The bible rejects doing wrong so that good may come

[Lamb]

Romans 3:8 Why not say—as some slanderously claim that we say—“Let us do evil that good may result”? Their condemnation is just!

I've seen people online encouraging things that others could perceive as sin because they think the end result will be good.

Have you encountered this behavior too? The bible discourages that type of thinking.

 

[Frankj]

Romans 3:8 Why not say—as some slanderously claim that we say—“Let us do evil that good may result”? Their condemnation is just!

I've seen people online encouraging things that others could perceive as sin because they think the end result will be good.

Have you encountered this behavior too? The bible discourages that type of thinking.

I would like it if you could give some examples of those things, they don't have to be actual ones just representative ones would work, for further specific discussion. We all have a tendency to see our own thinking as righteous unless examined from different standpoints of others.

FWIW, I always try to look for lies, told knowingly or unknowingly, deliberately or accidentally, since good things do not come from lies, only bad things do.

In the end, the truth will always serve better than a lie.

 

[Lamb]

There hasn't been anything recent, so I'd rather just leave this to be a general topic.

 

[Frankj]

There hasn't been anything recent, so I'd rather just leave this to be a general topic.

In that case, this would be worth considering:

Ezekiel 33:2-6: Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, and the people of the land take one man from among them all, and set him for their watchman: if he see the sword coming upon the land, and blow the trumpet, and warn the people; then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning, if the sword come and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head.

He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood is upon him: whereas had he taken warning, he would have delivered his soul.

But if the watchman see the sword coming, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned, if the sword come and take a person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.

 

[BruceLeiter]

@Lamb, a very true principle is, "The ends do not justify the means." In other words, if the means is sinful, it is wrong, even though a person might have good motives. Sin is always sin.

An example of this false teaching is in modern culture as follows. In a movie in which the Deputy U.S. Marshall Bass Reeves is a character, the film pictures him approving of a bank robbery so that a good result may happen. He was a committed Christian who never, ever would have approved of any bank robbery, and neither would God have approved of it, because the commandment he announced with his own voice says, "You shall not steal." I know Bass Reeves pretty well because I wrote a historical novel about his career, The Best in the Wild West (Amazon).