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From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Re; Christian Singles (and sex)
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Date: Fri, 14-Dec-84 03:29:23 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 14 03:29:23 1984
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>> 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?