A few months ago I was at my church for a special event and overheard a conversation between a few of people. Their subject matter and the jest of their conversation intrigued me so much that I couldn’t help but to listen in.
They were talking about various people throughout history that had done very bad things; like Hitler and Charles Manson and so on. They were talking about how some people may have gone so far that they could not be reconciled back to God. The people talking believed that a person could step over an invisible line with the heinousness of their crimes and never come back, thus rendering themselves useless and unable to receive Gods grace and salvation. As I listened on I was wondering if it was the person that closed himself off from God, or was it God closing himself off from the person. I don’t believe it could be the latter because the bible says in John 3:16 that WHOSOEVER would believe in God would be saved. So it must be the person who cuts themselves off from God.
I myself don’t agree that “one” can not be saved. I think we can willfully ignore God and grow cold toward him but I do not believe one can go out of the range of Gods grace. I think we get this thinking as Christians and as society in a whole from the ranking of Sins. I myself am guilty of this because I think homosexuality is just gross, so I tend to judge gay men more harshly. I am definitely wrong in doing this, as their sin is no uglier than my sin of being judgmental of them in the first place. This next part may be harsh and sound whacked but; Hitlers holocaust, Mansons crimes, the Sudanese persecutions and my lustful thinking and your petty little sins are all the same.
There is no one sin greater than the other in Gods eyes.
There is no one sin or one person for that matter that God cannot forgive.
Dan the man out!!!!
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