Are All Sinners?

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Once in this country there was a game that used to be played with bows and arrows. A man had to shoot ten arrows through a hoop some distance away.
If he missed one he was called a "sinner." If he missed more than one, or all of them, still he was called by that same name, a "sinner."
God says: "For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all." James 2:10. And, "It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment." Hebrews 9:27.
Is there no hope then for the human race? Praise God, there is, for in the very next verse we read: "So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many." Hebrews 9:28.