Re: POLITICS -- Marriage defined Biblically - Chris

[Guest guest]

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> Also, the Bible doesn't clearly, to my knowledge, offer any legal

definition

> of marriage.

>

Yes it does. 1 Corinthians 7 if you care to read it.

The Apostle says that it is better to be celibate, but if a

person could not restrain themselves - avoid fornication is how he

puts it - then " let every man have his own wife and every woman have

her own husband. "

And about homosexuality, Roman 1:26-27 says, " For this reason God gave

them up to dishonorable passions. Their woman exchanged natural

relations for unnatural, and the men likewise gave up natural

relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another,

men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in their own

persons the due penalty for their error. "

For us who believe, that's the Word on the subject.

Sharon

[Guest guest]

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--- In , " Sharon " <sharonz@v...>

> The Apostle says that it is better to be celibate, but if a

> person could not restrain themselves - avoid fornication is how he

> puts it - then " let every man have his own wife and every woman have

> her own husband. "

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Wow, what if we were all " better " ? I'm very ambitious and

competitive, so I'd like to be better than other people. No more sex.

I like that phrase " if a person could not restrain themselves " ... so

literary... hehehe... reminds me something one of my Amish farmer

friends told me (I doubt he made it up himself): " We don't believe in

birth-control, and we don't have any self-control " !!! When I'm

talking to married Amish guys sometimes and they learn I'm 27 and

unmarried, they like to express shock and vigorous dismay about how

much I'm missing... Sometimes the culture gap is amusing...

Mike

SE Pennsylvania

[Guest guest]

>> For us who believe, that's the Word on the subject. <<

" The bible constains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to

heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just

that they need more supervision " (Lynn Lavner)

Christie

[Guest guest]

> >> For us who believe, that's the Word on the subject. <<

>

> " The bible constains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362

admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't

love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision " (Lynn

Lavner)

>

> Christie

Good one! Humor is good!

Sharon

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 2/19/04 8:07:50 PM Eastern Standard Time,

sharonz@... writes:

> The Apostle says that it is better to be celibate, but if a

> person could not restrain themselves - avoid fornication is how he

> puts it - then " let every man have his own wife and every woman have

> her own husband. "

>

> And about homosexuality, Roman 1:26-27 says, " For this reason God gave

> them up to dishonorable passions. Their woman exchanged natural

> relations for unnatural, and the men likewise gave up natural

> relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another,

> men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in their own

> persons the due penalty for their error. "

Sharon,

Neither of these define marriage. Even if you stretch the passage to figure

the first passage admonishes men not to take husbands, and women not to take

wives, there is no basis whatosever in the passage to conclude that

defines a marriage as between a man and a woman. could very well have

defined

a marriage as between any two people, but considered only heterosexual

marriages moral, and considered homosexual marriages immoral.

Chris