Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: fuzzy@elaine3.stanford.edu (Daniel Zappala) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Biblical Sexual Morality Message-ID: Date: 22 Mar 91 03:52:42 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Stanford University - AIR Lines: 21 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article janski@vipunen.hut.fi (Janne Olavi Salmi) writes: >[Daniel Zappala commented > ... Since God fully knows the human > reproductive system, he must have had his reasons for declaring masturbation > and homosexuality as sins. I'm willing to take his word for it >--clh] > >The Bible doesn't say that masturbation is a sin. Unfortunately, my article was misunderstood, purely through my own fault. The original poster took the stance that the Bible said masturbation was a sin, and he felt this was due to cultural bias and a misundertanding of the reproductive system. My point was that whatever laws *are* in the Bible, they are from God, and not from humans. I used masturbation as an example only since he did. Now whether or not it actually is labeled a sin in the Bible, I'll leave to the current thread that other people have concentrated on. :) Daniel Zappala