Adultery Without Consequences!

By Dr jarlat Uche opara

If adultery were to be no sin, would love still be enough restraint? Forceful enough to stay away from it?

If heaven attached no warning, and conscience bore no sting, would hearts still choose fidelity simply because they cherish the one they vowed to love? Expressing contentment and discipline even when there was no consequences?

If the Scriptures were silent, if morality took no stand, and if society placed no shame upon it, would a man still turn his eyes away for the sake of honouring the woman who trusts him?
Would a woman still guard her heart for the sake of preserving the tenderness of the home she helped build?

If the fear of divine judgement were removed, would reverence for God still inspire faithfulness?
Would people still ask themselves, “How can I wound the God who loves me, even if He calls this no sin?”
Would love for God still regulate the impulses of desire? If consequences were erased—no broken homes, no distrust, no silent tears—would the human heartstill recognise that betrayal, even without punishment, is a wound inflicted on another soul?

If pleasure became harmless, at least on the surface, would commitment still be sacred? Would loyalty still be chosen—not demanded, not enforced, not commanded—just chosen, because love is weighty enough to anchor wandering hearts?

If adultery bore no penalty, would people discover their true selves? Would some find that virtue was never their conviction but only their fear? Or would others prove that fidelity was never about consequences but about character?

If adultery were to be no sin, would you still stay faithful—
for love,
for honour,
for covenant,
for God?

Or would the absence of sin reveal the true strength or fragility of the love we claim to carry?

If adultery were no sin, would you still choose faithfulness? The consequences of sin have made some people who would have graciously unlaced their shoes to keep it laced not because of the joy and conviction that it is proper to wear shoes laced but because of the consequences, pains and judgment that come with an unlaced shoes.

Ask yourself these deep questions. Whatever your mind tells you would be a good assessment of ones level of purity, decency, discipline and unconditional love for God, ones spouse and the intentionality of living a free life of faithfulness even in a non judgment
/ no consequence sin dispensation.

The truth is, there are many things we do, not out of conviction, brokenness etc of mind but because of sheer compulsion and sense of duty and obligation not to offend God and bear the weight of condemnation and punishment that come with it. How many would still flee from adultery if it were no sin considering the depth of temptation that wrap around it?

Don’t claim to be a Christian until you convinced yourself to love God not out of duty and fear of losing out in his favour and benevolence but because of unconditional love, even when there are no consequence for hatred and no punishment for sin.

#Fr Blunt