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- From: chrisl@stpaul.gov (Chris A Lyman)
- Subject: Re: Something's Missing!?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.173110.10325@pwcs.stpaul.gov>
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:31:10 GMT
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- jjprice@eos.ncsu.edu (JEFFREY JAMES PRICE) writes:
- >chrisl@stpaul.gov (Chris A Lyman) writes:
-
- >> cs225b26@eng-nxt09.cso.uiuc.edu (cs225 student) writes:
-
- >> [--fire and brimstone sermon deleted--]
-
- >> May I ask a question, as one God-fearing Christian to another?
-
- >> Is God playing some kind of "gotcha"-type game? I mean, if
- >> getting or administering an abortion merited eternal damnation,
- >> don't you think God would have explicitly warned us?
- >>
- >> Seriously, I believe that abortion, like most actions, is morally
- >> neutral. It is the context (something many of us are guilty of
- >> ignoring) that determines the rightness or wrongness of the action.
-
- > God has warned us of many things but we still ingnore him. What makes
- > you so sure that he has not warned us against abortion?(not saying that
- > he has its just that I haven't read to much of the Bible yet but I feel
- > that abortion is something he would not support).
-
- There's been a lot of bible study in this newsgroup, Jeff. There's nothing
- in scripture that explicitly forbids abortion. Numbers 5:11-31 _seems_
- to show that God mandates a forced abortion if a man's wife suspects her
- of being unfaithful, but not everyone agrees with that interpretation.
-
- Anyway, I'd like to make another point about moral relativism. In
- Corinthians (I think), Paul writes that women should be silent in church,
- and if something troubles them, to take it up with their husbands at
- home. Yet women are far from silent in church! They pray, sing in the
- choir, read lessons, participate in council meetings and in some churches,
- serve as pastors/priests. Are we all going to hell because we didn't
- listen to Paul?
-
- --
- Chris Lyman / email: chrisl@pwcs.stpaul.gov / Disclaimer: I said WHAT?
- "If you wants to get elected president, you'se got to think up some
- memoraboble homily so's school kids can be pestered into memorizin'
- it, even if they don't know what it means." -- Walt Kelly, "Pogo"
-