(Romans 6:23) For the wages sin pays is death
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2007-05-02 13:29:29
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answered by achtung_heiss 7
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Are you talking about a murderer who is a self-professed Christian and expects the sin to be forgiven, or a person who someone who never heard about God and Christ in their life time?
What it comes down to is what Gos finds in their heart at the time of the second resurrection of Revelations. No human can speculate on what is found in the heart of a murderer, let alone what God will find in your heart when the time comes. As for some sins being worse than others, or there is a balancing of the scales, consider that Moses could not enter the Promise Land as a result of just on sin, despite all the good he had done. The question to ask yourself is whether it was what he did, or was it that he though it wouldn't count because of everything he had done right? Did he assume to know what God would think of one sin as compared to another?
2007-05-02 21:33:04
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answered by Anonymous
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A man who has committed murder is deserving of death. He must answer to God as well as to the State. Can he get forgiveness from God? Yes, by putting his reliance by faith in the atoning blood of Jesus Christ and becoming a wholehearted, dedicated servant of God. (Acts 10:43) If he does so, he may still die (and justly so) at the hands of the State, but he has a sure hope of resurrection. He will have a better start on the way to life in a paradise earth during Christ’s thousand-year reign.—Acts 17:31.
2007-05-02 06:54:58
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answered by LineDancer 7
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Well God set things up millenia ago, that the price for murder was death. As for an afterlife, we believe that those Jehovah views as unworthy/unrepentant ie not willing to follow his laws, simply die and that is it. Those willing to follow his laws have a chance to be resurrected to a paradise Earth.
2007-05-02 07:14:44
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answered by Ish Var Lan Salinger 7
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According to the Bible, the punishment for sin is the same as it has always been: death. We are introduced to this in Genesis 2:17. Adam was told the punishment for disobedience (sin) was death. Adam died for his sin.
At Romans 6:23, we are told the wages sin pays is death. Not fiery torment. Not separation from God. Death. That is to say, no life.
At Revelation 20:14,15 it is still the same: anyone whose name is not found written in the book of life is thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire, defined in the scripture itself, is the second death - from which there is no possible resurrection.
God's punishment for sin - no matter the form it takes - has always been death. Death is the absence of life.
Hannah J Paul
2007-05-02 07:04:35
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answered by Hannah J Paul 7
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Jehovah's Witnesses believe that after we die we cease to exist.
"In the sweat of your face you will eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are and to dust you will return." -- Genesis 3:19
"The soul that is sinning—it itself will die." -- Ezekiel 18:4
"For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all, neither do they anymore have wages, because the remembrance of them has been forgotten." -- Ecclesiastes 9:5
"All that your hand finds to do, do with your very power, for there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in She′ol, the place to which you are going." -- Ecclesiastes 9:10
"His spirit goes out, he goes back to his ground;
In that day his thoughts do perish." -- Proverbs 146:4
Crime, defined as “a gross violation of law,” had its origin in the spirit realm. The first humans, Adam and Eve, were not created with criminal tendencies, nor were they wholly responsible for the introduction of crime into human society. A perfect spirit son of God allowed wrong thoughts to take root in his heart, which, when nourished, gave birth to crime. That one was responsible for corrupting the original crime-free world. By breaking God’s law, he made himself a criminal, and he is identified in the Bible as Satan the Devil.
"YOU are from YOUR father the Devil, and YOU wish to do the desires of YOUR father. That one was a manslayer when he began, and he did not stand fast in the truth, because truth is not in him. When he speaks the lie, he speaks according to his own disposition, because he is a liar and the father of [the lie]." -- John 8:44
Those who murder will be punished.
“Everyone who hates his brother is a manslayer, and you know that no manslayer has everlasting life remaining in him.” -- 1Â John 3:15
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2007-05-02 09:42:11
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answered by Alex 5
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God does not punish murders any differently then he would punish any other sinner..
To not be in the presence of god is punishment .
2007-05-02 06:46:56
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answered by LadyCatherine 7
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Jehovah's Witnesses believe that murderers and other unrepentant sinners die forever, but are not conscious.
2007-05-02 06:39:00
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answered by MiD 4
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