Reply To: Can the severity of a sin be learned from the severity of the punishment?

No you haven’t given me pause.
(as an aside, For some reason this thread does not show up by me in the recently active threads. That’s why I missed it last response. Now I had to search it up to see if you responded.)
Assuming that ???? ??? is not worse that ???? he becomes less of an ??????. Absolutely.
I’m not so sure that’s true though.
I would understand from the ?”?/???? that ???”?is also worse than being ???? in which case he hasn’t really helped himself.
But I have no problem to say, if your rubric is correct, then he has lowered his sin level by actually being ???? her.
That’s exactly what the ?”? stated unambiguously
It’s worse to be ????? ?? ?? than to be ????
Mathematically that is the same as saying it’s better to be ???? then to be ????? ?? ??
Why would I hesitate to say that.? I’d just be quoting the ?”?!
(I just think In your example I couldn’t answer that because the details didn’t add up.)