Could a Christian Cheat?

[Classik]

Could a Christian cheat?

E.g, You are sitting for your exam...and you have no clue what the questions are talking about. Your only option is: cheat-and-pass or fail-and-get-kicked-out-of-school.

 

[iLOVE]

If you are led by the flesh it is possible you can cheat.

 

[jasonc]

possible is. your question is along of the lines can a Christian sin?

 

[ReginaForbes]

SHOULD a Christian cheat?
There, I fixed the error.


...oh, and the answer is NO.

 

[Deborah13]

Could a Christian cheat?

E.g, You are sitting for your exam...and you have no clue what the questions are talking about. Your only option is: cheat-and-pass or fail-and-get-kicked-out-of-school.

If someone has to restore to cheating in order to not get kicked out of school, then they don't belong there anyway. Better that they wait until they are ready to be serious about school than to compromise their integrity and fail as a Christian witness. Whether any other person knew or not, God would and they would.

 

[Classik]

Common sense?

 

[KevinK]

If you fold on your beliefs to avoid an academic expulsion, what will you do when they line up the Christians for beheading?

 

[JohnD]

Could a Christian cheat?

E.g, You are sitting for your exam...and you have no clue what the questions are talking about. Your only option is: cheat-and-pass or fail-and-get-kicked-out-of-school.

Actually Christians (sadly) are capable of committing far worse atrocities stemming from (I suppose) over confidence in forgiveness. If we are frank with ourselves, there are sins we've committed intentionally with the thinking that God will forgive me all my sins anyway...

Forgive in an eternal sense yes.
In a temporal sense... well that's completely different. Ask Moses who could not enter with the people into the promised land here on earth because he disobeyed God about striking the rock to produce water miraculously the second time. The rock (symbolic of Jesus was to be struck only once).

Granted not every time we are tempted to sin are we at a prophetic crossroads (like Moses was) where God wants to use our obedience to teach the world about his plans... but it just might be.

Some say the cults and even false religions have better behaved, more well mannered members that the Body of Christ. Given the universality of human nature, I would say they are more afraid than Christians... BUT! Christians proceed from the false premise that just because we are at peace with God as far as salvation goes that we need not fear God at all. Not true. In our dealings with the sovereignty of God we had better reverence and revere and fear him and tremble at his Word!

Look up those words in your Bible search engines. And be amazed.

One of my favorite verses in scripture is a good text to quote at a water baptism...

Isaiah 54:8–10 (NASB95)
8“In an outburst of anger I hid My face from you for a moment, But with everlasting lovingkindness I will have compassion on you,” Says the Lord your Redeemer.
9“For this is like the days of Noah to Me, When I swore that the waters of Noah Would not flood the earth again; So I have sworn that I will not be angry with you Nor will I rebuke you.
10“For the mountains may be removed and the hills may shake, But My lovingkindness will not be removed from you, And My covenant of peace will not be shaken,” Says the Lord who has compassion on you.

This is in the context of eternal salvation. Temporally:

1 Corinthians 5:1–5 (NASB95)
1It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and immorality of such a kind as does not exist even among the Gentiles, that someone has his father’s wife.
2You have become arrogant and have not mourned instead, so that the one who had done this deed would be removed from your midst.
3For I, on my part, though absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged him who has so committed this, as though I were present.
4In the name of our Lord Jesus, when you are assembled, and I with you in spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus,
5I have decided to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Be bold, but remember to fear God.

 

[jeff77]

Actually Christians (sadly) are capable of committing far worse atrocities stemming from (I suppose) over confidence in forgiveness. If we are frank with ourselves, there are sins we've committed intentionally with the thinking that God will forgive me all my sins anyway...

Forgive in an eternal sense yes.
In a temporal sense... well that's completely different. Ask Moses who could not enter with the people into the promised land here on earth because he disobeyed God about striking the rock to produce water miraculously the second time. The rock (symbolic of Jesus was to be struck only once).

Granted not every time we are tempted to sin are we at a prophetic crossroads (like Moses was) where God wants to use our obedience to teach the world about his plans... but it just might be.

Some say the cults and even false religions have better behaved, more well mannered members that the Body of Christ. Given the universality of human nature, I would say they are more afraid than Christians... BUT! Christians proceed from the false premise that just because we are at peace with God as far as salvation goes that we need not fear God at all. Not true. In our dealings with the sovereignty of God we had better reverence and revere and fear him and tremble at his Word!

Look up those words in your Bible search engines. And be amazed.

One of my favorite verses in scripture is a good text to quote at a water baptism...

Isaiah 54:8–10 (NASB95)
8“In an outburst of anger I hid My face from you for a moment, But with everlasting lovingkindness I will have compassion on you,” Says the Lord your Redeemer.
9“For this is like the days of Noah to Me, When I swore that the waters of Noah Would not flood the earth again; So I have sworn that I will not be angry with you Nor will I rebuke you.
10“For the mountains may be removed and the hills may shake, But My lovingkindness will not be removed from you, And My covenant of peace will not be shaken,” Says the Lord who has compassion on you.

This is in the context of eternal salvation. Temporally:

1 Corinthians 5:1–5 (NASB95)
1It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and immorality of such a kind as does not exist even among the Gentiles, that someone has his father’s wife.
2You have become arrogant and have not mourned instead, so that the one who had done this deed would be removed from your midst.
3For I, on my part, though absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged him who has so committed this, as though I were present.
4In the name of our Lord Jesus, when you are assembled, and I with you in spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus,
5I have decided to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Be bold, but remember to fear God.

Great post! All sins are forgiven, but some will still have consequences while in this life.

 

[Classik]

Good. consequences of what nature?