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To: TSgt
I’m a Christian and I don’t believe this is right. Christians beat their chest about abortion and contraception and then ostracize women who become pregnant out of wedlock. So much for loving the mother and child...

The Bible has other penalties for fornication and/or adultery ("Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil." Matthew 5:17) which most jurisdictions do not enforce.

What does the Bible say to do under these circumstances?

74 posted on 04/11/2012 10:45:59 AM PDT by nonsporting
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To: nonsporting

>>>What does the Bible say to do under these circumstances?<<<

5 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles—that a man has his father’s wife! 2 And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he who has done this deed might be taken away from among you. 3 For I indeed, as absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged (as though I were present) him who has so done this deed. 4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, along with my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, 5 deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

6 Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? 7 Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us. 8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral people. 10 Yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. 11 But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—not even to eat with such a person.

12 For what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside? 13 But those who are outside God judges. Therefore “put away from yourselves the evil person.” - 1 Corinthians 5:1-12


90 posted on 04/11/2012 11:18:25 AM PDT by Above My Pay Grade (The candidate I vote for will NOT have a CARE after his name.)
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To: nonsporting

The world already has the perfect society where everyone suspected of being a sinner is killed - Iran! They’ve got biblical morality perfected and they have even added to it. On the other hand, Christ established his church for and among sinners - I don’t think the followers of pure works righteousness would want to have anything to do with that.


93 posted on 04/11/2012 11:23:37 AM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: nonsporting

Perhaps you should read Luke 7:36 and John 7:53-8:11.

What would Jesus do?


130 posted on 04/11/2012 4:57:59 PM PDT by TSgt (The only reason I have one in the chamber at all times, is because it is impossible to have two in.)
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