Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site gitpyr.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!gatech!gitpyr!msj From: msj@gitpyr.UUCP (Mike St. Johns) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Re; Christian Singles (and sex) Message-ID: <425@gitpyr.UUCP> Date: Fri, 14-Dec-84 13:56:45 EST Article-I.D.: gitpyr.425 Posted: Fri Dec 14 13:56:45 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 16-Dec-84 06:13:28 EST References: <4325@cbscc.UUCP> <200@ahuta.UUCP> Reply-To: msj@gitpyr.UUCP (Mike St. Johns) Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology Lines: 29 Summary: In article <200@ahuta.UUCP> ecl@ahuta.UUCP (e.leeper) writes: >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.) > Two unmarried people commit Fornication (such an awful sounding term for such a fun activity). (If I remember my Bible correctly (being as its been many years) this too is a sin. *sigh* ) -- Mike St. Johns Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 ...!{akgua,allegra,amd,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo,ut-ngp}!gatech!gitpyr!msj