Will a sin physicaly effect a person?

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Something has bugged me for a long time. I worry weather a sin a person commits will effect their physical body in any way…by God’s power that is. Let me give you an example. Let’s say a man is very attractive and has perfect hair and good looks. He uses this to his advantage to get lots of girls and do what ever he wishes (impure things… =0) so God gets angry at this, and causes something to happen where he has to cut off all his beautiful hair and chicks wont digg him no more. Or maybe causes him to become ill and hospitalized so he cant go fooling around with girls…or something like that…does God do that? I think that when you commit a sin, it makes you farther away from God and therefore it is harder to get his help in times of need, and harder to get prayers answered, if you have many sins…but maybe its more than just that…im confused…

ugggh help me plz, thankz
 
Maya2172 said:
Something has bugged me for a long time. I worry weather a sin a person commits will effect their physical body in any way…by God’s power that is. Let me give you an example. Let’s say a man is very attractive and has perfect hair and good looks. He uses this to his advantage to get lots of girls and do what ever he wishes (impure things… =0) so God gets angry at this, and causes something to happen where he has to cut off all his beautiful hair and chicks wont digg him no more. Or maybe causes him to become ill and hospitalized so he cant go fooling around with girls…or something like that…does God do that? I think that when you commit a sin, it makes you farther away from God and therefore it is harder to get his help in times of need, and harder to get prayers answered, if you have many sins…but maybe its more than just that…im confused…

ugggh help me plz, thankz
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It’s pretty hard to say what God has in mind for any particular person. We know that He is perfect, and so He is the perfect Father…not choosing favorites. He can permit bad things to happen to us. It happens all the time. He may permit some things to happen to us so that we can use that misfortune to help heal or build character. God has a long range plan for each of us. He doesn’t think it’s necessary to tell us what those plans are. are. One thing that we can rely on is that He loves us and desires only the best for us. That best might be in the form of misfortune, but eventually a greater good comes out of it. Just love God, do your best, and trust that God is there for you, no matter what happens.
 
God could let something bad happen to you to teach you a lesson. It has happened before. I cannot guarentee this of course but it is possible.
Mikayla
 
I can think of plenty of circumstances where sin could affect someone physically, but most of these are natural consequences of the sinful behavior. Lust (promiscuity) leading to venereal disease; gluttony leading to obesity, anger leading to high blood pressure, ulcers, and heart attacks and strokes, drunkenness leading to alcoholism or other addictions, envy leading to severe depression, sloth leading to being totally out of shape. You get the idea. God doesn’t have to get too personally involved with punishing the sinner in cases like these, the laws of nature take over all by themselves.

I haven’t personally heard of any cases where someone was sinful and something happened to them physically that spoiled their looks or something, sort of like a reverse miracle, but I suppose that since God is sovereign and all-powerful, it could happen.

You know, if you take a good look at the Ten Commandments, leaving aside the sacred, they were written for our own good. As in mechanical or electronic items, when dealing with your human self, follow the Owner’s Manual (Scripture and Church teachings,) and you won’t go far astray!👍
 
I listened to a sermon from a Catholic priest whose written some psychology textbooks about sin and its physical effects, and he was indicating it does has some, even on brain physiology and that this needed to be more researched to determine the extent of it.

Lying for example, uses different parts of the brain than other actions, and then there’s the habituation of these responses… the deterioration…

That said, there is also yes, the act of God type consequence too, and even more areas of effect.

Whenever we misuse something good, it’s like running around with a hammer and hitting things not meant to be hit. There’s a lot of damage everywhere. The full consequences of the damage of each and every sin, we do not realize.
 
Lucky10279 said:
Sorry but that is not rediculus at all.
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Really? How so? You see, “sin” is not literally going to affect a person in a physical or mental aspect. “Sin” affects you however you want it to. If you think that because you told a lie (sin) or you murdered someone (sin) and you physically change (because of sin), that is ridiculous. If you did change, which is not likely, it is because of a confounding factor, you’re paranoid, or just crazy. Probably crazy, though.
 
