From: rpitts@emperor.gatech.edu (Richard Pitts)
Newsgroups: talk.religion.misc
Subject: Re: Bring On the Cases....
Date: 15 Oct 92 13:22:44 GMT
Organization: CERL-EE, Georgia Institue of Technology

In article <1992Oct15.063326.22299@wetware.com> drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux) writes:
|rpitts@emperor.gatech.edu (Richard Pitts) writes:
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|] In article <1992Oct14.141304.18904@wetware.com> drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux) writes:
|] |ksand@apple.com (Kent Sandvik) writes:
|] |
|] |] > rpitts@emperor.gatech.edu (Richard Pitts) writes:
|] |] > >Depends on the situation - I can see why one would not want a homosexual
|] |] > >representing one's company.
|] |
|] |Please Do feel Free to Clarify this point at any time Richard.
|] 
|] I don't think a homosexual should be representing a group that 
|] sees homosexuality as wrong (e.g., boy scouts) - a group that 
|] teaches ethics to youth.
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|so you want to leave them in the hands of Hetro's?????

For the majority, yes - there are exceptions.

|The place where the child molestors are to be found?

We were talking about homosexuals and I guess there are no
child molestors therein, huh?  They seem to be immune from
that, don't they?  :-)

There are several groups of people I would not want to 
put in leadership/authority type positions.  

|Hum.....

Ok, if you want to talk about child molestors, what is your
knowledge of it?

I was the victim of sexual battery at the hands of a man, who 
was probably at least was a pedophile and maybe a bi-sexual,
for he was married with 3 or 4 kids.  He holds a medical degree.

|want to swap stories about the recent rash of problems
|that the Roman Catholic Church has been having?

Are you personally acquainted with this or are you just wanting
to gossip???

|and when you get to moral 'absolutes' will you
|clarify if you are for or against the bible,
|and then also about the biblical stand on slavery.....

Do you remember one the biggest OT events (Exodus) - where God
set the Hebrews free from slavery???????????

Let's see what Paul said:

   1 Cor 7:21   Were you a slave when you were called? Don't let it trouble
      you--although IF YOU CAN GAIN YOUR FREEDOM, DO SO.
   1 Cor 7:22   For he who was a slave when he was called by the Lord is the
      Lord's freedman; similarly, he who was a free man when he was called is
      Christ's slave.
   1 Cor 7:23   You were bought at a price; DO NOT BECOME SLAVES OF MEN.

   1 Cor 12:13   For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body--whether
      Jews or Greeks, slave or free--and we were all given the one Spirit to
      drink.

Let us look at the list that is CONTRARY to sound doctrine:

   1 Tim 1:9   We also know that law is made not for the righteous but for
      lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and sinful, the unholy and
      irreligious; for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers,
   1 Tim 1:10   for adulterers and perverts, for SLAVE TRADERS and liars and
      perjurers--and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine
   1 Tim 1:11   that conforms to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which
      he entrusted to me.


Here Paul tells a slaves owner not to take this former slave back as
a slave, but as a brother:

   Phile 1:15   Perhaps the reason he was separated from you for a little
      while was that you might have him back for good--
   Phile 1:16   no longer as a slave, but better than a slave, as a dear
      brother. He is very dear to me but even dearer to you, both as a man and
      as a brother in the Lord.
   Phile 1:17   So if you consider me a partner, welcome him as you would
      welcome me.
   Phile 1:18   If he has done you any wrong or owes you anything, charge it
      to me.

Even in the OT, the slave was to be taken care of:

   Deu 23:14   For the LORD your God moves about in your camp to protect you
      and to deliver your enemies to you. Your camp must be holy, so that he
      will not see among you anything indecent and turn away from you.
   Deu 23:15   If a slave has taken refuge with you, do not hand him over to
      his master.
   Deu 23:16   Let him live among you wherever he likes and in whatever town
      he chooses. Do not oppress him.


|ciao
|drieux

For Christ and His Kingdom,
Richard Pitts
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