Is Pete Buttigieg Really a Christian?

[Town Heretic]

That wasn't what you asked.

Let's look.

Homosexual activity is a grievous sin

As opposed to a what sort of alternative sin?

The better reading is found in addressing alternative to grievous, as the other term, sin, is present in my response.

You were responding to the claim that homosexuality was a grievous sin, by asking what it could be compared to that wasn't grievous.

No, but I understand how you got that. You read for the wrong term, supra.

Stealing is certainly a sin, and all sin grieves God.

Now that was the point.

But you would be hard pressed to say that stealing a tic-tac is a grievous sin, at the same level as homosexuality.

I'd be hard pressed to attempt to weigh and measure sin at all. Those distinctions have a way of excusing or accommodating. I'd avoid the effort.

Homosexual sex is a mortal sin and an abomination before the Lord.

All sin carries the same wage. Every sin requires grace.

 

[JudgeRightly]

I'd be hard pressed to attempt to weigh and measure sin at all. Those distinctions have a way of excusing or accommodating. I'd avoid the effort.

All sin carries the same wage. Every sin requires grace.

True, death is the wages of sin.

But you would be remiss in saying that therefore all sins are equal.

Avoid weighing sin?

Jesus told Pilate:

Jesus answered, [JESUS]“You could have no power at all against Me unless it had been given you from above. Therefore the one who delivered Me to you has the greater sin.”[/JESUS] - John 19:11 http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John19:11&version=NKJV

And Jesus tells us:

Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment.” - John 7:24 http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John7:24&version=NKJV

Which means we need to know what the correct judgements are in the first place. That means not following clichés, such as that all sins are equal.

A quick google search brings me to this article, which does a fairly decent job explaining this.
https://www.christiancourier.com/articles/966-are-some-sins-greater-than-others

And of course, there's also the kgov article and questionnaire as well.
https://kgov.com/the-greater-sin
https://kgov.com/equal

 

[Town Heretic]

True, death is the wages of sin.

Exactly.

But you would be remiss in saying that therefore all sins are equal.

I don't know that a hierarchy of sin does much for us, accepting the idea, if all sin leads to death and requires grace. And I'm concerned that involving ourselves in that consideration will tend to create caste systems and the mistaken sense of a hierarchy among sinners instead of an understanding of our common equality in meriting a thing no man should desire.

Avoid weighing sin?

Rather, avoid sin and leave the judgement of it to God, who told us what the end of every sin is absent grace.

Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment.” - John 7:24 http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John7:24&version=NKJV

Which means we need to know what the correct judgements are in the first place. That means not following clichés, such as that all sins are equal.

I disagree on your last for the reasons offered prior and above. On the first, I think it's speaking to something other than what I am speaking to and I'd say we absolutely should examine claims to moral truth by scripture and not by how they appear or appeal to us at first blush, which often has more to do with our interest than God's.

A quick google search brings me to this article, which does a fairly decent job explaining this.
https://www.christiancourier.com/articles/966-are-some-sins-greater-than-others

Thanks. I'll give it a look.

 

[Lon]

But you would be remiss in saying that therefore all sins are equal.

Avoid weighing sin?

Matthew 10:15 Luke 10:14 :think: