What you have written, about the knowledge of good and evil is exactly what I was taught in Sunday and Hebrew school as well.
Hey, I'm beginning to suspect that you may be a born-again Jew! (Sorry. Call it as I see it. :)
Anyway, it is the knowledge, the ability to know what is good and to make a choice whether or not to act upon it is what always made sense to be. Thus, the Catholic concept of infants being born "in sin" (from the fact that they were conceived through sex.....how else was it supposed to happen?) repulsed me. It is clear that infants make no conscious choices, therefore cannot be sinners. To tell parents who have lost an infant that its soul went to hell because it died unbaptized and "in sin" is one of those Church behaviors that seem criminal in their lack of compassion to me. Just my $.02
from the fact that they were conceived through sex.....how else was it supposed to happen?
According to Christians... through parthenogensis. Haven't you read the Bible :)
No wonder so many of them are opposed to reproductive technologies. "But everyone will want one!"
Hmmm. Is a child conceived through in vitro fertilization born in sin? Has someone written the obvious SF story? (Does Ethan of Athos put this doctrine forth? I forget.)
from the fact that they were conceived through sex.....how else was it supposed to happen?
According to Christians... through parthenogensis. Haven't you read the Bible :)
*snerk!!*
No wonder so many of them are opposed to reproductive technologies. "But everyone will want one!"
see above comment :) Sadly, that actually makes some sense, given their absurd parameters.......
Hmmm. Is a child conceived through in vitro fertilization born in sin? Has someone written the obvious SF story?
My guess on this is that the pleasure the man felt from the ejaculation into the cup made it a sin. 'sigh' Perhaps if the sperm is removed while the donor is unconscious. Or when he's been declared legally dead. Would that be a sin? Coming after death....hmmmm........
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Hey, I'm beginning to suspect that you may be a born-again Jew! (Sorry. Call it as I see it. :)
Anyway, it is the knowledge, the ability to know what is good and to make a choice whether or not to act upon it is what always made sense to be. Thus, the Catholic concept of infants being born "in sin" (from the fact that they were conceived through sex.....how else was it supposed to happen?) repulsed me. It is clear that infants make no conscious choices, therefore cannot be sinners. To tell parents who have lost an infant that its soul went to hell because it died unbaptized and "in sin" is one of those Church behaviors that seem criminal in their lack of compassion to me. Just my $.02
Hey, wasn't going to Catholic school fun?
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According to Christians... through parthenogensis. Haven't you read the Bible :)
No wonder so many of them are opposed to reproductive technologies. "But everyone will want one!"
Hmmm. Is a child conceived through in vitro fertilization born in sin? Has someone written the obvious SF story? (Does Ethan of Athos put this doctrine forth? I forget.)
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According to Christians... through parthenogensis. Haven't you read the Bible :)
*snerk!!*
No wonder so many of them are opposed to reproductive technologies. "But everyone will want one!"
see above comment :) Sadly, that actually makes some sense, given their absurd parameters.......
Hmmm. Is a child conceived through in vitro fertilization born in sin? Has someone written the obvious SF story?
My guess on this is that the pleasure the man felt from the ejaculation into the cup made it a sin. 'sigh' Perhaps if the sperm is removed while the donor is unconscious. Or when he's been declared legally dead. Would that be a sin? Coming after death....hmmmm........