Personal anecdote: a young woman used 'all sin is the same' to equate fornication with stealing a pencil, which prompted Mike's investigation of this doctrine.

When Mike was around 19-20, a young woman who had engaged in premarital sex told him the experience was 'no different than stealing a pencil' because all sin is the same. This struck him as obviously false and led him to study the topic. He notes that 1 Corinthians 6 specifically identifies sexual sin as a unique category: it is a sin against one's own body, whereas other sins are committed 'outside the body.' The union of two people carries a gravity that makes sexual sin outside marriage particularly destructive.