if someone serves out their sentence, do they still risk being punished in Hell for eternity?
2007-01-24 03:20:24 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
according to christians, yes.
our civil laws are better than god's laws.
weird, huh?
2007-01-24 03:25:56 · answer #1 · answered by Samurai Jack 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
since the premise includes two different worlds, the spiritual and the carnal, you would have to understand that the crime has to be paid here and there. But, the Bible says that if you are truly sorry for your sin and crime it will be forgiven and forgotten under the eyes of God. Meaning you will not have to pay for this crime again, ever in your life or eternity.
2007-01-24 03:28:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You left something out. One cannot be tried for the same crime in court, that occurs on a certain day month and year. But if your going to do it all over again at another period in time, well of course you can be convicted of the same crime again because it occurred on a different date. And of course remember this don't do the crime if you don't want to do the time. follow
2007-01-24 03:32:48 · answer #3 · answered by Bruce 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can be punished twice for the same crime....
ie a civil and a criminal lawsuit.
The thing I think you're trying to ask about is being put on trial for the same crime.....That is called double jeopardy
2007-01-24 03:26:30 · answer #4 · answered by The Cheminator 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Assuming the theological notion of Hell, sure thing.
Double jeopardy was a notion introduced by the court systems. America fought hard to prevent double jeopardy, so legislature was drafted to prevent this. It is one method that mankind uses to try to be fair.
God, however, does not have to be fair. Consider the 42 children he killed just for making fun of a bald man. Consider how God ordained Lot's family as virtuous, while Lot's daughter raped their own father. Consider how God allowed Job to suffer just for a bet with Satan.
Such a being is not concerned with double jeopardy. The legal principle holds no water for God.
2007-01-24 03:23:23 · answer #5 · answered by Rev Kev 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
It may be that your Lord will have mercy on you, and if you again return (to disobedience) We too will return (to punishment), and We have made hell a prison for the unbelievers.
2007-01-24 03:36:46 · answer #6 · answered by sherifa 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you commit a crime against God and humanity and don't repent you aren't forgiven. You can't beg forgiveness and continue to commit the crime and expect forgiveness. Heaven is nearness to God and hell is the nethermost gloom far from God.
2007-01-24 03:30:38 · answer #7 · answered by regmor12 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, you can be tried more than once for the same crime. You can't be tried twice in the same Court. Look at OJ... he was tried for murder in the Supreme Court and was found not-guilty. But in civil court he was tried again for the same thing and lost. *wink*
2007-01-24 03:26:08 · answer #8 · answered by Kithy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No the idea of hell as a place where we are punished after we die is a misunderstanding of scripture.
love and blessings Don
2007-01-24 03:25:25 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are dealing in mythical conjecture.
Hell doesn't exist. It has never been proven to exist. Nobody should be worried about going there....
...well, maybe except for Hell, Michigan. Which is a real city, and I don't want to go THERE...
2007-01-24 03:23:56 · answer #10 · answered by jen1981everett 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