Is it fair to let someone else pay for your sins?

Question

Put your hand on your heart, and tell me why its fair. Tell me why its not. Tell me if the overall rule of fairness should apply to anyone, anywhere.

Answer 1

Where are the Bible pounding Bubba Preachers?

I am shocked that someone hasn't quoted Paul's mumbo jumbo Jazz about Jesus' blood paying for all your sins;past, present, and future sins. Or, Peter saying if you Scream "Lord, Lord, Jesus is my saviour" , and then get baptized into the Catholic Church and all your sins will be forgiven.

Do you folks realize that you are following Jesus and the Bible closer than most organized religions?

Answer 2

I will say it is fair if the person paying for your sins is doing so willingly. This is very rare, but if it could be found, it means the person loves you real good to the point of death. The principal example of this kind of love can be seen from our Lord Jesus Christ that died for the sins of all of us on earth. And remember that NO other love can be as strong as this.

Also, I will like to say that the person paying for your sins must be someone that is not of your category (someone greater than you). This means that the person has a kind of power that you don't have and the person is trying to help you out through his own supernatural power that's beyond yours. An example is also that of Jesus Christ's death on the cross of calvary.

The last that I will talk about is that It will not be fair if you have to force someone to die for you because you have more power than the person. Meaning a kind of situation whereby the person does not have the power to disobey you than to obey you unwillingly and under compulsion. This, I will say, is opposite the one mentioned in second paragraph above.

Answer 3

It doesn't seem fair, does it.

I don't think it happens. We make our own situations, one way or another. Sometimes we get ourselves involved in something that we didn't see, and we get it for some reason. It may not be obvious, but maybe we did deserve some of it. However, payback is a ....

Somewhere along the line, the guilty pay for it, every single time. We may become aware of it, then again, we may not. But I believe in a Universe that returns to you what you dish out. I also believe in Deities who will make sure that justice is served.

I've seen it, many times, where it is not always obvious at first, but it is if you look at the nuances. The original impression that someone is getting away with something comes back to haunt them in abundance... subtly, deliciously, and with the proper amount of "twist" so the wait is worth it.

Answer 4

everything should be fair, whether it depends on who is behind you in line at the supermarket, creating fair deals with your friends, or being fair to the one you love.
to answer your question, i'd have to say no. It's not fair because if you did something wrong and they didn't do anything whatsoever at all then it's like you've lifted the world off of your shoulders and placed it on theirs. Believe me...it's wrong wrong wrong.
The only revenge is if somebody is being executed. That's it. They kill, they die. But in practically no other way can somebody recieve revenge if they did not stir it up themselves.
What i'm trying to say is: Why give someone else the blame when you know they're going to push it in the back of their mind? I mean, if wanted something settled it would be better to handle it on your own then give it to someone else, because what if they don't want to settle it or don't know what to do?
*mwa*

Answer 5

Do you think that you are a sinner ........... and what do you know about sins....... and how can you say that someone else can pay for your sins........... in this world you can give some bad name to some one , hurt some one but only for sometime you just cant do that forever , cuz everything moves with time so ........ no one else can really pay for some one else if we have to belive that there are thing s like sins in this world........but as we sow so shall we reap ......... we will have to clear our accounts of our good deeds and our bed deeds befrore we die .......... so relax. This world still keeps rotating the sun and every thing keeps comin around again

Answer 6

Vengence is mine sayeth the Lord. Someone else may suffer for your sin on this earth, but you are the only one that will pay for your own sins.

Knowing this, anyone who does me wrong, or does someone else wrong, if I feel I cannot control it, I don't have to, because God is in control.

For instance. My Aunt was shot and killed 22 years ago, we all loved here dearly, I thought she was paying for someone elses sin, but she is not, she is in Heaven safe, and though I would like her to be with me, she is still OK, that man will pay for his sins and likely already has. She did not have to pay for them because in the end, God will see that those who harm others and do not come to repentance will find themselves in the lake of fire which bruneth with fire and brimstone.

If the man who killed my Aunt did not come to the Lord with a rependant heart before he passed away, then he to will burn in the lake of fire.

Answer 7

Um, in answer to the first answer answered, okay. God doesn't make the world perfect. He doesn't make the wars stop. He doesn't make sickness and poverty go away? And you know why? Because we can do it ourselves. He would be taking free will away. Simple I think.

And to 'Dellow', what a load of crap, to be honest. People don't generally pray to Gods. It sounds stupid but it's true. We can't pray for him to end war, or stop suffering, or end poverty, because we know he won't. Most people are praying to themselves, to the spirit inside them, asking God to give them strength. F*** the NY Times, how did they find out that? Did they just ask people whether their prayers came true? ''No, I prayed for a new bike, and didn't get one." Okay, great.

And no, it's not fair. But there you go.

Answer 8

Personally speaking, I do not think it is fair to let someone else pay for your sins because first and foremost, they are YOUR sins after all so it is YOUR RESPONSIBILITY for whatever consequences will result from them. Even if someone is to voluntarily "pay" for your sins, it would still not suffice, not entirely because it is supposed to be the person himself/herself who should clean up his/her own mess that he/she got into in the first place.

Answer 9

The first thing that someone should be considering is whether the idea of sin is actually real.

If God is supposed to be perfect how could She have made anything or anyone that wasn't perfect.
Think about it. The idea of sin assumes certain things about God that seem highly unlikely.

First it assumes a God who is too incompetent to organize a simple educational field excursion and figure out a way to get all of the students home safely.

How likely is this that God would not be smart enough to come up with a plan for our salvation that is going to work?

It also assumes that God must have created us imperfect if we are sinners.

One might assume that God would be able to create someone perfect each and every time if he chose to. Assuming God is capable of this, then it follows logically that we must be perfect creations if we are actually creations of this perfect God.

Unless of course you are saying that God chose to create us imperfect.

If God created us imperfect then anything that may go wrong is Gods fault, not ours. This seems a bit illogical at best so I think that we need to assume that What God creates would have to be perfect.

If this is the case and Gods creations are perfect, then nothing that we can do could change what God created perfect and make it imperfect unless we think that we are more powerful than God is.

How likely is it that we the creation could be more powerful than the creator. I personally find this idea somewhat amusing, and a bit absurd.

Religion tells us that God is perfect. If this is true then it could hardly be logically for Gods creations to be considered to be anything less than perfect.

If this is the case and we are perfect creations of a perfect God then Nothing that we can ever do could possibly change this perfection that God willed, unless we were so powerful that our choices could override and change the will of God.

How likely is that????

Think about it.

Love and blessings
don

Answer 10

A study in 2006 by the NY Times show that praying to imaginary gods has no effect what so ever