{"id":12586,"date":"2007-09-26T21:14:04","date_gmt":"2007-09-27T02:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=12586"},"modified":"2019-10-08T21:16:24","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T02:16:24","slug":"what-happens-if-you-disobey-the-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/what-happens-if-you-disobey-the-bible\/","title":{"rendered":"What happens if you disobey the Bible?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t<h2>Question:<\/h2>\n<p>What do Christians believe will happen, if they disobey or go against the teachings of the Bible?<\/p>\n\t<h2>Answer:<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<em>Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you, and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire, giving vengeance to those who don&#8217;t know God, and to those who don&#8217;t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus, who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,when he comes to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired among all those who have believed (because our testimony to you was believed) in that day<\/em>&#8221; (II Thessalonians 1:6-10).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: What do Christians believe will happen, if they disobey or go against the teachings of the Bible? Answer: &#8220;Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you, and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[992,179],"class_list":["post-12586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-disobedience","tag-sin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":34721,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/why-is-it-so-bad-to-disobey-god\/","url_meta":{"origin":12586,"position":0},"title":"Why is it so bad to disobey God?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"September 12, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: Hi, I have a question. 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