ibwaz having a chat with my partner this morning, she is a practicing Christian, and she wondered about forgiveness and judgement.
As she’s now gone off to church and I’m shortly off to the pub then football I thought I’d ask if there was a consensus.
If belief gets you into heaven but you repeatedly and knowingly commit sin (drinking alcohol and engaging in sexual relations outside marriage fir example) will you still be accepted and forgiven on judgement day?
Or might she be joining me and other non Christians in the lake of fire or wherever the other place is?
You know the students I use to get that would ask me about getting an F in the class? Usually, the ones who were not doing what they were supposed to do to get an A. Stuff such as:
Reading the syllabus
Asking for help during office hours
Coming to class on time and regularly
Involve in class sessions/ study with classmates
Doing assignments on time
It's a different story if I see they are asking for grace because of an emergency. And I can only give grace so much since at the end of the day, I don't have the time and i have to hold a standard thats fair to all. But typically, if there is no emergency, but they are wondering if they are gonna make it, I just point them back to the syllabus. Should a teacher reward a student for continually not doing what they are supposed to be doing? No.
I've always wondered, why fight just to merely avoid an F? Wouldn't it be wiser and simpler to just aim for the A instead? It makes it easier for them, but also gives me more time to give options to help them. But that's how we are as humans. A lot of times we more put ourselves in situations where we want to fight to avoid an F, when that same energy could just be towards aiming for the A.
So I would point back, what does the Bible say about willfully sinning? Plenty of scriptures that she can just google right now, and it will explain clear as day the consequence ( 1 John 3:4-10). I can't speak for non-believers such as yourself ( because I figured non-believers, since they don't believe, wouldn't care or hold value on sin or any of its consequences, unless they were planning to believe), in my eyes as a teacher, unless you were planning on enrolling, you're not even in the class.
But for believers/students like her, it would be practicing lawlessness, and there is no reward for that. If she wants to be rewarded, then her time is better spent to doing things towards that, and not thing towards barely making it just to avoid wrath. If she wants to see others rewarded, then she should just encourage others to do the same.