The Size of Sin

I am reading A. W. Pink's essays on "The Depravity of Man" which are very interesting but quite laborious to read since I must have a dictionary handy as some of the words are not in my vocabulary or even in common usage today. While reading the thought came to me that we have a tendency to rate or categorize various sins into "big" or "little" and "important" or "trivial" but the sin with the most consequences was the eating of a piece of fruit. It is willful disobedience that separates man from God, not the size of the sin as judged by man.