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- From: phoenix@cwis.unomaha.edu (Shannon Chris Saltzman)
- Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian
- Subject: Re: Marriage? Just do it!
- Message-ID: <Dec.22.03.31.32.1992.13200@geneva.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 08:31:32 GMT
- Sender: hedrick@geneva.rutgers.edu
- Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
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- Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu
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- You made a valid point in that there is no evidence to support
- that living together will in any way improve the quality of a
- marriage(thats not exactly what you said).
- I feel you are TRULY mistaken however if you believe that God's plan
- is for you to marry the first person who shows up on your doorstep.
- I feel you are even further mistaken if you believe that a Godly marriage
- can be set up in one day. I do not condone pre-marital sex . I do not
- believe however that a marriage need be set up in 24hrs to avoid this.
- (Well for some it might(but i doubt it))
- Also generalizing that all people who live together are just "testing
- each other out" is a dangerous assumption. Many people live together
- for a variety of good(if unBilical) reasons.
- I do not believe God designed marriage to be a "Just do it" thing.
- Paul warned that marriage was filled with downfalls and SUGGESTED we
- go without it. Certainly if God had the "Just do it" attitude, Paul would
- have been WAY out of line saying that.(NOTE:Paul was not condoning live in
- mate or situations)
- Nobody can tell anyone what True Love is,because it is a matter of opinion,
- but in my definition,True Love is not that nervous(somewhat glorious,somewhat
- nauseating) feeling you get when you are around someone(I believe this goes
- with it at first).True Love is one built under the shelter of our loving
- God,and thus one that endures even after the sweaty palms and stuttering
- has gone. Nobody can do that in a day.
- How many of us even knew ourselves in a day?
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- MR Shannon Saltzman
- "Is doggie heaven kitty hell?" Stephanie phoenix(age 6)
- "How does teflon stick to a skillet when nothing sticks to teflon?"
- The words of Mike Warnke.
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