I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment.
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In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.
You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice.
In the end, crime doesn't pay.
If you commit a crime, you're guilty.
As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them.
My argument is not that I shouldn't have been punished, but that the punishment didn't fit the crime.
There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.
The Gospel declares that our guilt has been atoned for, the law has been fulfilled. So we don't need to live under the burden of trying to appease the judgment we feel.
Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.
We are punished by our sins, not for them.