Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: bnr-fos!bmers58!davem@watmath.waterloo.edu (Dave Mielke) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: I Cor. 7:1 (was Re: Seventeenth Century Language) Message-ID: Date: 11 Oct 89 08:48:39 GMT Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada Lines: 33 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article bnr-fos!bmers58!davem@watmath.waterloo.edu (Dave Mielke) writes: (actually our moderator thoughtfully appended) >[I am posting these as is, because attempts to reach Dave asking for a >minor revision kept bouncing at an intermediate site. However in the >future, I'd appreciate it if authors would avoid the implication that >people with which they disagree are doing so because of a desire to >continue sinning. --clh] You are, of course, quite correct. That does look like what I was inplying, but it is really not what I meant. I intentionally made these accusations in the first person in an attempt to show that it is a weakness that we are all guilty of. We are all equally subject to the drawing power of not only all the sinful temptations which we are surrounded by in this world but also by our own sinful, fleshly desires. Watering down of the full force of the teachings that are contained in the Scriptures due to our tendancy to want to justify what we are doing need not be a conscious effort; we may be doing it at a more difficult to detect level in our thought processes. I am including myself in the list of those to whom these accusations apply. It is a fact of life in this world that we had better all be on guard against. If anyone notices me ever falling prey to this flaw then I would urge him to let me know. I am hereby giving our moderator permission to post such things at any time if they are accusations of any declaration that I have made pertaining to the Word of God because truth must prevail. I would rather be corrected then continue declaring something that is untruthful. I thank you all in advance for any such corrections. I also apologize for any incorrect inferrences that my rather forceful statement may have caused. Dave Mielke, 613-726-0014 856 Grenon Avenue Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K2B 6G3