A common accusation against someone like me, who both teaches Universal Salvation and argues for more permissive attitudes towards Sexual Morality, is often that we don't take Sin seriously enough. How can I justify Paul saying "all have Sinned" if there are so many things I don't think are sinful?
But to me, it's mainstream Christianity that isn't taking real Sin seriously enough when they tend to focus on the same kinds of things the Pharisees focused on.
Jesus said the greatest Commandment is to Love God with all your heart mind body and soul, and the second greatest is to love your neighbor as you Love yourself, and He said those were the whole of The Law. James and Paul in both Romans & Galatians also repeated that the second greatest commandment is the gist of the Law. The greatest Sin is failure to Love, and in a way that's what all real Sin comes down to. And I certainly fail to Love God and my neighbor constantly, I don't need a laundry list of specific actions to tell me I'm a Sinner, I just need to look at my own heart.
So I am opposing Sin when I oppose the aspects of Traditional Christianity that lead to justifying Hate.
The epistle known as 1 John in chapter 4 verses 7 and 8 says that God is Love, and that everyone who loves is Born of God and that everyone who Loveth not Knoweth not God. Chapter 3:14 says everyone who loveth not his Brother abideth in Death. This Epistle is not dividing humanity into two categories, but listing two categories into which every human has fallen.
Chapter 4 verse 10 and up clarified we are saved not because We Loved God but because God Loved us and gave His Son as the Atonement for our Sins.
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