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To: Lurking in Kansas

>> Oh really? LOL. I didn't realize it was my duty to marry. <<

Not to suggest that, in this age, your choice to remain single for now stems from evil desires, but, presuming you are a Christian, it IS your Christian duty to marry. Unless you want to join the religious life. The first commandment given to Adam and Eve was "Go forth and multiply." The first words God ever said about mankind was, "It is not right for Man to be alone." The Church fathers anathematized anyone who was single, not out of devotion to a consecration to remain a virgin for love of the Lord, but out of simple distates for marriage.


147 posted on 01/23/2007 8:40:48 AM PST by dangus (Pope calls Islam violent; Millions of Moslems demonstrate)
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To: dangus
...presuming you are a Christian, it IS your Christian duty to marry...

"Now for the matters you wrote about: It is good for a man not to marry."

1 Corinthians 7:1 (NIV)

;-)

153 posted on 01/23/2007 8:49:31 AM PST by Lurking in Kansas (Nothing witty here... move on.)
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