MEN ARE NOT GREATER SINNERS BECAUSE OF WHAT HAPPENS TO THEM.

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Do you rejoice when you see your brother suffer loss? Do you always attribute the loss to that brothers' sin and think that they are greater sinners because of what happens to them.

Well Jesus confirmed that men are not great sinners because of what happens to them but all men prior salvation are equally sinner and condemned before God. Check out the under listed verses:

(Luke 13:2-5 KJV) And Jesus answering said unto them, Suppose ye that these Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they suffered such things?  I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem? I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.

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