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NASB | Matthew 18:6 but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a heavy millstone hung around his neck, and to be drowned in the depth of the sea. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Matthew 18:6 but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble and sin [by leading him away from My teaching], it would be better for him to have a heavy millstone [as large as one turned by a donkey] hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea. [Mark 9:42; Luke 17:2] |
Subject: should I avoid the appearance of evil? |
Bible Note: Stultis the Fool: Well I thank you for the response. Might I suggest that you fill out the User Update info. so we can better understand to whom we are communicating with. Also please don't judge my septic tank remark as you have only been on the forum a very few days, and fail to see the humor in it. Your insisting of me retracting my remark seems redundant as this note will be available for others to see a long time afterward. My remarks are given with the intensity that the very unBiblical, not even close to a neo-orthodox view, that was deserving of a septic tank. As to marriage being just a coupling of a man and a woman by body parts, that too has a bad smell. As Scripture is very clear in Old Testamnet times as the to the marriage ceremony and the proof that the bride was a virgin. Marriage was very sacred, then and now. Ther first miracle Jesus did was at a wedding, that is significant in the fact the Church is His bride. To say one is married strictly by the act of physical intercourse is taking Scripture out of context. If your assumption is true than would you say that a man or woman who has been unfaithful several times has married these partners as well as their married spouse? What about the many persons in ministry who have fallen into sexual sin, are they married to these people as well? See how what you think about sex outside of marriage is not a marriage? Paul does not say sex makes a marriage, it unites them in a unholy union, or act of union, that because one is a Christian we have in reality united Christ with us. This ought to never be. However, let me remind us that sin is sin. All sin is forgiven in the same way, is it not? Adultery is sin, and the act of adultery does not make a marriage. If one takes Theo-Minor's and your understanding that having sex, makes one married, than what would you call rape? Surely you would not call rape a marriage would you? I am not known for insults, I believe most who have known me for a couple of years on the Forum will say I am very quick to resolve hurt feelings, and I try to be kind and respectful. But when Scripture is twisted as this false teaching on having sex being a marriage, I will step in with both feet and call it what it is, was, and where such bad theology belongs...the septic tank. I never insult the person, but the theology I will take to task. |