People make excuses for what others do, for example if their loved ones do something, they try to be lenient, but woe betide their enemies if they do same.
So Why do people have different scale for judging sin?

Omooba77:

People make excuses for what others do, for example if their loved ones do something, they try to be lenient, but woe betide their enemies if they do same.
So Why do people have different scale for judging sin?

They would not be evil if there judgement is Right and True and Balanced!

I think they just want to protect their own. Every adult knows what is good and bad.

Of course with different orientations, beliefs, understanding, priorities, there would be different measures but only one would matter at the end.

That of Jesus.

God bless.

Omooba77:
People make excuses for what others do, for example if their loved ones do something, they try to be lenient, but woe betide their enemies if they do same.
So Why do people have different scale for judging sin?

This is bad.

That is a natural thing. Animals always defend their own.
I was even thinking the thread is about the interdenominational selective labeling of what is sinful and what is not.

AntiChristian:


This is bad.

Bad......

Omooba77:
People make excuses for what others do, for example if their loved ones do something, they try to be lenient, but woe betide their enemies if they do same.
So Why do people have different scale for judging sin?

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People, since the fall of mankind are flawed and imperfect of themselves... "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" - Jeremiah 17:9

"For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God" - Romans 3:23

So, is the matter of people's judgment not then irrelevant? ... "For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another." - Psalm 75:6-7

"And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness." - Psalm 9:8 (Also Psalm 96:10, Psalm 96:13, Psalm 98:9)

xproducer:


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People, since the fall of mankind are flawed and imperfect of themselves... "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" - Jeremiah 17:9

"For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God" - Romans 3:23

So, is the matter of people's judgment not then irrelevant? ... "For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another." - Psalm 75:6-7

"And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness." - Psalm 9:8 (Also Psalm 96:10, Psalm 96:13, Psalm 98:9)

Nice Bible quotations....

Omooba77:
People make excuses for what others do, for example if their loved ones do something, they try to be lenient, but woe betide their enemies if they do same.
So Why do people have different scale for judging sin?

Because they obviously reject God's standard and Law, Jesus Christ, the one by whom Sin is defined and is to be judged.

SELFISHNESS.
GOD IS THE JUDGE IN ALL CIRCUMSTANCES, EVEN BETWEEN HUSBAND AND WIFE.

Omooba77:


Nice Bible quotations....

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I praise the Lord GOD for His most excellent word.

Omooba77:
People make excuses for what others do, for example if their loved ones do something, they try to be lenient, but woe betide their enemies if they do same.
So Why do people have different scale for judging sin?

Because they don't fear God. If you love and fear God, you will judge righteously, be it your love ones or not

delkuf:
Because they don't fear God. If you love and fear God, you will judge righteously, be it your love ones or not

Precisely!

delkuf:
Because they don't fear God. If you love and fear God, you will judge righteously, be it your love ones or not

You are right....

Omooba77:
Nice Bible quotations....

What Paul wrote in Romans 3 was not in reference to all humans but instead to the evil people, fools who reject God. This you can easily discover by researching the source of his many statements which are culled from various places in scripture.

■Beginning in Romans 3 vs 10 - 18, Paul quotes from various parts of scripture in his attempt to explain to his brethren that they were in fact the wicked and evil generation to the destroyed by God. Yes, at that point in time, God's plan was to destroy the rest of Israel — the Nation of Judah aka the Jews— and that plan was heralded by the coming of Jesus Christ. Below, we see that what Paul wrote in that passage was of the evil people who were against God.

■ Romans 3 vs 10 - 12 quotes Psalm 53 where David writes about the evil people who do terrible things.

1 Only fools think there is no God. People like that are evil and do terrible things. They never do what is right.
2 God looks down from heaven to see if there is anyone who is wise, anyone who looks to him for help.
3 But everyone has turned away from him. Everyone has become evil. No one does anything good. No, not one person!
4 Those who are evil treat my people like bread to be eaten. And they never ask for God’s help. Don’t they understand what they are doing? - Psalm 53 vs 1 - 3

The above passage clearly says that this prophecy was said of the evil people aka the fools who convinced themselves that God does not exist. You know this from reading verse 4 where God highlights the way evil people treat His people.
■ Romans 3 vs 13 a Paul references David's prayer against his enemies found in Psalm 5

8 Lord, show me your right way of living and make it easy for me to follow. People are looking for my weaknesses, so show me how you want me to live.
9 My enemies never tell the truth. They only want to destroy people. Their words come from mouths that are like open graves. They use their lying tongues to deceive others.[a]
10 Punish them, God! Let them be caught in their own traps. They have turned against you, so punish them for their many crimes. - Psalm 5 vs 8 - 10

