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To: hinckley buzzard

Realizing that compared to God, there is little difference in terms of sin between yourself and people like Hitler or Mao is the start of salvation. Only through the belief in the redemptive power of Christ do you even have a chance of being saved.

Lord, I am not worthy to receive you, but only say the word and my soul shall be healed.


5 posted on 03/07/2023 6:25:42 AM PST by Dundee (They gave up all their tomorrows for our today's.)
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To: Dundee

James 2:10-11 For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it. For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” If you do not commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

People have a tendency to compare ourselves with ourselves and pass judgment on ourselves by that standard. Thus we categorize in into different categories based on how bad we just the sin to be.

What seems to escape most people’s notice is that the issue with sin is not so much what sin we commit, but that any and all sin is an offense to the same holy God. That’s why breaking one of His commandments is essentially equivalent to breaking any other or even all of them.

It’s WHOSE Law we have violated, not what law.


6 posted on 03/07/2023 6:36:13 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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