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- From: clifton9220@iscsvax.uni.edu
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: To the discussionaries!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.013041.8795@iscsvax.uni.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 01:30:41 -0600
- References: <1992Nov11.190043.8658@iscsvax.uni.edu> <adams.721594875@spssig>
- Organization: University of Northern Iowa
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- In article <adams.721594875@spssig>, adams@spss.com (Steve Adams) writes:
- > clifton9220@iscsvax.uni.edu writes:
- >
- >>---Clinton is not the enemy. --- Just because he is the president that supports
- >>many anti- christian ideals (gay rights, abortion on demand, etc.), he is only
- >>a tool that God uses to wake up his children and to shake the fence that people
- >>are trying to balance on. We need to love our brothers and sisters (even
- >>clinton) and hate the sin. This also is true for hating abortion but loving
- >>those who had them. We need to tell the truth but not judge, that is up to
- >>God.
- >>
- >>---The only thing different not from before the election is that now we have a
- >>new challange to face. Besides, as we see from those resigning before clinton
- >>comes in. Many experienced people see him for what he was now --talk just
- >>talk. I don't want to side track, but seeing that he wanted to bomb and begin
- >>a ground war with Serbia just a few months ago. What will he do know?
- >>
- >>I think that is good for now. Peter -- stay in there and all you others for
- >>the unborn. Maybe people will wake up soon.
- >
- > Ken...
- >
- > If you can convince people to follow your moral standards willingly,
- > then there is no problem. But to write Christian moral standards into law
- > is wrong. The New Testament tells us that no man is saved by the law, nor
- > can we be. Passing laws making certain sins illegal does nothing to
- > further God's cause, nor does it prevent the sin.
-
- That scripture taken out of context was refering to the LAW of God not man.
-
- >
- > Work instead to educate people as to *why* they should willingly follow
- > the strict moral code you propose.
-
- I propose nothing. I only act as God tells me.
- ...Ken!
- >
- > -Steve
- > --
- > The opinions expressed above are those of the author and not SPSS, Inc.
- > -------------------
- > adams@spss.com Phone: (312) 329-3522
- > Steve Adams "Space-age cybernomad" Fax: (312) 329-3558
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