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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Pesmard Flurrmn)
Newsgroups: net.religion.christian
Subject: Re: fornication and Christianity
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Date: Wed, 30-Jan-85 10:32:50 EST
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> On the other hand, we are, indeed, perfectly free to fornicate.  However,
> Paul also commented (in passages on a different topic, but it applies here)
> "Be careful, however, that the exercise of your freedom does not become a
> stumbling block to the weak", and "'Everything is permissible' -- but not
> everything is beneficial.  'Everything is permissible' -- but not everything
> is constructive." [SARGENT]

Why MUST everything we do be be "beneficial"?  "Constructive?"  Isn't life
full of things that are neither (though not antipodal to either)?  Don't many
of those things heighten the overall experience of life?

Just a question.  (Or four.)  It does seem that many people see their religions
as a way of ordering their lives to distinguish what they "SHOULD" do from
what they "SHOULDN'T", so that they can adhere to a list of such things and
order their lives around it.
-- 
BRIAN:  "You're all different!"
CROWD:  "YES, WE'RE ALL DIFFERENT!"			Rich Rosen
MAN:    "I'm not ... "			     {ihnp4 | harpo}!pyuxd!rlr