Thou Shalt Not Steal

I have an answer and a question: But I'd like you to read this and take your time, because I'm hoping it will prick at your hearts...
I ask us if using cracked software and unpaid for software makes us thieves in the eyes of God.

Software piracy is obtaining software or electronic resources by illegal means or using a software without the license to doing so...

I read an article earlier today and it spoke about one who is a professing Christian cannot be a contra- Christian. What I mean is one who practices sin while calling themselves "Christian", and the result is, they aren't. Example: A thieving Christian, or a gay Christian or a... well I suppose you get the idea... Its like living the concept of "Syncretism" or doing it because its convenient.


Let us look at these verses:

Thou shalt not steal. -  Exodus 20:15

1 Corinthians 6:

9   Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

10  NOR THIEVES, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

So this is they that have no inheritance with Christ.

Matthew 5:

29  And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

30  And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

"offend" means to cause to sin.

Putting a little differently:
And if using Photoshop or any other software or e-book (that was cracked, or without payment) causes you to sin, cut it off or find an alternative that doesn't break the law.

If torrenting movies and software causes you to sin, then cut it off... or stream them... from legal sites

I think these verse can apply to our attitudes as well, if we say we are Christians, we should desire to drop these things, not for ourselves but for Christ. Deny ourselves...

If I could take the verse literally, I'd sooner pluck my eyes and ears out because of what my environment accommodates...
Now, I speak not of being perfect, oh that I were incorruptible, I'd be weeping, but that is what we wait on, bodies incorruptible. Changed. Amen! Till then we praise the position of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Righteous, Advocate, High Priest. Forgiver of sins... Praise God. Its wonder God doesn't kill us when we sin... Such love, that's why we can go to Him so freely. Can you imaging sacrificing a cow before coming before God...


We cannot blame the environment, we are the ones who decide to sin or not when Satan brings himself and then when we fall prey and don't pray... we get weaker and then can't bother. We should lose the attitude, and flee self. FLEE SELF! We contend with the devil but we should flee ourselves, its a battle we can't win... not on our own.

Pray for the strength to overcome, till then, may God through Christ Jesus grant us peace... within our souls.

Don't let "Photoshop" kick you out of the Kingdom, and don't say in your heart "God understands when you now know that it is WRONG!!"

Don't support sin. Flee!!

God bless you in Jesus' Marvelous and Wonderful and Holy Name.