Does sin cause suffering?

[JohnB445]

Many times I have seen from other people's experiences, their sin causing suffering.

I have thought that those who sin, God will cause suffering to teach them not to sin. Is this true?

 

[port41919]

Many times I have seen from other people's experiences, their sin causing suffering.

I have thought that those who sin, God will cause suffering to teach them not to sin. Is this true?

No it is not true. God gives us free will to make choices. When we choose sinfully we cause ourselves to suffer. We are under the New Testament because of Jesus Christ. Our God is a forgiving, merciful, gracious Father. Jesus is our Savior. God bless! Sally

 

[FutureAndAHope]

Sin can bring chastening, or correction from God, at times suffering.

Heb 12:5-14 And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons: "MY SON, DO NOT DESPISE THE CHASTENING OF THE LORD, NOR BE DISCOURAGED WHEN YOU ARE REBUKED BY HIM; FOR WHOM THE LORD LOVES HE CHASTENS, AND SCOURGES EVERY SON WHOM HE RECEIVES." If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten? But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons. Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live? For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, that we may be partakers of His holiness. Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. Therefore strengthen the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees, and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed. Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord:

 

[d taylor]

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God does not have to cause the suffering, the sin itself can/will cause all the suffering in many cases.

 

[GodsGrace101]

Many times I have seen from other people's experiences, their sin causing suffering.

I have thought that those who sin, God will cause suffering to teach them not to sin. Is this true?

Sinning itself causes suffering.

This is why God gave us commandments to follow.
But most do not...and thus the suffering.

Suffering can come from 3 different sources:
Ourself
Others
Nature

The reason we suffer is due to Adam's fall.
He broke a perfect relationship with God,
with himself, with others and with nature.

 

[Jonaitis]

Many times I have seen from other people's experiences, their sin causing suffering.

I have thought that those who sin, God will cause suffering to teach them not to sin. Is this true?

The real nature of sin is desire. Sin is born when we want something other than God. This disposition of the heart turns men away from what God commands to debased beliefs and practices. When we are made anew by the Spirit, our desire for the world begins to vanish, because all that we ever want is no longer something that we must keep finding.

However, men are easily prone to the unquenching desire for worldly attachment, and they may repeat their suffering for a whole lifetime and learn nothing about it, having clung themselves so tightly to the impermanent existence that we are really meant to travel through.

We find self-fulfillment in all our seeking in God, and it gives us a sense of hope, comfort, peace, joy, and thankfulness. We have no reason to seek out anything by means of ill-will or cunning. It is this desireless disposition of the world while in the world that we strive to achieve in this life perfectly, and will attain in the next. So God alone ought to be the desire of the soul.

 

[disciple Clint]

Many times I have seen from other people's experiences, their sin causing suffering.

I have thought that those who sin, God will cause suffering to teach them not to sin. Is this true?

Sin can interfere with our blessings but God does not punish us for sin. He understands our humanity and we understand that He will ultimately judge everyone, those who have not accepted His Son will pay the price for their sin.

 

[bling]

Hell and/or annihilation are the punishments for sin, but God will discipline His children while on earth for all the benefits of discipline.

 

[ViaCrucis]

There may be correction, as some have said. But I do not believe that when we sin God causes us to suffer. Though sin innately brings suffering, because it is sin. In the same way that a virus when it invades the body wrecks havoc on the body.

But that's also why God calls us in His love to confess our sins, and to be at the receiving end of His grace. The forgiveness of our sins that is ever-present in the Gospel. That our guilty conscience might be relieved, and that we find life and its abundance in the mercy of God and the cross of Jesus, whose precious blood washes us clean and cleanses us of all unrighteousness.

We should not see suffering as a punishment from God, as though if we suffer it is because of some particular sin. Jesus utterly obliterates that kind of idea when the disciples ask Him concerning the blind man, "Who sinned, him or his parents?" And Jesus said it was neither of those things, and then heals the blind man and God is glorified.

Most often the sufferings of life are simply the reality of living in this world, and Jesus tells us to take up our cross and follow Him. This life is a cross, a cross we must bear as His disciples. As this is not the world where justice resides, that world comes in the future when God makes all things new. So here and now, we are called to fight the good fight, and run the race. But we are not alone, we have Jesus who is our Savior, our hope, and our solid ground; we have God's love and mercy, we have the Holy Spirit who living in us is always drawing us and directing us to Jesus. We are, says the author of Hebrews, surrounded by the great cloud of witnesses--all the saints and martyrs who have come before us cheering us on.

-CryptoLutheran

 

[StillGods]

Many times I have seen from other people's experiences, their sin causing suffering.

I have thought that those who sin, God will cause suffering to teach them not to sin. Is this true?

yeah, although it's more that God allows consequences but same difference to me.
God disciplined those He loves.

 

[Hawkins]

Many times I have seen from other people's experiences, their sin causing suffering.

I have thought that those who sin, God will cause suffering to teach them not to sin. Is this true?

God is completely incompatible with sin. So whenever you sin, God may choose to hide His face from you, especially under the circumstances that you refuse to repent.

Whenever God hides His face then, the devil may take the chance to mess with you as he wants, while the devil is a unpredictable person dedicated in doing things he thinks would be efficient in separating you from God. So if punishing you may make you doubt God, he would do so.

But no worries, God will at the end come back for His scattered sheep.

 

[NinjaPirate777]

Sometimes.

Sin has consequences. You steal and you get caught and go to jail and get a record and it's hard to get a job at places where you might steal. It is very simple.

You make a pass at your brother's wife and he refuses to talk to you for decades, and maybe longer.

Both of the above examples are of other people I know. Avoiding sin is not about missing fun like some believe. It is about living a good life.

 

[Strong in Him]

Many times I have seen from other people's experiences, their sin causing suffering.

I have thought that those who sin, God will cause suffering to teach them not to sin. Is this true?

No.

Jesus died for our sins; he took them upon himself.
If God was going to punish us for our sins, Jesus would not have died.