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 2:1010For 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 9:2727And as 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 9:2828So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation. (Hebrews 9:28).