# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_M rz 1861_S66
# AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

66 Theological Axioms.

10. "Omne peccatum, etiam minimum et cordiale, etiam in regenitis, natura sua et per se est mortale legaliter."

Every sin, even the smallest and one that lodges only in the heart, even one found in the regenerate, is by its nature and in itself deadly, when viewed according to the Law.

11. "Perniciosus est Sophistarum error, qui peccata distinguunt penes substantiam facti, non penes personam. Qui credit, idem et aeque magnum peccatum habet, ut incredulus; credenti tamen condonatur et non imputatur; incredulo retinetur et imputatur. Huic veniale, illi mortale est; non propter differentiam peccatorum, quod credentis peccatum minus, increduli majus sit, sed personarum. Credens enim fide statuit, peccatum, cum Christus se ipsum pro eo tradidit, sibi esse remissum. Itaque peccatum habens et peccans, tamen manet pius, contra incredulus impius."

"Therefore it is a harmful error that the Sophists distinguish sin secundum substantiam facti, that is, according to the works, as they are in themselves, and not according to whether the person is believing or unbelieving. A believer has just as great a sin as an unbeliever; yet it is forgiven the believer and not imputed, while it is retained and imputed to the unbeliever. And thus what is a venial sin to the believer is a mortal sin to the unbeliever — not because there is, as far as the sin itself is concerned, any difference, such that the believer's sin is smaller and lesser than the unbeliever's, but because there is a difference between the persons. For the believer holds it for certain, through faith, that his sin has been forgiven him for Christ's sake, since Christ Himself gave Himself up for it. Therefore, although he indeed has sin, he nevertheless remains a godly man; the unbeliever, by contrast, remains ungodly."

12. Si credimus, "non solum mala passiva, quae nobis irrogantur, in bonum cedunt, sed etiam activa, quae nos ipsi facimus."

For us who believe, "not only the misfortune that we suffer and that is inflicted on us by others, but also the evil that we ourselves do, must work together for good."

13. Est peccatum, quod est in et cum voluntate, etsi non semper a voluntate.

Sin is something that occurs in and with the will, even though it does not always proceed from the will.

14. Non omnia peccata sunt aequalia.

Not all sins are equal to one another.

15. "Peccare voluptate gravius est, quam peccare necessitate."

To sin from desire is a graver offense than to sin from necessity.

16. Omne animi vitium tanto conspectius in se crimen habet, quanto major, qui peccat, habetur.

Every sin is the more punishable, the higher the standing of the one who commits it.