for each of us deadly sins, only God knows it precisely. Because only he examines and explores the depths of the human hearts, which are unknown and covered for us.
There are, of course, some obvious and gross violations of the divine law, for which the consciousness of every unprotected man is extinguished and whose weight does not make it difficult for him to understand the most ignorant. On the other hand, it is equally certain that it depends also on the circumstances under which an offense was committed if it would be irreparably fatal for the person who committed it.
Has the Lord clearly not affirmed that whoever "was given much, is much sought after?" And he did not add, in order to make it more vivid and figurative, that the slave "do not bear the will of the master of the self, who has worthy of wounds, is shed a little"? (Luke 48). That the slave who did not know the will of his master, but his deeds are punishable, will accept a few whips? It also depends on the knowledge that each one received us, according to the favorable circumstances that God brought to him for illumination and spiritual cultivation. It also depends on the favorable conditions under which everyone was born and raised and educated. It also depends on the degree of grace given to it, and on the divine donations that it tasted and the progress in the Christian life that the grace to fulfill and from which it has ceased.
In other words, otherwise a Christian will be judged, and otherwise he will be considered a savage who did not know Christ nor ever taught the truth God revealed to us. And the same offense and sin that is deadly for the Christian, the barbarian may be judged by God excusable and worthy of forgiveness. According to the same rule, even Pharisees, who had not committed a violation of the mosaic law, are condemned, while the taxi which was ringed by him and his allies as guilty is justified.
There are, of course, some obvious and gross violations of the divine law, for which the consciousness of every unprotected man is extinguished and whose weight does not make it difficult for him to understand the most ignorant. On the other hand, it is equally certain that it depends also on the circumstances under which an offense was committed if it would be irreparably fatal for the person who committed it.
Has the Lord clearly not affirmed that whoever "was given much, is much sought after?" And he did not add, in order to make it more vivid and figurative, that the slave "do not bear the will of the master of the self, who has worthy of wounds, is shed a little"? (Luke 48). That the slave who did not know the will of his master, but his deeds are punishable, will accept a few whips? It also depends on the knowledge that each one received us, according to the favorable circumstances that God brought to him for illumination and spiritual cultivation. It also depends on the favorable conditions under which everyone was born and raised and educated. It also depends on the degree of grace given to it, and on the divine donations that it tasted and the progress in the Christian life that the grace to fulfill and from which it has ceased.
In other words, otherwise a Christian will be judged, and otherwise he will be considered a savage who did not know Christ nor ever taught the truth God revealed to us. And the same offense and sin that is deadly for the Christian, the barbarian may be judged by God excusable and worthy of forgiveness. According to the same rule, even Pharisees, who had not committed a violation of the mosaic law, are condemned, while the taxi which was ringed by him and his allies as guilty is justified.
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