(the sound of my hands clapping) Jason Kruse Trisha Cummings wrote: > Hi Cindy, > > Couple of points here. > > I make no moral choices for anyone else. Please note - yesterday > about 15 minutes apart I posted opposing views on the spanking issue. Of > course you do say to me - how openminded and generous - when we all know I a > vehemently against violence. To you brought the abortion issue - killing is > killing is killing in my view and I choose not to do it - I try to kill > nothing - I carry bugs outside. I have certainly accidently about 20 years > ago I hit a squirrel with my car - to this day I remember it and grieve over > the little squirrel soul. I would not have an abortion - however, do not > place myself in the position of God and decided what someone else should or > should nor do. I have noticed most Pro_lifer are also very much for the > Death sentence and guns - etc. So some killing is okay as along as you so > determine it is and some isn't. In otherwords - you play God. > > I have have been extremely open about the fact I am not, have never > been and will never be Christian and yet you seek to pursaude me with the > very book - I do not believe in. Yep, that will certainly change my mind. > And I don't know whether you are the disabled one or you have a disabled > spouse or child - but do read Leviticus 21 - verses 16 thru 23 - in the KJV > version - which I understand is the irrefuable truth. I feel it says much > about God's views on the disabled - God - speaking to Moses..... > > 21:16 - And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, > 21:17 - Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in their > generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer > the bread of his God. > 21:18 - For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not > approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or > any thing superfluous, > 21:19 - Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded, > 21:20 - Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or > be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken; > 21:21 - No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall > come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire: he > hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his > God. > 21:22 - He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of > the holy. > 21:23 - Only he shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto the > altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my > sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them. > 21:24 - And Moses told it unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the > children of Israel. > > Seems your "God" feels the disabled are a descration in his > sanctuaries and doesn't want them there. Gee, certainly,the God I would want > if I where disabled. > > The Bible may be quoted to prove or disprove anything - Please get a > clue. If you find it necessary to tell your child - Its wrong to hit another > person and then hit - spank them to punish them at least have the have the > intestinal fortitude to see you are not practicing what you are preaching. > So tell your children - you may not hit another person until you have > children - then it is okay, becasue it is sactioned by GOD. > > Now ,next time - give your own opinion - I respect that. I also can > quote the Bible to prove anything I want. I am however forbidden to harm. To > argue with you - if you are a BA - is an act futility, and to agrue with > another - could have them question their faith, and be considered an act of > harm. Therefore - when I do not refute your Bible verse horse hockey - It is > becasue I choose not to Harm, not becasue I can't refute them. I can. Not > only that I have 3 different versions of the Bible - ironically they all say > something very different. I have chosen the above as an example. I already > know what your going to say about quoting out of context, and all the other > arguements. Let it go - I will never choose Christian over my beliefs - but > I also don't expect you to give up your Christian beliefs. > > Brightest Blessings > Trisha