Does God Punish?

[gdemoss]

Lets do word gymnastics to prove that we are right!   Both sad and funny at the same time.

It says he scourges every son he receives.  Now maybe you don't consider scourging punishment but seems pretty rough to me.

[KPaulG]

OK, sisterrachel on Worthy, I think, yelled at her mom, I think, before recieving Jesus.

 

She feels like God is punishing her for that.

 

Is that true?

 

God Bless you.

 

Your brother in Christ,

KPaulG.

[Ezra]

Gary,

Unless you are telling us that you would discipline your children by stripping them and flogging them publicly, you might want to consider removing that inappropriate picture from this thread. It has nothing to do with God's chastisements.

[AllTheGoodNamesAreTaken]

Brother Paul,

The former covenant was one of punishment for sin. The new covenant is forgiveness of sin, for those who repent and believe. God will correct, as conviction for wrong-doing is part of our new life in Christ. He will lead you to repentance and by His grace and mercy, you are already forgiven. 

[gdemoss]

Gary,

Unless you are telling us that you would discipline your children by stripping them and flogging them publicly, you might want to consider removing that inappropriate picture from this thread. It has nothing to do with God's chastisements.

You claim something to be true the onus is on you to prove it.  Prove God does not do this.  And if the picture depicting what God did to his own son when he delivered him into the hands of sinners to be crucified offends you because you realize that to be as he is you must be willing to do what he did then so be it.  The scourge I use to correct my children is God himself through the spoken word.  I trust Gods word and simply explain to them what God does to those who do such things and God brings signs following to confirm his word.  And actually this is a fairly new concept to me in practice for I found out that I had a very hard time comming to a place of trusting God to do such work.  I am increasing in effectiveness every day as I practice being still and knowing that he is God Almighty who can correct, chastise or deliver at will.  Peace unto you.

[KPaulG]

Brother Paul,

The former covenant was one of punishment for sin. The new covenant is forgiveness of sin, for those who repent and believe. God will correct, as conviction for wrong-doing is part of our new life in Christ. He will lead you to repentance and by His grace and mercy, you are already forgiven. 

ok ATGNAT. Thank you.

 

God Bless you.

 

Your brother in Christ,

KPaulG.

[*Deidre*]

I think that Bible is clear about the consequences of wrong doing. If we are contrite and repent, truly remorseful for the wrong doing, then we will experience great joy. The truth about sin is that it hurts us as much as it hurts the person we are sinning against, and it hurts God. It hurts God because He loves us, and wants us to live on a higher level. A spiritual level that transcends the mere fleshly life that we live everyday. When you start looking at your relationship with Christ as something much more than following a rule book, you will naturally want to make that relationship as good as you can. If we keep hurting someone in our everyday relationships by our actions, that would bring about bad consequences, but the crazy thing is...Jesus loves us right as we are. I've experienced this first hand when I left the faith for a few years, and He came and rescued me back. It's love like no other, and that kind of love should move us to at least striving to stay away from sin, and to repent when we do sin.

Edited October 31, 2015 by *Deidre*

[JP1]