Jamdoc
Watching and Praying Always
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How about just seeing it as losing an eye is preferable to being enslaved in sin?
A lot of people who are enslaved by sin are already in hell on earth.
If sin has no actual punishment attached to it, many people enjoy sin.
Look at fornication
Unless God is going to punish fornicators, then most people would choose to fornicate... well.. look at our world.
Most people don't believe they'll be judged, so they gladly engage in hookup culture and seek out pleasure in fornication, and many people who have regular sex are a lot happier than those who live celibately for religious reasons.
I'm certainly not happy about living celibately, but I strongly believe I'm not ordained to be married either.
So that leaves me with bitter celibacy. It's not joyful, and I definitely don't feel like it'd be better to lose an eye or arm than to fornicate just to do it.
But if it's something that earns judgement from God? well.. then I guess bitter celibacy it is.
Or how about, stealing movies, music, and video games online... you haven't directly hurt someone, since you haven't physically taken something away from them that they'd normally sell, you've acquired a digital copy of something you may not have bought anyway, but since you got it for free, sure you'll listen to it, or watch it, or play it... if there's no judgement for such an action, what's the harm? It's a gain for you to sin in this way if there's no punishment from God attached to it.
But if God will judge you for it?
Why risk it?
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