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To: Judith Anne; 1000 silverlings; Alex Murphy; bkaycee; blue-duncan; boatbums; caww; ...
1 Corinthians 5 1It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father’s wife. 2And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you.

3For though absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing. 4When you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus, 5you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.

6 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? 7Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. 8Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

9I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people— 10 not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. 11But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler—not even to eat with such a one. 12For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge? 13God judges those outside. "Purge the evil person from among you."

Here is the clear command of Paul in the Bible on how to deal with sexual immorality within the church.

Why has the Catholic church not done so? Why have they been disobedient for so long for so much of it's history in following God's clear, plainly stated commands concerning this issue?

Do you consider this the ravings of a mentally unbalanced, contradictory kook? Was he wrong about how to deal with sexual immorality within the church?

Is the Catholic church right for not following these directives, or is it wrong?

1,367 posted on 01/20/2011 10:25:41 AM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom
Why has the Catholic church not done so? Why have they been disobedient for so long for so much of it's history in following God's clear, plainly stated commands concerning this issue?

Why hasn't YOUR church done so? I don't care what church it is, there is no proof offered that your church has handled the problem of clergy abuse any better than the Catholics have. I think we can rightly guess that there is quite a lot covered up by the insurance companies, from the little crazy denoms.

1,374 posted on 01/20/2011 10:37:30 AM PST by Judith Anne (Holy Mary, Mother of God, please pray for us sinners now, and at the hour of our death.)
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