Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site opus.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!hao!cires!nbires!opus!rcd From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Re; Christian Singles (and sex) Message-ID: <977@opus.UUCP> Date: Fri, 14-Dec-84 03:29:23 EST Article-I.D.: opus.977 Posted: Fri Dec 14 03:29:23 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 19-Dec-84 02:44:24 EST References: <4325@cbscc.UUCP> <200@ahuta.UUCP> Organization: NBI,Inc, Boulder CO Lines: 18 >> The bible says that adultery is a sin. So, the question is: just when is >> one committing adultery?... >... >"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. > ... > (But what does the original Hebrew mean anyway?... The word for sexual intercourse between two unmarried people is `fornication'. Distinct words exist for the two concepts. So is the proscription of `adultery' a serious mistranslation? or are folks intentionally misusing the Bible to grind an axe about premarital sex? -- Dick Dunn {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd (303)444-5710 x3086 ...Are you making this up as you go along?