■ Romans 3 vs 13 b quotes from Psalm 140 where David prays to God regarding the evil people

1 Lord, save me from people who are evil. Protect me from those who are cruel,
2 from those who plan to do evil and always cause trouble.
3 Their words are as harmful as the fangs of a snake, as deadly as its venom. Selah
4 Lord, save me from the wicked! Protect me from these cruel people who plan to hurt me.
5 These proud people are trying to trap me. They spread nets to catch me; they set traps in my path. Selah - Psalm 140 vs 1 - 5

■ Romans 13 vs 15 quotes from Proverbs 1 which is a warning against evil people

10 My son, those who love to do wrong will try to trick you. Don’t listen to them.
11 They will say, “Come with us. Let’s hide and beat to death anyone who happens to walk by.
12 We will swallow them whole, as the grave swallows the dying.
13 We will take everything they have and fill our houses with stolen goods.
14 So join us, and you can share everything we get.”
15 My son, don’t follow them. Don’t even take the first step along that path.
16 They run to do something evil, and they cannot wait to kill someone. - Proverbs 1 vs 10 - 15

■ Romans 13 vs 16 - 17 references Isaiah's writing on the state of the evil people, whose sins separate them from God

1 Look, the Lord’s power is enough to save you. He can hear you when you ask him for help.
2 It is your sins that separate you from your God. He turns away from you when he sees them.
3 That’s because your hands are covered with blood from the people you murdered. You tell lies and say evil things.
4 You can’t be trusted, even in court. You lie about each other and depend on false arguments to win your cases. You create pain and produce wickedness.
5 You hatch evil, like eggs from a poisonous snake. Anyone who eats the eggs will die. And if you break one of them open, a poisonous snake will come out. Your lies are like spider webs.
6 They cannot be used for clothes, and you cannot cover yourself with them. Your hands are always busy sinning and hurting others.
7 Your feet run toward evil. You are always ready to kill innocent people. You think of nothing but evil. Everywhere you go you cause trouble and ruin.
8 You don’t know how to live in peace. You don’t do what is right and fair. You are crooked, and anyone who lives like that will never know true peace. - Isaiah 59 vs 1 - 8

■ Romans 13 vs 18 references Psalm 18 where David writes of the evil people and the workings of their minds.

1 Deep in the hearts of the wicked a voice tells them to do wrong. They have no respect for God.
2 They lie to themselves. They don’t see their own faults, so they are not sorry for what they do.
3 Their words are wicked lies. They have stopped doing anything wise or good.
4 They make wicked plans in bed at night. They choose a way of life that does no good. And they never say no to anything evil. - Psalm 36 vs 1 - 4

As you can see, every single passage of Scripture that was quoted by Paul in that context was written in reference to people who do evil — the unrighteous. And of course, there are none righteous among the evil people for they have all sinned. After establishing his focus in the earlier verses, the evil people i.e. the unrighteous, in verses 19-20 Paul reiterates that the curse on the unrighteous cannot be removed right by the Law(of Moses) — they cannot be made righteous by following the Old Law.

In verse 21, Paul then posits that God has provided for the unrighteous(evil people) a path to redemption by which they can be made righteous and that path is the New Law(The Good News). Paul insists that God makes the unrighteous people righteous through their faith in Jesus Christ and He does so for all those who believe in Jesus Christ, verse 22. Again, Paul insists in verse 23 that all(the evil people aka unrighteous) have sinned and come short of the glory of God and can only be made righteous by following, not the old Law, but the new Law which offers the free gift of grace(Eternal Life). Paul also insists that the unrighteous are able to become righteous in God by becoming free from their sins through Jesus Christ. In verses 25-26, Paul then recapped by saying that God gave Jesus Christ a way to forgive the sins of people — the unrighteous aka sinners whom He came to call to repentance — by way of what Paul refers to as the blood sacrifice of Jesus Christ.

In all, the primary audience or focus of Paul's writing in Roman 3 were the unrighteous sinners in the land, ignoring the righteous people who equally existed at the time. As a matter of fact, at the time of Paul's writing of this epistle, the other disciples of Jesus Christ were probably righteous given they already obtained the Spirit of Truth for a companion long before this. Paul in no way meant this to say that there were absolutely no righteous individuals in the land. Rather, he focused his message on those who were listed as unrighteous and remained under God's curse from the Old Law, and yet to be set free from slavery to sin by Jesus Christ.