But what you say would make NO SENSE whatsoever to a first century Jew who followed Jesus. The mentality is completely off.
Because I'm not a Jew, nor in the first century, and I care about neither. Neither do you, except to somehow use them to justify yourself.
You have to realize that sin encompasses a LOT more than just what you think it does. And no, not all sins are equal. they never were and never will be.
The Hebrew Scriptures (OT) list sins, transgressions and iniquities. They are all different and should not be lumped together into the same pot.
Sins are things you are trying to do right but fail in the attempt. (archery term to aim at the target but miss)
Transgressions are when you INTENTIONALLY disobey God. (much worse than sins)
Iniquities are the transgenerational effects and tendencies of your parents and grandparents sins and transgressions.
I don't care about your definitions either. Scripture says all sin is transgression of the law, and all unrighteousness is sin.
The law of Christ tells us what sin is today, which includes fornication, drunkenness, thefts, idolatry, etc...
Your refusal to answer a simple question that Scripture speaks of, is your own guilty conscience.
No man can be born of God and not of the devil, while committing the sin of fornication, drunkenness, idolatry, etc..
If you or I are sinning against God with the devil, neither of us are being saved and justified by Christ.
The reason you don't answer, is because I leave you no room to now pull out your back of tricks theology and definitions about what 'commit' is, or 'committing' is, or even what 'sin' is.
Which also I care nothing for, because neither does Jesus. Our theological seminaries do not save nor justify us while committing sin with the devil. It didn't help Adam nor Eve, nor Cain, nor Judas, nor even Lucifer himself.
The eternal consequences of all 3 are mitigated by the death of our Messiah.
You don't even know what that means. I use Scripture words to teach Scriptural doctrine of Christ. Jesus died for our sins. He did not die for our sinning.
No man repents of sinning for his name's sake, while thinking He died, so that they could be sinning under grace.
That is why the grace and cross of Jesus is blasphemed by the unbelievers.
The strength to change them into effective obedience is in His resurrection.
Which strength is not there while sinning against Him and His resurrection. The soul sinning is dead, and not alive to God.
No birth, no Spirit, no fellowship, nothing but the devil and the lust of this world like any other sinner on earth.
Christians sinning not only stinks like others, but stinks more to God, than others that don't name His name.
Salvation brings us thru adoption into the New Covenant. My wife and I raised 4 kids, and now we are helping to raise 2 adopted grandkids. Do they always do everything perfectly? No. Do they intentionally disobey sometimes? You bet. Does any of that have any bearing on whether or not they are my kids and grandkids? NO! ABSOLUTELY NOT!
You're not God.
And you're boldly printed words with exclamation is not the word of God.
And not sinning for the devil, is not doing everything perfectly. Mixing perfect living in the flesh with sinning for the devil, is the favorite play for self-justification.
Fornication is rebellion against God. Forgetting where our keys are is not.
Also, your kids don't save you, no matter how many you have.
Likewise, if we mess up, accidentally or intentionally, we are still HIS children and still saved. But just as my kids get disciplined, so do we.
Neither is sinning with the devil called messing up. That's child talk.
"Sorry, Mommy, I messed up."
God's chastisement is letting us separate ourselves from Him by sinning, and only a born son would know the difference, and be brought to repentance to be restored to his fellowship and salvation:
Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.
Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.
The chastisement of the Lord is not the common affects of sinning upon the mind and flesh of all sinners.
His chastisement is not having us suffer the 'morning after', like all sinners do.
And if you don't know the difference between being separated from God, to not know Him, because of sinning against Him, then you don't know Him, because you are still a sinner committed to sinning, and have not repented of sinning to be born of Him with power to become His righteous and holy son on earth.
Which don't include sinning for the devil.
The flesh of bones of Jesus is not sinning now today, nor more than he was in the days of His flesh.
I know Him, and I know as John says, I can't be sinning against Him in riotous living tonight, and still be born of Him and know Him.
All that matters is now with the Lord, and our last step on earth will either be doing righteously with Him, or sinning with the devil.
He paid the price just to make it our choice:
And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
