Aiding Sin And Abetting Sinners
Posted by Jim on March 22, 2007
An interesting question was posed me today: is it right to help people sin? And if you do, does that make you sin too?
The short answer is, no to the first and yes to the second. Is it right to help people sin? No. For example, if someone is going to steal something from the store, and you know about it before they do it, but you give them your car keys so they can get to the store, then you have helped them sin. Similarly, if you provide them with gas or you help them in any way to do the evil they plan, then you have helped them sin.
So, naturally, if you help others sin, then you too have sinned. Let’s say that your son or daughter is about to go egg a house at Halloween and you give them the money to buy eggs or the eggs themselves, then you are a partner in their sin and thereby become as sinful as they.
In other words, when you help someone to do something wrong, you’ve done wrong too. If little Nancy is on her way to make life miserable for the town, and you fill her tank with gas, you have a part in terrorizing the town too. And God will hold you as accountable as he does little Nancy.
