Why do we sin when we know God is watching

[on fire 4 christ]

I dont know why we sin when we know God is watching us i think wat it is its that u have let satan enter in and once he does he will do any thing he can to get u away from God i mean any thing now i want all who read this think next time before u make a descision i want u to see wat God is seeing and wat he is feeling then mybe then u will make the right choice i want u to think that the greater one is watching u make the right choices i think also is that once u get away from God u are use to it and u are use to sinning without even relizing God is watching u

 

[Iron Lion]

Great Post.

I wish i knew the answer, If I did I would be a better person for it thats for sure. Its really a self controll issue i guess.

I think in todays world people have lost the reality of God's excistance as being there 100% of the time. People dont fear God as they did hundreds of years ago in the same way. Its easy to be side tracked with internets, tvs, computer games and so on we forget about God being there with us all all time.

I really dont know. Just a few of my thoughts.

 

[1vision]

I think we sin when we know God is watching because we sometimes take advantage of his grace, knowing that we can always come back home...but we need to always know that there are consequences for our wrong actions/choices.

 

[Stanfi]

I do not think that we truly fear God. If we feared God we could not disobey Him.

 

[Ben_Hur]

It is indicative of your level of faith. If you truly believed God was watching you at every minute of every day, you would not sin. This is my own basic problem. If you had a friend or relative standing next to you at every minute - unless this person said, yes, go ahead, sin, be my guest - you would not sin. At that point, you have 100% faith in the presence of that person. The key for me, I think, is to get to the point in my faith that I truly believe Jesus is right there with my at every minute. I felt that way for a few days after I saw a movie called the Gospel of John. But my sinful, fleshly desires eventually drew me away from that - I failed to stay in prayer about it.

 

[markIII]

We are sinners! Therefore we sin. G-d is always "watching"(He is always with us), but we will sin no matter how much we fear Him. Lets not get the idea that G-d is someone waiting behind a tree waiting to say "ha ha I caught you sinning". He is the G-d of second chances! He is just to forgive us of our sin. He knows our heart He knows when one is truly repenting. We should feel conviction not to continue in sin. In true repentence you find grace.

 

[Harry the Heretic]

It is indicative of your level of faith. If you truly believed God was watching you at every minute of every day, you would not sin. This is my own basic problem. If you had a friend or relative standing next to you at every minute - unless this person said, yes, go ahead, sin, be my guest - you would not sin. At that point, you have 100% faith in the presence of that person. The key for me, I think, is to get to the point in my faith that I truly believe Jesus is right there with my at every minute. I felt that way for a few days after I saw a movie called the Gospel of John. But my sinful, fleshly desires eventually drew me away from that - I failed to stay in prayer about it.

Yes it is a lack of faith, or as John puts it, a lack of "fellowship". The addversary is always there to weaken or call into question one's fellowship with the Lord. And if we succumb, we are most susceptible to sin, for we lose our strenght which is Christ.

 

[Col]

Why?...Because we are only human.

God is well aware of our shortcomings and is a loving and forgiving God.

 

[lovespeace]

Obviously we want to do what we want to do. Doing what God wants us to do requires submitting our thoughts and actions, a hard thing to do.. I will admit, I sin all the time, in word and deed. Don't want to, but I do it anyways. I confess it, try not to do it again, but odds are that I will. I am getting better with God's grace.

 

[Utah Knight]

we sin because we are imperfect humans and this is satans world

 

[delightful]

I believe it's because we forget.(human nature) and of course the devil playing his little game.