Who Are "The Jews" in the New Testament?

[KingJ]

according to Jesus words we are all murders and "mortal sinners", if you look at a woman with lust guess what you have sinned, if you hate your brother guess what you are a murder.

Matthew 5:28, "But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart."

1 John 3:15 Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him

I think I have corrected you fifty times on this half truth you keep pushing. When will you accept correction and stop teaching falsely?

Matt 5:28 = adulterous thoughts are sinful, Matt 5:32 = do not divorce unless there is actual sexual immorality.

Matt 5:28 = venial sin, Matt 5:32 = mortal sins, both Matt 5:28 and Matt 5:32 are in the "sin category" of adultery.

Likewise, 1 John 3:15 teaches that hatred is sinful and that hatred is spiritually related to murder. It does not mean that hating someone and physically murdering an innocent person are identical in gravity, consequences, or punishment.

Scripture distinguishes between sins. Jesus spoke of the "greater sin" (John 19:11). The Law prescribed different penalties for different offenses. Paul distinguishes sins that exclude people from the Kingdom from lesser daily failings that Christians continually repent of. If all sins were literally equal, there would be no such thing as greater or lesser judgment.

A man who momentarily struggles with anger has sinned and should repent. A man who deliberately plans and murders an innocent person has also sinned and should repent. Both are sinners, but it is irrational to pretend the two acts are equal in severity.

The point Jesus is making in Matthew 5 is that sin begins in the heart. He is not abolishing distinctions between thoughts, words, and actions. If He were, then adultery in the heart would carry the exact same earthly consequences as physically committing adultery, which Scripture never teaches.

So yes, hatred is sinful. Yes, lust is sinful. But no, having a sinful thought is not the same thing as physically carrying out murder or adultery. They belong to the same category of sin, but Scripture repeatedly shows degrees of guilt, degrees of judgment, and degrees of punishment.

And, as stated above, those in unrepentant mortal sin are living on a knifes edge with God.

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Question for you Dave, please answer with a simple Yes or No.

When Paul says in Rom 7:15 that he still battles with sins, is he referring to sins like arranging the murder of Christians, rape, murder and pedophilia?