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From: alfalfa!fullmer@dover.sps.mot.com (Glen Fullmer)
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Subject: Re: SOM
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Date: 24 Sep 89 20:41:34 GMT
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Stan Reeves says:

>  Should the "cut off one's hand, pluck out one's eye" in the Sermon on the
>  Mount be taken literally?  Well, sorta. I believe Jesus was 
>  that serious about people dealing with the sin in their lives.  The problem
>  with actually carrying this out is, as Darren Provine pointed out, that sin
>  can never really be traced to a particular part of the body.
                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Can't sin be traced to the brain?
i.e.  "If your brain offends thee cut it out!"

You go first!




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