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To: realpatriot71
"So, in your opinion then, unless a particular activity is specifically mentioned, one cannot make a moral judgement based up the principle found in the Word of God?

Certainly you can make a moral judgment - for yourself. But unless something is addressed in the bible, we need to be careful that we aren't playing the Pharisee game, making up rules for everyone else to follow.

"I don't remember seeing the word "abortion," "cloning," nor the use of other intoxicants such as marijuana, heroin, and methamphetamine - are all moral since not specifically mentioned? Is drinking the only immoral vice, then?"

Abortion and cloning are not there, but murder is most definitely mentioned.

While those particular drugs are not mentioned, drunkeness is. Seems to me that covers anything that makes one 'high.'

"Are you saying that this same Godly principle cannot be applied to other selfish acts that hurt the body?"

No, I'm saying we need to be careful about making up rules for everyone else to follow when something is not addressed in a more direct manner in scripture. If that is a rule for you, then go for it.

But remember:

1 Corinthians 6:12 All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

While we would agree that smoking is not expedient, we can see from the passage above that it IS lawful.

235 posted on 03/10/2004 11:50:38 AM PST by MEGoody (Kerry - isn't that a girl's name? (Conan O'Brian))
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To: MEGoody
1 Corinthians 6:12 All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

Interesting. Furthermore, we can see from this passage, even aside from the health related issues of the Temple, Paul makes it quite clear at the end of this quote, that Christian liberty is under the principle of self-control. Forms of selfish indulgence become wrong when they bring a person into bondage - addition.

239 posted on 03/10/2004 11:35:21 PM PST by realpatriot71 ("A Republic, madam, if you can keep it" - Ben Franklin, 1787)
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To: MEGoody
That should have read: addiction. I'm not sure "addition" has an moral implications . . .
241 posted on 03/11/2004 2:07:12 AM PST by realpatriot71 ("A Republic, madam, if you can keep it" - Ben Franklin, 1787)
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