Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ucsfcgl.UUCP
Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!arnold
From: arnold@ucsfcgl.UUCP (Ken Arnold%UCB)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Christians, Sex, and the Gillette Challenge
Message-ID: <356@ucsfcgl.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 1-Oct-84 21:38:13 EDT
Article-I.D.: ucsfcgl.356
Posted: Mon Oct  1 21:38:13 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 3-Oct-84 05:43:25 EDT
References: <1012@akgua.UUCP>
Organization: Computer Graphics Lab, San Francisco
Lines: 27

>Remember we don't fully understand the full implications of the parallel
>between man/wife and Christ/church - there is some mystical element
>there.  We violate that unrepently at our own risk ! Paul warns us that
>sexual immorality hurts our bodies directly as well as spiritual
>damage.
>
>Bob Brown {...ihnp4!akgua!rjb}

Two questions arise in my mind:

1.	If we don't fully understand the parallel, how can we know if
	we are violating it, repentantly or not?

2.	I can understand accepting Paul as a spiritual expert (after all,
	millions of good people have), but I don't know of his
	physilogical credentials.  I have not seen any scientific study
	which shows that what Paul belived to be sexually immoral is
	physically damaging.  Yet, since we are talking about physical
	harm to our bodies, one would expect such evidence to exist.  I
	have seen studies showing that _guilt_ can cause physical harm,
	but that can be prevented by changing one's attitude, and then
	the sexual immorality could be continued without physical harm,
	from the guilt anyway.  So what physical harm are we discussing
	here?  (Let us not degenerate to some extreme examples of sado-
	masochism which are not only harmful but rather rare.)

		Ken Arnold