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- From: nuge@newport.med.ge.com (James A. Nugent)
- Subject: Re: Bible says abortion is murder? WHERE?
- In-Reply-To: lefty@apple.com's message of 28 Jul 92 00:31:04 GMT
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- Date: 28 Jul 92 03:14:48 GMT
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- In article <lefty-270792172821@lefty.apple.com> lefty@apple.com
- (Lefty) writes:
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- > In article <NUGE.92Jul24114732@newport.med.ge.com>, nuge@newport.med.ge.com
- > (James A. Nugent) wrote:
- > >
- > > Yup. Early Church teaching, the Didache Apostolicae (Teachings of
- > > the Apostles, ~ 100 AD) says:
- > >
- > > "You shall not kill the fetus by abortion, or destroy the infant
- > > already born."
-
- > Forgive me for asking the obvious question, but why would one consider the
- > "Didache Apostolicae" to be divinely inspired?
-
- I never said it was. It represents early Church Teaching. The line
- right above, to which I was responding, was:
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- > My friend kept on saying, "The Church says... the Church says..."
-
- My reply was probably too terse, and should have been
-
- "Yes, the first record of that church teaching was in the Didache..."
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- Jim Nugent
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