January 7, 20179 yr Preaching from Judges chapter 4 tomorrow and this just popped into my mind. Does God deliberately punish people on earth for sins they commit on earth?
January 7, 20179 yr I don't know if punish is the right word, but I definitely feel God has looked the other way a time or two and just let some stuff happen to me on occasion. :lol2:
January 7, 20179 yr I don't think so. My reasoning is that if he did this, he would definitely do so to those that are most evil and not just to some of them. Why would he pick and choose?
January 9, 20179 yr It depends on what you mean by punish? If someone murders someone, and they get caught and spend the rest of their life in jail, is that punishment? Or do you mean, if someone commits adultery, God punishes them by giving them cancer or something like that? If you're talking about the later, absolutely not.
January 9, 20179 yr I don't think so....hence the reason everyone has to answer at the end of this thing called life....cause in this life, things are much harder than in the afterworld, In this life, You're on your own....
January 9, 20179 yr I think so, yes. In a certain sense, my Catholicism binds me to that, but I think there is plenty to suggest that the answer is a definitive yes. "For you have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin: And you have forgotten the consolation, which speaketh to you, as unto children, saying: My son, neglect not the discipline of the Lord; neither be thou wearied whilst thou art rebuked by him. For whom the Lord loveth, he chastiseth; and he scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. Persevere under discipline. God dealeth with you as with his sons; for what son is there, whom the father doth not correct?" - Hebrews 12:4-7
January 9, 20179 yr It has to be that if indeed God does punish earthlings it is for their own good and in a merciful effort to have them change their behavior.
January 10, 20179 yr I think yes. There is certainly a biblical basis for it. And from a personal standpoint, carrying the guilt of a sin you've been hiding is torture.
January 10, 20179 yr Dang, @Randy Parker, now what was so wrong with my response it earned a dislike? :lol2:
January 10, 20179 yr Dang, @Randy Parker, now what was so wrong with my response it earned a dislike? :lol2: Sorry. I promise that was unintentional. When dislikes were introduced, I promised to give no more than one.
January 10, 20179 yr Sorry. I promise that was unintentional. When dislikes were introduced, I promised to give no more than one. #quotamet
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