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    Struggling to come to terms with something I have read in the bible.

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    Struggling to come to terms with something I have read in the bible.

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    Struggling to come to terms with something I have read in the bible.

    Getting a little lost with the quotes being commented on so this quote, I believe is freespirit's,: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Again Mr Cheese if you do all of the above you are one with God, there is no...
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    My wife died 2 years ago today.....

    Sharing your grief and celebration touches my spirit. I feel for you, your family. This too brings tears to my eyes. Remembering our loved one's keeps them alive. Life is eternal because our existence can not be negated even when we die.
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    Struggling to come to terms with something I have read in the bible.

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    Morality

    What Socrates had to say is only a half truth. The other half is the misled action of individuals and society. For man to behave well, reasoning must be strengthened by mental and moral virtues. Moral virtues are the same as human virtues because they are with reason; it is a balance of a...
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    Morality

    Socrates would have you believe that "men don't do evil knowingly," because their reasoning is misled concerning a course of action. To behave well man must strengthen mental and moral virtues.
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    Putting Faith In A Faithful God

    The short of it, Yes.
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    Morality

    Adulterous, as in the Bible, by the standards I listed, does not condone said relationship and primarily so because of the hypocrisy. There are other instances in the Bible that indicate that hypocrisy is the issue also; especially with homosexuality. But what is even more confusing is that...
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    Putting Faith In A Faithful God

    It is complicated and yet probably so simple that mankind just can't see it, salvation. A lot of what I write, comment on are bits and pieces of the answer. A literalist would accept the Bible passages, word for word. Often the issue has conflicts in the Bible. There are different genre in...
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    Struggling to come to terms with something I have read in the bible.

    Great post.
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    Struggling to come to terms with something I have read in the bible.

    There is a lot of concern in your post but I respectfully disagree with your interpretation of morality, or its use concerning homosexuality and the interpretation of Biblical verses concerning human sexuality, homosexuality.
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    Struggling to come to terms with something I have read in the bible.

    This post is really a good post. Thanks for the effort.
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    Struggling to come to terms with something I have read in the bible.

    I don't disagree with what you say about the living Word. When I talk about the Bible being a living document, I am saying that it addresses modern day issues too. Given that social issues were different in Patriarchal times, the Bible is still valid today. What I disagree with is your...
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    Morality

    Remembering the ELCA's long drawn out study of human sexuality. In the draft of this study it stated that adultery is secretive, deceitful, a lie, and a hypocrisy; that it is a serious sin when a spouse becomes sexually involved with someone else. The definition used by the draft was a...
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    Morality

    This is a good post. If sexuality is a moral issue, and I agree with you, the issue of whether homosexuality is immoral is something that needs to be addressed by communities.
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    Morality

    Read my position closer and you will see that there is a difference between being exploited psychologically but never in the sense of one's spirit. You can take away from an individual, say their rights but, you cannot take away their thoughts, their being. As in the psychic of an individual...
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    Morality

    Locally, the city of Fairbanks, Ak., there is a problem with chronic public inebriants. The city council is trying to establish a list of chronic inebriants and making a law that forbids bars and liquor stores from selling liquor to these people. Individuals have a right to privacy and this...
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    Struggling to come to terms with something I have read in the bible.

    Others may not take Paul seriously but I can't take a literalist's interpretation of Paul seriously. What you are doing is throwing your absolute literalist's view at others as if you are better than them because you are Christian. If I make available an interpretation, you condemn me and...
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    Morality

    Nobody can deny anyone their claim to be a person. No totalitarian ruler has ever succeeded in assimilating one's centeredness into their own centeredness. You may be able to destroy or exploit another but you cannot exploit their spirit. That is to say how homosexuals relate to others is...
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