Originally Posted by Old_Toot
Originally Posted by TF49
A viewpoint:

A sin might be seen as a marble.... a little sin like telling a lie....., it might be a cantaloupe, a bigger sin like robbery..... it might be a basketball, a more vicious sin like murder. All sin .... but coming in different sizes and having different effects.

But, it is a black marble of sin.... a black cantaloupe or and a black basketball.

All sin, big and small is all black.


No argument there.

What does The Book advise about blasphemy?




The follow-on thought: At judgment day, one standing before God can be seen as holding a ball.... representing all,the sins and misdeeds of that one’s life. Some are standing there with little black balls and some are there with huge black balls.

The one with a little ball might think...... “Ok, I have only a little black ball and look at the others with very large black balls” ....

Then they find that God is ..... so-to-speak.... judging not on the size of the black balls of sin, but on the color of the balls.

It is a no go if your ball is black.

The tax collector said: “Lord Jesus, have mercy on me, a sinner.” Jesus said he went home “justified.”