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Pastimes : Ask God -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: mark silvers who wrote (27218)	9/25/1999 5:58:00 PM
From: IN_GOD_I_TRUST	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 39621

Mark, You can not one sin worse than another, no one can. Let's take an example, Sin 1: A parent telling a kid that there is a Santa Claus, and all the lies that go along with it... Sin 2: A parent murdering his/her kid.. This seems simple right, the murder is worse. Well lets look at it a little more closely... Let's take the murder. The child murdered might be going to heaven to be with God. Thats wonderful. And if the parent did not murder them, the parent was going to abuse the child so badly that child was going to have suffered immensly and be ruined for life. The child in turn can commit a multitude of sins, maybe murder himself if he stayed alive. Now the little white lie of Santa Claus. Eventually the child has to find out that Santa Claus is a lie. Usually a parent has a hard time doing it and the child finds out elsewhere. But let's even say the parent tells them, either way! So now the child finds out and says, "Daddy, don't tell me you were lying about the Easter Bunny and the tooth fairy too? The parent now has too explain. Now the kid says in the back of his mind, what else have my parents being lying about to me also? See the damage! That kid might have a problem trusting his parents and go the wrong way, commit many sins because of this, even when the parents are trying to do the right thing in the future, because of some distrust from the past. Isn't it true if some lies to, you look at them a lot harder the next time they tell you something? How much potential damage did that little white lie do? And what are the results of the little white lie for a lifetime? See my point, nothing is simple. We try to look at things the simple way when a sin can cause a lot more problems now and down the line that we can't see, and in turn can cause many more sins. We can not see or judge the depth of any sin. Only God can. And he judges all sins to be the same, wrong! Ask him when you meet him why he does it this way.... God Bless, Steve