Person B

Today has been the philosophical talks day. I don't even know how it all came up, but the gist of the debate was the relevance of act in terms of sinning. For instance, in the terms of sex. The question is, what about sex outside of marriage that is the sin? Is it the act of physical exchange, and giving of yourself that is the sin? I don't think so. I think the sin of the act has nothing to do with the fact that you are having sex, but that you are knowingly and willingly doing someting that God does not intend for us to do. The intimacy of sex, the sharing of bodily fluids, for which the biological intention is to reproduce, is of course very important. Also, the emotional aspects of the act of sex play a huge role. However, are things indicidant of a severity of the sin, or simply aspects which are meant to remind us of the tolls of the act. It is an act which involves all three elements of humans, our bodies, our minds, and our souls. However, the positive and negative outcomes of the act are either the rewards or consequence of use of the gift. I still believe that sin is as simplistically as it can be understood, is the act of going against God. Whether it is a blatant action, or a sinful thought, God knows and sees them all, and forgives them all equally.

This of course sparked another topic. Does God hold one sin higher than the other? If you believe that the action that comits sin is what's important, then yes, One sin can be held more severely than another. If it is in fact the act that is the sin, then the effects on not only yourself, but on others as well, could allow for varying degrees of sinning. But the problem I have with that is that it leaves no room for the uniqueness of each and everyone of us, and the exteremly different struggles we survive, or succumb to. I mean, is it fair to so egocentrically judge acts of others? Only the individual can even begin to comprehend the levels of spiritual warfare behind each other their struggles.

And then I thought, how can any sin logically be held higher than another. Take this example. Say Person A lives as blameless a life as any one could humanly. Accepted Jesus in their first words, and lived as sinlessly, and lovingly as the possibly could, and brought countless people to Jesus. When they die they will go to the same Heaven, and witness the same God, and experience the same amount of love, admiration, and awesome greatness of God, as Person B. Even if Person B murders 838,902 people in the span of their life, rape, pillage, destroy, and sin openly on a regular basis. If in their dying thoughts, Person B truly, absolutely, and entirely repents, and Give their life to Jesus, will that person not go to the same Heaven as the first?

If this is true, then Person A's sins, though signifacntly less numerous or notorious, are worth just as much as all of the sins of Person B. How then, can his sins be worse or more heavily weighed?