Re: Support
Submitted by World Perfect on 2002-07-9 08:53:02, Tuesday
In reply to Support submitted by BillBo on 2002-07-8 18:26:51, Monday
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Thanks to you both for your replay. There is no doubt that the heart is deceitful and many BLs act in a selfish and manipulative way (particularly when they are frustrated). Cheating spouses also harm their husbands, at least emotionally, since they are betraying them. So I would not call this true love because, according to Paulus: "love does no harm to its neighbor". But let's think about a BL who, looking back, realizes that he had a relationship with a boy in which he was not selfish and manipulative at all, and the boy got a lot out of it. My question is: can God condemn this? If I read what Paulus says in the passage, I quoted, I don't think so. This does not mean that we can discard the specific commandments about sexual behaviour. This means that we don't have to take all commandments literally in all circumstances, if true love is involved. In my opinion this is clearly stated by Paulus, for if it were not so, he wouldn't have said it. WP |
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