Your mum's still dead, or The Case against Sinning

Any Christian is at risk of coming into contact with some variant of the following question, because it is as popular as it is silly:

"If everything can be forgiven, why bother with the virtues? Why not sin for most of my live and then repent last minute?"

There are two answers. The first, and somehow popular one, goes something like the following:

"Sin affects your disposition/hardens your heart/etc. -> You won't seek the forgiveness you will need."

There is no short way to express that, and it opens the door to more questions about how the Bible defines the heart versus how the medical community does it, et cetera ad nauseam. Lucky for us, the second answer is much shorter:

"Your mum's still dead."

Let us say that someone unjustly kills your mum, be it normal murder or drunk driving or whatever. Yes, you can forgive them. But that does not resurrect your mum. To use longer words and impress midwits, sin has irreversible temporal consequences.

You can fix a car, but you cannot un-crash it.

Even if getting absolutely plastered once and never drinking again may spare you the liver damage, you still spent a whole night being retarded and a whole next day hungover. You are not getting that time back.

The examples abound, but the conclusion is simple. Sin cannot be fully undone. What you do matters. Therefore, you matter. You matter so much that an omnipotent creator of everything found you worth dying for and actually went and did just that.

Much Love!