Paradox: Luke 21:1-4

The paradox in our religion is that there is with Christianity no developed levels of sin, yet within the scriptures we find highly developed levels of offerings and repentance. the degree of sinfulness is determined by the individual yet the price of sacrifice is defined at length in the law. While our community continues to speak of Jesus as the fulfillment of the law this same community speaks of proportioned giving. The reason this widows offering was the greatest is because she gave it all. It is what Jesus did in his atoning sacrifice. Modern Christianity is rating sin effects of that sin in the sinners life rather than on the effects of salvation in the sinners life. For if I sin only once and realize His salvation it was the worst, most vile sin ever done; yet if I live a life of sin and regret and never reach out for salvation then my sin was nothing, for it lead me toward nothing; until salvation came to me I could not realize sin.