(Ron) Definition of Inerrancy

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At 02:11 AM 9/1/98 -0400, you or Ron wrote:


>RON

>  It is not a sin to be tempted. As the NT indicates somewhere, "Jesus 

>was tempted in all ways as we are." That's why I have no trouble with 

>the concept of Jesus being TEMPTED sexually or otherwise. The fact is He 

>did not give in to the temptation or entertain the thought. 

>  "Lust" according to my lexicon is an "evil and inordinate desire to 

>possess someone or something. A natural appetite in its depraved state. 

>A hostile motion (spiritually or physically) toward an object for 

>seizing or repelling. 

>  For example, it is not lust if one were to find someone of the 

>opposite sex attractive sexually. After all God did cause us to 

>reproduce in this way. It becomes lust when you direct it toward someone 

>inappropriate, such as another person's spouse, and entertain the 

>notion, fantasizing about it for instance. I don't think you can lust, 

>at least in the Biblical sense, for your own spouse. That notion is the 

>product of the influence of pagan greek dualistic (ant-material) thought 

>on Christianity. It's not scriptural. 



MUNDINGER
I am not a Biblical scholar and mostly an observer here but I have some 
questions that may or may not be on topic.

Was Jesus married?  I don't recall anything that would rule out that
possibility.  When he went to a wedding, he acted like he was in charge
and the bride and groom are not identified.  He was called a rabbi and
I have heard that to be a rabbi one had to be married with children.

Would his children and their descendents be special?  Could we identify
them with dna tests?  Was he a clone or did the Holy Ghost provide
some genetic material that might be unique?  Why is "God the Father" a
father if the Holy Ghost did the deed? Surrogate fatherhood?

If Jesus was fully human as determined at one of the early church 
councils, he would have a normal set of glands and a healthy sex drive.
Why were so many people outraged at the movie "The Last Temptation of
Christ?" 

Just wondering.

Larry Mundinger


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