Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.PCS 1/10/84; site ahuta.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!ahuta!ecl From: ecl@ahuta.UUCP (e.leeper) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Re; Christian Singles (and sex) Message-ID: <200@ahuta.UUCP> Date: Tue, 11-Dec-84 22:18:42 EST Article-I.D.: ahuta.200 Posted: Tue Dec 11 22:18:42 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 13-Dec-84 02:06:36 EST References: <4325@cbscc.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Information Systems Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 23 REFERENCES: <4325@cbscc.UUCP> > The bible says that adultery is a sin. So, the question is: just when is > one committing adultery? I won't overstep the tone of this news group by > quoting a bunch of scripture. Just listen to yourconscience. No, > not that, that's just your genitals. Your CONSCIENCE. You do have one... > don't you? "adultery--voluntary sexual intercourse between a married man and someone other than his wife or between a married woman and someone other than her husband" (Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary) So two unmarried people CANNOT commit adultery with each other. This was what you were trying to say, right? (But what does the original Hebrew mean anyway? Quibbling about the Old Testament in English is a relatively futile occupation.) Evelyn C. Leeper ==> Note new net address: ...ihnp4!ahuta!ecl (Mail sent to my old address will be forwarded temporarily.)