Sin & Forgiveness

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I do all those four things you list too, for living a moral life. It appears we come to the same conclusions

Why did he get caught? I can't possibly know the specifics. Maybe he made a mistake, maybe someone became suspicious, maybe he tried to bribe the wrong person... Life is complicated, and it appears you're trying to reduce it to simplistic narratives so that it all fits nicely together. I can't stop you believing that two events are directly linked by cause and effect, but I have no idea how you can test such a thing.

Realistically, good and bad things happen to everyone. So if you predict "doing that thing you just did will mean you eventually get something good/bad happen to you", then you are predicting something that is almost certain to happen anyway.

The more shit you cause in this life, the more likely people will get fed up or catch you out. So that's really no mystery. The better you treat people, the better in general they will treat you. If I go smash all my neighbour's windows, there are going to be repercussions. That's not karma, it's just common sense. They don't want me smashing their windows so they're going to do something about it.