before Him (John 3:16; 15:13). Rather than continue in the self-centered path that led us astray from Him to begin with, the forgiven can walk in God’s path (Luke 14:27). A move toward God is a move toward righteousness, purity, and holy living (1 Peter 1:16; Romans 8:29). We cannot experience the transforming power of forgiveness without being forever changed.

It goes without saying that the woman caught in adultery did not return to her infidelity. She had met Jesus. She would not be perfect. No one is. But she was forever changed. Her eyes had been opened to the depravity of what she was doing. Sin no longer held the appeal it once did. When we meet Jesus, sin no longer holds its fatal attraction. Grace changes things. “Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?” (Romans 6:1–2).When we are born again (John 3:3), the power of the Holy Spirit breaks the power that sin once had over us (Romans 6:6). Once we lived only to please ourselves, but when we have been forgiven, our motivation changes. We now live to please God (Galatians 2:20).

No, but I wasn't referring to a person who becomes saved. I mean one unsaved sinner, maybe into the occult, smoking, etc., yet they find a violent sin like murder, etc., repulsive. Like what comes to mind is I knew a guy who was always into bad things. He eventually, I heard, got arrested for murdering his wife!! {was suspected of drowning another woman, after raping her, too} {Yet there were other unsaved people who would drink, fornicate, smoke pot, and even a lady into spiritism, yet these sinners shied away from this guy and even admitted they felt uneasy and even afraid around him!!} So this shows me that not all unsaved people are violent criminals, {or on the same wavelength as them} and some behavior is too "extreme" for some of them, even though unsaved. No unsaved person can enter Heaven, but I'm just saying some are more "extreme" than others. Not every unsaved person is Charles Manson, Hitler, etc.

 

[Wenceslatt]

Small sins, big sins, secret sins and those sins in the open will get all of us to hell. Jesus want us all to live a life that pleases the Father. No wonder Jesus said. Follow peace with all men and holiness without which no one shall see the Lord.

 

[Adelynn]

Ask the Lord to forgive all your sins. Daily seek His face and He will come to you and cleanse your soul from all evil. Amen

 

[Martha Buthelezi]

Interesting. At the fall, after Adam and Eve, we got our sin natures. I got that. And it happened to everybody. BUT, here's the mystery {to me, at least}. If everyone inherited the sin nature, you would think all the unsaved are on equal footing, and would have an equal level of sin. But no. Because although sin is sin, one sinner may commit less "serious" sins than another. Like, one unsaved person, obviously, since the fall, inherited the sin nature, but when they hear of someone committing a VIOLENT sin, like stabbing someone to death after a robbery, etc., the other unsaved person would find it disgusting. Like I've heard some unsaved people who think {and rightly so} that adultery is a sleazy thing. Now here's the question--if an unsaved person is in a fallen state, I would think that they in that state wouldn't know right from wrong, to recognize that the other one is doing wrong by {being on drugs, killing someone, etc.} You would think that an unsaved person's judgment is off because of their own sin nature, but no. This shows me that there are levels of sin, and not all unsaved people commit really "over the top" sins. It also makes me think of what I've heard some Christians say, about degrees of punishment in hell. So how can the sinful state fall on all of us, yet some have more "extreme" sins than others?

I believe that sin is equal and the judgment is equal. There is no small sin and big is.