Christians: Do you get jealous when you see someone doing something fun that you consider to be a sin?

Question

If you know someone is having sex or if someone is just having a fun life, living life to the fullest, enjoying life, do you get jealous?
Do you get jealous when you see a person who is not shackled by unnecessarily restrictive religious sin laws?
Do you get jealous when you see someone who is not filled with guilt and shame for their existence and who has the strength to think for themselves? Do you envy their freedom?

When someone else has or gets something that you desire even though you consider the thing to be a "sin", does that make you envious and bitter?
Do you then wish revenge on them in the form of saying "You're going to Hell!"?
If you could have whatever it is that is making you bitter, would you still consider it to be a sin?
Or do you only consider things to be sins as long as you can't have them? Do you change the "sin" laws around to meet your needs in different situations? Is this a way of making people feel bad for having the things that you desire?

Does spoiling things or depriving people of the things you desire make it easier for you to live because it eases your jealousy?
Do you think “Well if I can’t have it (whatever it is that you desire, whether it be “sinful” or not), then no one can! If I can’t have what I want, then I am going to do the next best thing and try to ruin these things for the people that do have them!”?
Do you then do this in the form of guilt manipulation by threats of Hell and if the guilt manipulation does not work due to their disbelief in Hell, do you do the next best thing and defame their character in hopes of demonizing them and ostracizing them? Does this give you satisfaction?

Answer 1

Jealosy is a sin. So.... that would cancel out the reason for this question.

Answer 2

When I go for a long run, I pass by a particular Burger Joint...and smell the food cooking and see these fat people going inside...and I think to myself...why do I take care of myself? Why do I continue to exercise...when most of the world doesn't...it would be so much easier just to be a lazy ass...and pull up a chair in the Burger joint...and then go home and flop on the couch and watch some t.v.

So yeah....I guess I am a little jealous of those people that sin by not taking care of their body, which I believe to be a sin...because your body is a temple of God, etc... They have a lot more free time, and eat a lot better food...but, then again...I will probably have a lot longer life than them....and get a lot more sex...from better looking people....because face it, what good looking people want to have sex with fat people. :-)

Answer 3

Things that I consider a sin I am not interested in doing, therefore I am not jealous at all nor do I think these activities are fun. I have no guilt or shame for anything I do I use it all as a learning experience. One cannoth change the "sin laws" you either live righteously or you don't.

Answer 4

Ultra Super Juiced,
Your question is poorly phrased and not layered you need to start thinking in layers.
So take a deep breath & relax.
No I don't feel that way at all. As a matter of fact I consider my self quite liberated and free to do as I please. I call that awareness. I am not sure what you consider fun life or living life to the fullest. It sounds as though you might be into immoral stuff which any one with a bit of common sense would steer away from.
I would be curious to know what happened to you that you have this twisted notion that I give a rats butt as to what the next person does. Where you somehow damaged by somebody who wa/is Chistian?
I think very clearly and calmly too!

Answer 5

I do not get "happy" or jealous when another is sinning.
I also do not decide what is and is not sin. that is written for us all to know and understand.

Personally, I hurt for the one who is living a life of fleshly desire and personal gratification. I guess I am answering this right now because my heart is breaking for a young man who has taken his own life.
From all outside indictors he did not know the love of God on this earth, his life was filled with pain and rejection from a mother who was busier running her own love life than caring for her children.
Yes, my heart should be breaking for the mother, but right now I am just angry with her and her addiction(s).

So, no, jealous, never, heart broken, most of the time, angry, once in a while.

Answer 6

Really the whole 'sin' thing gets on my nerves somtimes. When i was in church they told us to be happy and then give us s*** about not doing this or that. God says that we should be happy and i dont need some guy in a fancy robe to tell me how to be happy. If im going to hell, at least ill be there with all my friends and family.

on the other hand, you dont seem to quite get what a sin really is. Sex isnt sin, fun isnt sin, and enjoying life isnt sin either.

Answer 7

You think I should be envious or jealous of someone who is sinning against the Lord? I loathe sin because of what it did to my Savior on the cross. Jesus took your sins and my sins upon Himself on that cross. That was the only way to win us back from being lost and dead in our sins. The wages of sin is death. Only Christ redeemed us from death or eternal hell.

You don't even know that you are in bondage to sin. You don't even know that you are dead (spiritually dead) in sin.
Jealous of you being able to sin. I can't believe that you even said it. I loathe (hate) sin and what sin does to the human race. Do you not know that sin brings disease, illness, affliction and death? This world is in total bondage to sin and we are too dumb to know it. We fight against the Word of God instead of embracing it. Have you not read "those who God sets free are free indeed?" We must all be saved from sin, because sin brings death (spiritual death). For this reason, God sent a Savior called Jesus Christ our Lord.