From: darist@bluemoon.use.com (david stroop)
Subject: God's Warnings (Unconditional Love)
Organization: Blue Moon BBS ((614) 868-998[024])
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 13:28:14 EST

From: 9051467f@levels.unisa.edu.au (The Eidolon)
 
>In article <J0D0sB6w165w@bluemoon.rn.com>,
>darist@bluemoon.rn.com (david stroop) writes:
 
>>>     "If you be my worshiper, I'll be nice to you. If you don't 
>>>I'll hurt you"..........can you say "coerce" ? 
>> 
>> Can you say "Warning: DANGER!"
 
>Can you say "Tell people that I don't exist and I'll have you 
>barbequed!"? 
 
Whether *I* can is unimportant.  Whether God can *is* important. 
 
 
>> God made you in His image to be like Him.  Being like God makes 
>> you (in a sense) immortal.
 
>Then why doesn't let us just fade away??
 
You imply that God has infinite power.  I'm not so sure that He
has the power to uncreate things He created to exist forever.
(Can God make a rock so big He can't move it?)
 
 
>If God is so powerfull why does it need to put us through thus 
>stupid charade called Material Life??
 
Portal: Shall I destroy these Feringi(sp?)?
Riker(sp?): Then they would never learn.
 
 
>> What is this:  "You must not jump off cliffs or you will be 
>> hurt."  
 
>What is this:  "You must not have sex unless you are married"
 
A warning.
 
>What is this:  "You must not have sex with motss [members of
>the same sex]"
 
A warning.
 
>What is this:  "Questioning my motives will be fatal"
 
A warning.  (I'm not sure God said precisely this.  "Slandering" 
instead of "questioning" would be more accurate.) 
 
 
>What about those who *choose* to do right but refuse to believe in 
>crackpot stories about all-powerful sadists? 
 
Do you ask whether God approves doing right?  (He does.)
Or do you ask whether God approves unbelief?  (He doesn't.)
Or maybe this is just an insult.  (Flames are not answered.)
 
 
>>>He does need to warn 
>>>those who will hurt themselves.  For example, He warns that 
>>>promiscuity hurts.  You have found out why. 
 
>Ah! That's mulitple partners! Explain how homosexuality or how two
>lovers don't need to get married to stay together hurts.
 
I'm sorry, I can't explain to you why homosexuality hurts.  Not 
in a way you would understand.  Maybe someone wiser than I could. 
For myself, when I was an adolescent, I could have decided to be 
homosexual.  I didn't because I listened to God's warning against 
it.  I am glad I did.  Not only because it would have harmed me, 
but because it would have separated me from God.  (Why would it 
have separated?  Because He said so.) 
 
When two (motos, at least) lovers stay together for a lifetime, 
intentionally, that *is* marriage.  What's wrong with that is 
they haven't acknowledged that intent to the state or society. 
 
You're going to ask about motss marriage.  It is my opinion that 
God did not define marriage so as to include this option.  Others 
may.  So it depends on whose definition of "marriage" you accept 
whether you call that marriage.  You can expect me to use God's 
definition when I use that word.  I expect others will not.  
That's up to them. 
 
 
>Justify victimless sin as being a sin. I'm not talking about 
>physically destructive victimless sin like drug taking but crap 
>like blasphemy or homosexual marriage. 
 
The victim of blasphemy is God.  The victims of homosexual 
marriage are the partners. 
 
Find a better example of victimless sin and I'll "justify" it.
 
DARIST
 
(BTW, this and other articles from other groups were appended to 
another of your articles, creating a huge article on the net. 
Perhaps you know this and are dealing with the problem.) 
 
I've taken a little time out to answer this article.  I'm very 
busy and fully intend to answer other questions to me when I can. 

darist@bluemoon.rn.com