Isn't the punishment for all sins the same?

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this Christian says that a person who has many chances to accept Jesus and doesn't will be punished more severely than someone who has a few chances to accept and doesn't. I was under the impression that the punishment for all sins was the same. Eternal suffering is eternal suffering any way you look at it.

Anyway I'm not trying to target this person my actual question is:
Do you think its fair that someone who grew up in an environment where they had very limited to no exposure to the Christian gospel, (maybe they grew up in an area of the world where Buddhism or Hinduism is the predominant faith) gets the same punishment as murderers and rapists who may have had a lot of exposure to the Christian faith and didn't accept the gospel?

Answer 1

Sadly it seems as if the First Great Awakening is being re awoken. THe FGA was a religous movement that highly touted the idea that humans are sinners and more than likely will burn in hell. (see Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God). This fire and brimstone belief was successful in converting many people to christianity. This same idea is being reimplimented by evangelicals (Fundies, but im tryin to sound semi intelligent here). By putting such a horrible outcome on people get gets conversions. And the main goals of evangelicals are converting people and making political messages. So yes i think the evangelicals are making a big dea out of this inorder to gain conversions.

Personally i say they wont be punished. At the core root of things many christians are that way because of how they are raised. Same goes with many other religions.

Answer 2

Just a thought:

Many rapists and murderers grew up in environments that instilled that horror in THEM, much the same way as many Christians grew up in Christian environments, or Buddhists in Buddhist environments.

Sometimes it's not just a matter of choosing to accept the gospel or choosing not to. Listen to some stories of nightmares inflicted upon children and tell me you're in your right mind to suggest they're going to burn in an eternal fire even though they've essentially lived in one their entire lives.

Hey coolshades, what if a person heard the gospel zero times?

Answer 3

The wages for sin is death. Will mankind never understand? Jesus is life, and abolished death. God was the fire in the burning bush, the pillar of fire that led His people through the desert, the chariot of fire that took Elijah to heaven, The fire that came down from heaven to consume the sacrifice on the Altar. God says Himself, I am a consuming fire. God is described as the devine fire from the beginning of the Bible to the end of the Bible. But yet, we blind and deaf idiots have made the lake of fire into a literal,hideous,torturing place, that totally is contrary to, the loving, forgiving, merciful, and full of Grace God, that Paul said would be more abounding than the abounding sin. We are the beast!

Answer 4

Punishment for fornication is a hundred lashes if witnessed by employing 4 adults. confident punishment is comparable for the two genders for their sins. Out of two fornicators if one is married than the married persons get to be stoned to dying by employing human beings so no person dares to commit adultery having a companion.

Answer 5

There is a lot of disagreement on the punishment and rewards that are discussed in the Bible.

I believe, because of a parable Jesus told about people being hired to work in a vineyard, that all reward will be equal and that all punishment will be equal.

Being equal it may not be the same.

In any case if you want to know what God has in mind you should ask God. God answers knee-mail.

PS: I am sure God has that all figured out ldb83. You should ask God if you want to know.

Answer 6

Do I think it is fair? No. And it's one of the reasons I cannot reconsile myself to Christianity.

"The wages of sin are death" is the quote - and as such, those most informed deserve the full punishment for sinning, wouldn't they?

Answer 7

The bible says that everyone will have one or more chances to know god and accept him as their savior. Weather they ignore the calling or not is their chooice

Answer 8

according to the bible... at least how many interpret it, all will be punished unless they have accepted Christ, so about 66% of the world's current population will be in hell plus all the billions of people that came before.

Not a very resonable scenerio...

Answer 9

Everyone who chooses not to accept God's free gift of salvation will go to Hell. There are no levels of hell...everyone will get the same punishment.

And it doesn't matter how many times you heard the gospel. Whether you heard it one time or one thousand times, if you don't accept it, you'll go to Hell.

Answer 10

yes

James 2
10For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it. 11For he who said, "Do not commit adultery,"[b] also said, "Do not murder."[c] If you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker.