And once
again - it depends on
GRAVITY of sin.
You always
ignore important points and then
re-argue an issue.
As I already showed you,
John states that there is sin that causes
DEATH (John 17:20-23) -
Spiritual death. Whereas
less serious sin (venial)
damages our relationship with God -
deadly sin (mortal) actually
SEVERS it.
So -
NOT everyone who dies in sin is
lost.
Pure Catholic nonsense. The only deadly sin is unbelief.
When it comes to the issue of salvation, ALL SIN IS SIN. Salvation is not determined by who did more good than bad, in God's sight
He could not allow even ONE SIN where big or small in His presence and that's where works salvation really fails. While the severity when it comes to physical punishment is not equal, however
it takes only ONE SIN to break the whole Law (James 2:10). Romans 3:10-19 declares that all have sinned and because of that, they've fallen short of the glory of God and they are guilty before God. Also, when Jesus died on the cross He died for ALL sins no matter how big or small. And since salvation can never be merited or earned (Romans 4:5, Ephesians 2:8-9), when a believer sins they do not lose their salvation, however they are miserable and are instead chastised by God (Hebrews 12:5-6).
Putting sins in neat little categories I convenient but unbiblical.
In the Catechism of the Catholic Church is found this description of mortal sin: “For a sin to be mortal, three conditions must together be met: ‘Mortal sin is sin whose object is grave matter and which is also committed with full knowledge and deliberate consent.’” According to the Catechism, “Grave matter is specified by the Ten Commandments.” The Catechism further states that mortal sin “results in the loss of charity and the privation of sanctifying grace, that is, of the state of grace. If it is not redeemed by repentance and God’s forgiveness, it causes exclusion from Christ’s kingdom and the eternal death of hell.”
The Bible states that God will be just and fair in His punishment of sin and that on the day of judgment some sin will merit greater punishment than others (
Matthew 11:22,
24;
Luke 10:12,
14). But the fact is that all sin will be punished by God. The Bible teaches that all of us sin (
Romans 3:23) and that the just compensation for sin is eternal death (
Romans 6:23). Over and against the concepts of mortal and venial sin, the Bible does not state that some sins are worthy of eternal death whereas others are not. All sins are mortal sins in that even one sin makes the offender worthy of eternal separation from God.
In both cases of mortal and venial sin, forgiveness of the given transgression is dependent upon the offender making restitution of some type. In Roman Catholicism, this restitution may take the form of going to confession, praying a certain prayer, receiving the Eucharist, or another ritual of some type. The basic thought is that in order for Christ’s forgiveness to be applied to the offender, the offender must perform some work, and then the forgiveness is granted. The payment and forgiveness of the transgression is dependent upon the offender’s actions.
Is this what the Bible teaches regarding the payment for sin? The Bible clearly teaches that the payment for sin is not found in or based upon the actions of the sinner. Consider the words of
1 Peter 3:18, “For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit.” Take note of the wording, “Christ also died for sins once for all.” This passage teaches that for the person who is believing in Jesus Christ, all of his or her sins have been taken care of on the cross. Christ died for all of them. This includes the sins the believer committed before salvation and the ones he has committed and will commit after salvation.
The Bible does teach (
Galatians 6:7 and
8) and (
2 Samuel 11-20) that when a Christian gets involved in sin, he or she may reap temporal, physical, emotional, mental and/or spiritual consequences. But the believer never has to reacquire God’s forgiveness due to personal sin because God’s Word declares that God’s wrath toward the believer’s sin was satisfied completely at the cross.
