Some will say that whether you steal one small candy bar from Wal-Mart - or you rob a bank of a million dollars - to God their is no difference as sin is sin.
Others will say that if you commit a horrendous crime - say extreme abuse of a child - there is a special place in Hell for you.
So do you believe that God differentiates our sin - or is that classification reserved for our limited thinking?
Open for discussion
See what you think of the Bible references in this excert from:
His By Grace--"John Gill: A Body of Doctrinal & Practical Divinity"-Doctrinal Book 7, Chapter 10
the degrees of this punishment;
for it seems such there will be since wicked men will be judged, and so punished, according to their evil works, whether more or fewer, greater or lesser.
But then these cannot be understood of the punishment of loss;
one cannot lose more nor less than another;
all are equally excluded from the presence and communion of God and of Christ, and of the Spirit;
and from the company of angels and saints, and from the kingdom of heaven and the glories of it: but can only be said of the punishment of sense;
some are lesser sinners and others greater;
some are only guilty of original sin, and not of actual transgressions, at least of very few, and so are deserving of a milder punishment only, as before observed;
and of actual transgressions, some are guilty of more, and of more heinous ones;
see #Joh 19:11 and their guilt and punishment are in proportion to them; some are attended with greater aggravations, and so are deserving of a greater punishment;
The Soldiers Mock Jesus
…10 So Pilate said to Him, “Do You refuse to speak to me? Do You not know that I have authority to release You and authority to crucify You?”
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Jesus answered, “You would have no authority over Me if it were not given to you from above. Therefore the one who handed Me over to you is guilty of greater sin.”
12 From then on, Pilate tried to release Him, but the Jews kept shouting, “If you release this man, you are no friend of Caesar. Anyone who declares himself a king is defying Caesar.”…
some are done in ignorance, and others against light and knowledge; one knows his master's will and does it not, and so deserves to be beaten with many stripes;
and another knows it not, and yet does things worthy of stripes, and therefore to be beaten with few stripes, #Lu 12:47.
Be Ready for Service
…46 The master of that servant will come on a day he does not expect and at an hour he does not anticipate. Then he will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the unbelievers.
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That servant who knows his master’s will but does not get ready or follow his instructions will be beaten with many blows.
48 But the one who unknowingly does things worthy of punishment will be beaten with few blows. From everyone who has been given much, much will be required; and from him who has been entrusted with much, even more will be demanded.…
Some have had the advantage of a written law, the law of Moses, as the Jews had, and this explained with the sanctions of it;
when others, as the Gentiles, had only the light of nature and the law of it to guide them;
and as both will be judged according to their different laws, so will they be punished in a different manner, #Ro 2:12.
God's Righteous Judgment
…11 For God does not show favoritism.
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All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law.
13 For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but it is the doers of the law who will be declared righteous.…
Some have had the advantage of a preached gospel, and have despised it, and have been disobedient to it, which is an aggravation of their condemnation; so that it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon, for Sodom and Gomorrah, than for them, #Mt 11:20,21.
Woe to the Unrepentant
19 The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look at this glutton and drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is vindicated by her actions.”
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Then Jesus began to denounce the cities in which most of His miracles had been performed, because they did not repent.
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“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.…