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Punished for your sins?`
Does God punish you if you sin, or if you are planning on sinning.
Like if i know i'm going to cheat on a test, or if i already have, will God punish me by making something bad happen to me, or by makeing me get a bad grade or soemting along those lines?
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God will not punish you BEFORE you do it, because you always have the choice of not doing it. now after you do it. yes. he may not get to it right away, but he will. but if just dont do it. don't worry about it. hope this helped.
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according to the christian relligion, if you have accepted christ into your heart you can ask for your sins to be forgiven, and he will erase all of them. i am not aware of god punishing people for sinning or planning to sin, however, although christ forgives you for all your sins it isnt meant ot be used as a "well i can sin because god will forgive me". but i havent heard of any instances where people have been punished because they sinned.
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If you are asking in reference to the biblical God, then punishment is something reserved for evildoers who are eternally damning themselves in choosing to be continually against all that God stands for. God is love, there is no fear in love, and punishment is about fear and not love. If you choose to walk away from love, then you place yourself in fear of punishment. Get it? God did not create you for punishment. However, your free will can take you away from the rules of love, and out of the protective boundaries those rules impose. There are consequences in life for everything. The fact that gravity exists will cause water to run out of your cup, should you hold it upside-down. It is not a punishment that gravity exists, it is a scientific law. There are moral laws in this world, also. Stray from them and you take your chances. God tests us, but does not tempt us to do evil. You literally are being tested to see how much you know on a school subject. A grade is a mark that has meaning only if it is accurately representative of what you know. Getting a false mark by cheating, is taking something you did not earn, it is telling a lie about what you know. God is not wishing you to live in guilt. Guilt is remorse over what one has done. Better to avoid doing that thing and feel good about oneself. You are punishing yourself by telling yourself that the only way you can make the grade is to lie or cheat. This is cheating yourself of the power to actually believe that you can earn a good grade honestly. God knows that you are able to do good. Do you?
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If you're not caught, you'll be punished forever through guilt, so yes definitely God will punish you. Not necessarily directly through something bad happening, but in more of an indirect way. It's always best not to cheat. No matter what happens in your life or how bad you think you'll do, you'll always regret having cheated if you do. One awful test grade isn't going to destroy your life. Worst case scenario you'll have to take the class over again. That's not a big deal and it will teach you a lot to have to go through something like that. The guilt will always be with you for what you did if you cheat and you may even become disposed to cheating and start doing it all the time. There is no reason in the world to cheat. If something is wrong, talk to your teacher about it, they may help you out. Teachers can be surprisingly understanding. Plus, you have no idea how you will do anyway. You could end up doing really well and not have needed to cheat. You never know. Take your chances and try it without cheating. I really hope that you choose to do the right thing and remain as honest of a person as you can. Good luck on your test. :)
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Well, it all depends on what you believe. Some people don't even believe in God. Some people believe in Karma (what goes around comes around or what you do will come back to you).
Personally, I think God probably won't punish you, but there are consequences. First, you may be caught and punished. Second, you will always know you didn't earn that grade and it will either be something you're proud of or something you wish you could change. I'm betting that when you're older and you have a child of your own, you won't want to have to face that child asking 'have you ever cheated, Mom/Dad?' Third, you won't know the material and that can have consequences in your future. It's the natural consequence of cheating. You cheat yourself out of an education.
None of us can prove that God exists, that he's watching us, or that he tallies sins and doles out retribution. You have to decide for yourself whether it's worth the risk.
Sabine
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God doesn't always punish right away and he doesn't always punish so dramatically that you'll be able to tell. You may get caught cheating, but that'll be your punishment. If you confess what you did and ask forgiveness, you're in the clear. But remember, you have to be sincere, you can't just do whatever you want and then ask forgiveness and expect to be fine all the time.
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