I am NOT crazy. Please do not say mean things because you don’t agree with me.

Mikayla
 
Lucky10279 said:
I am NOT crazy. Please do not say mean things because you don’t agree with me.

Mikayla
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Oh, I wasn’t referring to you specifically. I meant, someone who thinks that sin has changed them physically.
 
I believe it’s a sin to kill yourself. Well, I’d imagine that would hurt quite a bit, physically-that is until you die.
 
We’re capable of scanning the brain today and watching the activity within as various thought processes are performed.

Lying for example, uses different parts of the brain, causes different activity, than telling the truth.

Lying is a sin.

The parts of the brain we use, become habituated to that activity. There are physiological changes because of it.

There’s nothing ridiculous about sin affecting our physical health in more ways than we might first expect. Though naturally of course, drugs, promiscuity, intemperance, drunkenness, etc. all these sins have bad physical affects.

And the diseases and various other awful results of bad behavior are no coincidence.
 
Maya2172 said:
Something has bugged me for a long time. I worry weather a sin a person commits will effect their physical body in any way…by God’s power that is. Let me give you an example. Let’s say a man is very attractive and has perfect hair and good looks. He uses this to his advantage to get lots of girls and do what ever he wishes (impure things… =0) so God gets angry at this, and causes something to happen where he has to cut off all his beautiful hair and chicks wont digg him no more. Or maybe causes him to become ill and hospitalized so he cant go fooling around with girls…or something like that…does God do that? I think that when you commit a sin, it makes you farther away from God and therefore it is harder to get his help in times of need, and harder to get prayers answered, if you have many sins…but maybe its more than just that…im confused…

ugggh help me plz, thankz
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God does not work this way, that kind of thinking rather is characteristic of superstition, not religion. The consequences of sin, physical and otherwise, are inherent in the sinful action itself. If you shoot somebody they are gravely wounded or die. If you abuse drugs and alcohol, you suffer physical and mental effects. If you have sex outside marriage you are very likely to get disease and your ability to form a normal marriage relationship is impaired and so forth. God did not target you–or your victim–for the consequence, they are the natural consequence of the sin. Can you go through your whole life sinning and never have any physical consequence? yes, at least none that you are aware of, but you are doing repeated spiritual and psychological damage to yourself. As other posters have pointed out, even those effects are now being found to have a physiological basis as well–altered brain chemistry and activity for instance.

You can abuse your body with your choice of food and drink and ingestion of other substances for years without being aware of the harmful changes going on inside your mind and body, until you are finally diagnosed with cancer, diabetes or you have a heart attack. Your soul is the same. Just because you cannot see the damage does not mean it is not there.
 
“That Thy beloved may be delivered.”

I wish to terrify them, says God, in order that struck by fear they may rise from the bed of sin and return to me. In their affliction they will rise early to Me.

Yes, the Lord, although he sees us so ungrateful and worthy of punishment, is eager to free us from it, because however ungrateful we may be, he loves us and wishes us well. Give us help from trouble. Thus, in sum, prayed David; and thus ought we to pray. Grant, O Lord, that this scourge which now afflicts us may open our eyes, so that we depart from sin; because if we do not here abandon it, sin will lead us to eternal damnation, which is a scourge enduring forever.’

:’. . . God has inflicted the severest chastisement on the world, sending deluges of water and fire from heaven, in punishment of the sin of incontinence. . .’

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, Doctor of the Church
 
That’s really interesting about the brain physiology changes with lying; I hadn’t heard about that. It doesn’t surprise me, though, we know very little about how the brain works.

Anyone who knows some old sourpuss and some nice old person knows how chronic anger can actually change your looks!
 
First off, I think we need to differentiate the physical effects of actions from actions that solely affect your appearance. Surely overindulging on a bad diet can leave you unhealthy but having a perverted mindset certainly isn’t going to give you a sharp nose and a villainous-looking mustache. Lying isn’t gonna make your nose grow either (contrary to Pinnochio :rolleyes:).
 
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