Does God punish you when you do something wrong?

EndlessSerenade said:

Every single time I have done something un-Christian like something bad ALWAYS happens to me. I'm not going into the detail about what I do wrong but it's like God is punishing me. For example if I tell a lie, or have a lusty thought and act upon it you bet my parents will have a full blown fight that night (when they've been good for weeks), Or I'll end up doing bad in a test that i have always gotten good marks for or someone will say something mean to me. It's got a 90% accuracy rate. Is it possible that this is how God works? Or at least how He works with ME? And the more seemingly "bad" the act was the more harsher I get punished. And I know that all sin is sin but I'm sure you see the bigger picture. Please help cause this is something that's been pestering me.

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Nurbz said:

He doesn't directly punish, no. It's a belief originating thousands of years ago before modern medicine and education for people to make sense of why people got sick or died for (the time) myserious reasons. People also get the idea he does that from what I hope are merely stories in the old testement where he directly killed children to punish their parents and stuff like that.

A person can suffer the consequences of their own actions, but they aren't punished by God.[/quote]

I agree.

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Nurbz said:

He doesn't directly punish, no. It's a belief originating thousands of years ago before modern medicine and education for people to make sense of why people got sick or died for (the time) myserious reasons. People also get the idea he does that from what I hope are merely stories in the old testement where he directly killed children to punish their parents and stuff like that.

A person can suffer the consequences of their own actions, but they aren't punished by God.

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SwordoftheLord said:

i disagree....you need to study the OT better.and the NT

Hebrews 12:
6For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

7If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? 8But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

However I also believe that he will let your own actions do their own punishment sometimes on their own. But the bible is clear that he is a father who will punish

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SwordoftheLord said:

i disagree....you need to study the OT better.and the NT

Hebrews 12:
6For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

7If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? 8But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

However I also believe that he will let your own actions do their own punishment sometimes on their own. But the bible is clear that he is a father who will punish

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EndlessSerenade said:

Every single time I have done something un-Christian like something bad ALWAYS happens to me. I'm not going into the detail about what I do wrong but it's like God is punishing me. For example if I tell a lie, or have a lusty thought and act upon it you bet my parents will have a full blown fight that night (when they've been good for weeks), Or I'll end up doing bad in a test that i have always gotten good marks for or someone will say something mean to me. It's got a 90% accuracy rate. Is it possible that this is how God works? Or at least how He works with ME? And the more seemingly "bad" the act was the more harsher I get punished. And I know that all sin is sin but I'm sure you see the bigger picture. Please help cause this is something that's been pestering me.

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