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The Welcome to the Stone Choir podcast. I am Corey J. Mahler.

And I'm Woe.

Today's episode of Stone Quire is talking about the subject of whether all sins are equal.

And following on from that, whether we are permitted to judge the sins of another, what does it mean to judge, particularly when Scripture says judge not?

These are both things that you hear in the mouths of many Christians today.

Generally, they're liberal Christians who are trying to avoid controversy.

They're trying to avoid any sense of accusation or claiming that one person could possibly be worse

than another.

That's something that Protestants, a particular, are extremely allergic to.

So today what we're going to be going through is a series of verses straight from scripture.

This is basically going to be a long Bible study where we talk about the various

verses that make absolutely explicit that not all sins are equal, that not only are they not

equal in God's eyes, but that they are punished unequally as well. Like many of our episodes,

this is fundamentally an assault on the false doctrine of equality. There's no such thing before God at any point.

And we'll get into the details of what we mean,

because obviously there are counterarguments that some make

that we're going to demolish here,

in this case, dealing with the question of sin being equal.

First passage we're going to talk about today is from John 19. It's one that we've all

heard recently as we're just on the heels of Holy Week. So Pilate said to Jesus,

You will not speak to me? Do you not know that I have the authority to release you and authority

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