Posted on 08/18/2018 10:09:46 AM PDT by Salvation
Same here. I used to drink “wine coolers,” back in the mid-80s, and then, due to licensing laws in the South, they changed most of them to beer derivatives. I could smell it the minute I opened the bottle.
Answer: "No, dear."
Which is completely truthful......it's not the dress' fault she's fat.
As my lawyer once advised me,
“If you tell the truth, you’re going to jail.”
Best lawyer I ever had.
Thank you very much. God bless.
Hardly. Do you even know what the term "mortal sin" means?
Not lying doesn't mean you're obliged to tell anyone information that they don't have a right to know.
Not lying doesn't mean you have to be an evildoer's accomplice..
By which I mean "Baloney Sandwich."
Baloney sandwich plus pickle.
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The words often translated, “Thou shalt not kill,” are generally understood to mean, in the original Hebrew, “Do not commit murder,” and the distinctions between “killing” in general - including killing animals - homicide, and murder are broken out in the laws of every culture.
Bearing false witness “against” your neighbor implies an intent to do harm to the neighbor. Telling your neighbor a “fish story” is not going to harm him. We do have to watch in distinguishing between a “neighbor” and an “enemy,” because Jesus overturned the common understanding of those categories. However, if you consider that the Nazi officer is your “neighbor,” you are doing him good, not harm, by not giving him information that might lead to his harming an innocent person.
We often view “doing good” for a person as “letting him (or helping him) do what he wants,” but that is a very simplistic viewpoint. Your child wants to eat dog poop. Do you let him?
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Kids want to eat candy all the time. Letting them would be no different than letting them eat dog poop if that’s what they want. We often confuse right and wrong for what feels good and what doesn’t. That’s the deception that allows evil to exist in goodly form. You just have to look a little below the surface. Very often wrong things feels good. Those are the paving stones along the broad road that leads to destruction.
Hardly. Do you even know what the term "mortal sin" means?
Yes I do....and it meets the definition as outlined by Roman Catholicism.
And I know the concept is a man-made contrivance of Roman Catholicism.....it is not a Scriptural concept.
Just this one discussion of lying shows just how often people sin.
I tell ya.....if I were Roman Catholic and not a Christian I wouldn't let the priest out of my sight I'd be so scared I'd done something wrong and have lost Heaven.
Fortunately, Christianity offers a better plan.
My point exactly. Looking at the bigger picture, as Jesus did, “Love your neighbor as yourself, and ‘your neighbor’ includes the person you least want to include,” we can reach a conclusion that it cannot be a moral obligation to help or to allow a person to do something that is wrong - because sinning hurts that person’s soul and is probably stupid, too - or pragmatically damaging.
We may not be able, realistically, to stop a person from doing something wrong or inadvisable, but we cannot have a moral obligation to facilitate his actions.
Yeeeeaaaahhhhh.....riiiiiiight.
You really think you're fooling anyone with that??
I hope you're heading to your priest tonight for confession.
Well put.
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