Now. You are an honorable man NOW. Here's what I wonder about though tom. If given absolute power to do whatever you want without consequences would that "honorable" man get corrupted? Just as I wonder whom I would be if I were extremely wealthy? Would I be "one of THEM"? You know the hoity toity greedy self-serving arrogant folks who think money confers quality/superiortiy and therefore I'd be way better than others who weren't wealthy? I'd like to think it wouldn't but I cannot possibly KNOW that for certain. Thank you for your reply! :)
I am an honorable man---because that is what I intended to become--because it is a requirement for the Kingdom and eternal life. And ultimately I will have to answer to God for all that I have done. And while it seems that God offers forgiveness, He also seems to demand restitution. So anything I "gained" by doing whatever I wanted because there were no consequences on earth, I would have to undo and make reparations for having done, and/or suffer appropriate punishment.
There are a number of things in my life that I have not done even though there would have been no consequences for me. But there would have been consequences for others.
I am, within reasonable interpretations of the term, "my brother's keeper," and God does not offer dispensations for that principle.
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