Are all sins equal in the sight of God?

Time to break that wheel

Fellow Pilgrims,

We’ve all heard the phrase; “All sins are equal in the sight of God.”

But… are they? The statement suggests that God is outside of justice, and it can leave us reeling at the thought that God might ignore the horror of very grave sin. What kind of God would count a white lie as an evil equal to genocide?

This well-worn statement does not …