Truly Miles.

Here's another one:

Matt.5:19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

Least commandments? That implies that they aren't as important as a greater commandment. And since sin is nothing more than disobedience of commandments then sin too would need to be hierarchical.

Where this notion that all sin is equal comes from I'm not sure. But if it states that in the Bible then just add it to the very long list of contradictions and inconsistencies of these stories, because as you've already pointed out, these stories even have Jesus himself speaking of a 'lesser' and 'greater' sin.

So would Jesus have been unaware that all sins are equal?

Clearly this religion is riddled with contradictions and inconsistencies.

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Moreover, Matthew 5:19 also flies in the very face of FORGIVENESS and the idea that the blood of Jesus will wash away your sins and your sins will be forgiven.

This is because in Matthew 5:19 Jesus speaks of people being 'greater' and 'lesser' in heaven based on the sins they have committed. Thus they cannot have been fully forgiven their sins if they are going to be continually held against them even in heaven.

Clearly heaven itself is not going to be the "paradise" that many Christians would like, because it's obviously going to contain a hierarchical society just like on Earth where some people are deemed to be "Greater" and some people are deemed to be "lesser".

This flies in the face of the idea that Jesus washes away all your sins and forgives them since he's clearly speaking here of holding them against a person in heaven.

Also, according to the Christians there's no way that said person could have gotten to heaven without having accepted Jesus as their Lord and Savior which qualifies a person for having their sins washed away and forgotten.

So these stories are just riddled with contradiction, conflicts, and obviously made up lies.

There can be no question about it.

They simply shoot themselves in their own foot far too many times over.

Abra is doing what's called "Sowing discord" Not a good thing as we can see here.

Every post I see this guy/gal? make is a direct attack. Fortunately the good book tells us what to do about wolves such as this one.

Titus 3:10
Warn a divisive person once, and then warn him a second time. After that, have nothing to do with him.



Hard to do on a message board though.

That an extremely easy ideal to live by.

But it can also be extremely problematic.

Suppose that a person is gay. They do not judge the sexual orientation and behaviors for others, and would have them to the same unto them.

They can live their half of this ideal with no problem, but what happens in reality?

Well, in realities the other people who claim to be supporting this same philosophy DO NOT adhere to it themselves. Because they make fun of the gay person, ridicule and belittle their lifestyle, and even condemn them as being "sinners" who are refusing to repent their "evil ways".

In other words, it doesn't to a person much good to "
Do unto others as you would have them do to you.", if the other people aren't also following this same philosophy.

I doubt that anyone would want to be ridiculed and judged to be a "sinner" based on their personal innate desires and lifestyle. Yet many people who claim to adhere to the ideal, "Do unto others as you would have them do to you." do indeed ridicule, judge, and condemn other people to be 'sinning' in the eyes of God.

So where this ideology fail Miles, is often with the most devout religious people who are attempting to shove their ideals onto everyone else in direct conflict with the ideal of, "Do unto others as you would have them do to you."

So the problem lies with religious hypocrisy and nowhere else in this particular case.