Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: bnr-fos!bmers58!davem@watmath.waterloo.edu (Dave Mielke) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Strangers in a Strange World Message-ID: Date: 4 Jan 90 06:22:00 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada Lines: 18 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article car@cblpn.att.com (Clarissa A Brower) writes: >If God truly wanted us to not have sex if children were not a possible outcome, >there would have been a statement in the Old Testament forbidding a woman >past the age of menopause to have sexual intercouse. No such statement exists. You have misquoted me. I did not say that God commanded that children must be the result of intimate relations. What I said was that it is God who decides when intimate relations are to result in conception. We should be thankful that God has done things in such a way that a couple rarely have children when they are beyond an age at which they could easily care for them until they are fully grown. Dave Mielke, 613-726-0014 856 Grenon Avenue Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K2B 6G3