2006-12-21 09:27:11 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No, people don't always get their just desserts. There is no posthumous judgment. There is only human justice, and human justice is flawed. Still, it's all we have, and it's better than chaos.
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2006-12-21 09:29:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
You ask:
"Do people really get what they deserve?
Good or bad, I mean.
Always here on Earth?
Or sometimes only after death?"
My Reply:
From other people? .. Sometimes.
From God? ... Never.
You see ...
No matter how good we may try to be, we can never measure up to God's perfect standards without His HELP.
He doesn't owe that to us, but chooses to help those who try their hardest to qualify to be in His family, due to true love & appreciation for Him & His provisions for us, not the least off which is Christ's Sacrifice.
Also, No matter how attrocious a person might choose to be, they are not treated in kind by God. Even though he may allow others to cause them harm & agony, it does not come from Him. When that one dies, he is not tortured, but merely becomes non-existant. He would have to be saddistic to keep them alive in order to torture them, don't you think? Would you want to worship or have to rely on someone like that?
What REALLY Is Hell?
http://watchtower.org/e/20020715/article_02.htm
Death--Can We Understand It?
http://watchtower.org/e/20050815/article_01.htm
I think you might benefit from considering the reasons behind suffering , as well as what happens to those involved in the cause of it ...
Why So Much Suffering and Injustice?
- An Example - What Went Wrong?
- Why So Long?
- God Soon to Intervene
http://watchtower.org/e/pr/index.htm?article=article_06.htm
Will God Overlook Our Weaknesses?
http://watchtower.org/library/g/2002/11/8/article_01.htm
Does God Really Care About Us? :
- An Earth Free From Suffering
- How Can We Know There Is a God?
- God Informs Us about His Purposes
- The Wonderful Gift of Free Will
> Why God Has Permitted Suffering <
- What Has Been the Result of Rebellion?
- God's Purpose Moves Toward Fulfillment
- How We Know We Are in 'the Last Days'?
* The Marvelous New World of God's Making *
- The New World's Foundation Now Being Formed
http://watchtower.org/e/dg/index.htm
*The Marvelous New World of God's Making
- Righteousness Replaces Wickedness
- Perfect health Restored
- The Dead Return
- A Truly Peaceful World
- Earth Transformed Into a Paradise
- Undoing the Past
http://www.watchtower.org/library/dg/article_10.htm
Yes -- God's Kingdom will More than make up for all the suffering mankind has endured!
Life in a Peaceful New World
- How It Is Possible for You!
http://www.watchtower.org/library/t15/peaceful.htm
2006-12-22 12:35:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on their outlook on life-what they think is right and wrong. I think that only people who are oblivious to the world don't get what they deserve because of how they feel towards it. But when people do get what they deserve, it's on Earth (that's what I believe). I think that people who deserve goodness but don't seem to get it, actually do benefit from not getting it because it makes them a better person, so then they do get what they deserve. I hope this makes sense.
2006-12-21 09:36:36 · answer #3 · answered by Death.Note.fan 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. God says that we all sin fall short of the Glory of God. He says that in spite of that He loves us and if we accept His love and forgiveness and agree to be like Him and allow Him to change then He will forgive the sin and save us as it pleases Him. I don't know about you but when I think of the mean things I've done and thought and the disregard and selfishness I have shown to others I know that I do not deserve the love of God and am even more grateful for it and His promise to change me and make me more like Him.
2006-12-21 09:32:20 · answer #4 · answered by bess 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Deserving has nothing to do with anything. Although I will say that in the long run if you do what's wrong eventually it probably will catch up with you. Either the world or your concious will make you miserable.
2006-12-21 09:34:13 · answer #5 · answered by Big R 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, at least here on earth, many people get away with murder, and are even rewarded for their bad deeds. from a religious point of view, it makes sense: if everybody got punished for being bad, we would all be good out of fear, whereas the true purpose of any religion worth its salt is to make us be good out of a true desire to be good.
2006-12-21 09:31:21 · answer #6 · answered by niko 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my belief would be no. Some may. Unfortunately. HOwever, The definition of grace is to get what you do not deserve.
2006-12-21 09:34:07 · answer #7 · answered by epaphras_faith 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
some people....usually rich people....never get what they seserve here on earth..
They must get it later....
"it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God"
2006-12-21 09:30:15 · answer #8 · answered by Allen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
regardless how well it seems an unbelievers life is-unless they turn to God and accept their salvation through Christ they will be judged, whether end times come before or after their death.
2006-12-21 09:31:47 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing just happens, all things work out for the good of those who love GOD
2006-12-21 09:31:43 · answer #10 · answered by jbokande 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