Posted by GOLF [GOLF] on November 16, 1999 at 12:44:18 {pRztWiaeukxcw/M2TiI6XmY6g1Cg2g}:
In Reply to: Fear of pagans? posted by PraeTell on November 13, 1999 at 22:36:09:
Paul at Romans 14:14 says, "I know and am pursuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is defiled in itself;only where a man CONSIDERS something to be defiled,TO HIM IT IS DEFILED."
Jesus at Matt.5:28 says, "But I say to YOU that everyone that keeps looking at a women so as to have a PASSION her HAS ALREADY committed adultery with her in his HEART."
Solomon at Proverbs 5:20 says, " So why should you my son be in an ecstasy with a strange women or embrace the bosom of a foreign women? Verse 18 says,"let your water source prove to be blessed, and rejoice with the 'wife' of your youth, a loveable hind and a charming mountain goat. Let her own 'breasts' intoxicate you at all times."
Excuse me for getting off the subject, I got carried away.
Paul really answered the question for us at the opening scripture. That entire chapter 14 is worth reading.
Jehovah doesn't expect perfection from us, only 'fellow' humans do. The advice I follow is what Paul said at 1Cor.4"6, "...learn the rule; Do not go beyond the things that are written."
Keep the faith,
DK