The worst sin

This is an opinion piece. Easy to tell, since sin is sin, and no one sin is worse than another - any of them will condemn a person to eternal damnation.

However, I believe that today, there are sins that have a worse effect than others. The simple answer to this is things like murder and rape - which are universally accepted as really bad. However, I'm going to go a bit deeper.

"I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians.

Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."

- Mahatma Gandhi

The way I see it, Gandhi was right. Jesus stated the most important commandment is: “ 'YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.' This is the great and foremost commandment. The second is like it, ‘YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.’ On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets.”

Christians today so often do not do that. You look all around, and see pastors filled with greed or arrogance, churchgoers present only to increase their social standings, self-proclaimed Biblical scholars seeking to show the rest the errors of their ways. None of these actions show love - for God or for one another. 

All these actions do is drive others AWAY from Christ by driving them away from Christianity.


So in my mind, the greatest sin is one committed the most by Christians themselves: failure to show love - to God or to others. 


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