Apologetics and Evidence

An idea often presented is that all sins are the same through the eyes of God. The problem with this is that it goes much deeper than that. Let’s examine the word of God… James 2:10 says, “For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it” (NIV). The phrase “all sins are the same” likely came from this verse. The question of whether all sins are the same or not lies in the usage of the word, “sin.”   James explains that  if you are a Law breaker  (meaning, if you break one of the 613 commandments found in the Law of Moses),  then you have sinned against God, thereby placing yourself in need of salvation . Jesus even takes these commands further and says that if you look at a woman with lust in your heart, then you are guilty of adultery (breaking the 7 th  Commandment; See Matthew 5:28). Again, in Matthew chapter 5, Jesus explains that murder (breaking the 6 th  Commandment) gets the same results as being ang...