Does Cosby Deserve The Same Grace That Roof Got?

For the sake of argument, let's agree that being gay and monogamous, maybe even loving one person of your same sex enough to possibly commit yourself to them forever, is a sin even though the bible warns about same sex, not same sex marriage exactly.

So many of the people who invoke the Holy Bible of Christianity for the sake of rebuking abortion and homosexuality reject the rest of the same bible when it focuses on the call of Grace and forgiveness.  For a simple minded person like me, that means to think on Grace and focus on forgiveness before judgment finds me needing them for myself.

If you were one of those people who came to the rescue of America's former favorite father Bill Cosby like R&B singer Jill Scott did, you are likely to be needing Grace and forgiveness from the claimants who've called themselves Cosby's victims for a long time since they are looking more like victims than opportunists with each passing day.

I have chosen to refrain from detailed contribution on this topic because accusations are a really sad reason for adding to the destruction of a human life.  Guilty or not, Cosby deserves the same march towards conviction, settlement or absolution that every other accused universally beloved date rape drugger deserves. When you say that out loud, it sounds like the reason we don't want to touch this one. If not guilty, we are disrupting our own childhood by destroying Bill.  If found guilty of this, Cosby at least deserves what that Penn State rapist, Jerry Sandusky got- or what we wish we could give to all of those Catholic ministers who  got away with abusing young boys.

I just angered myself with the thought of these forms of hideous sins and our relative lack of unified outrage, which reflects as denial to me.  Are we really more agitated by the marriage commitment of homosexuals than we are with Bill? Based upon our opening agreement, sin is still sin for now, however, rape like Bill is accused of doing feels like a lower form of  sin when I imagine the outwardly destructive things man does towards man versus the personal sins we do to ourselves or with consenting adults. This Cosby crap is upsetting like child molestation but maybe even more sadistic when you imagine someone willing to incapacitate and then violate an unconscious person.  While also distorted,  necrophilia seems more dignified in that the corpse doesn't have to live with the pain of the violation forever.

Grace and forgiveness are screaming in my ear to relax and release.  Take a few deep breaths. Wait on a firm conviction first.

Terror at a Boston marathon, a Colorado movie theater or a South Carolina church service are horrific sins, but  are also NOT UNworthy of forgiveness. Since the Bible declares that all do sin and fall short of the glory, it indirectly suggests that we all have an equal need for His Grace. Human guilt has a way of creating a barrier between the forgiveness we desperately need because all of our guilt gets manifested when we approach that final crossing towards the Grace for an overcoming life, not just for salvation when we die.  Its at this moment when most people look down  at the tattered bridge before them and don't trust it enough to step out towards living Grace, afraid that it might give way on them before they make it across.

Crossing the bridge of judgement requires forgiving yourself.

Those who step out  eventually recognize that they are traversing across the bridge called Guilt that separates man from the sin we do and the forgiveness that fixed it all.  If you focus on the judgement beneath you and not the Grace before you, you will fall, prey to your own sins and be forced to climb your battered body back to the top complete with your new found fear and scars, just to rejoin the increasing crowd of the fearful.

These are the forgiven believers that stand fearfully frozen by guilt while screaming judgement's at those who chase onward because they are afraid to chase for Grace themselves.


Unbelief Is The Worse Of All Sins

Faith is a Grace journey that junctions at this cross bridge where fearful believers gather for forgiveness. No one whose courage carries them to the other side will ever look back on those yet to make it and find the heart to judge the rapist or the raped; the terrorist or those damaged by terror. His open arms of Grace usher us to step out in faith viewing all sin as nothing more than guilt's burden strapped to the back of the redeemed,  Standing next to Him on the good side of Grace compels us toward this same view one to another.

So fret not Bill Cosby and those who falsely judge him before time.  Judging and date rape drugging may never outrage like gay marriage does, and are also not the worst sin of them all.  Unbelief (atheism, agnosticism)is the one sin you don't want to die with.

By faith- everything else is forgiven.