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New International Version (©1984)





http://bible.cc/leviticus/20-10.htm



If a man commits adultery with another man's wife--with the wife of his neighbor--both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.



Luke 16:18

18 Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.



…there are many verses in the Bible on adultery, probably the most well known one is found in the Ten Commandments, where it says: "You shall not commit adultery.

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Infidelity StatisticsIt's tough to get a handle on how many of us are having affairs, given the inherent secrecy.



-22 percent of married men have strayed at least once during their married lives.

-14 percent of married women have had affairs at least once during their married lives.

-Younger people are more likely candidates; in fact, younger women are as likely as younger men to be unfaithful.

-70 percent of married women and 54 percent of married men did not know of their spouses' extramarital activity.

-5 percent of married men and 3 percent of married women reported having sex with someone other than their spouse in the 1997.

-22 percent of men and 14 percent of women admitted to having sexual relations outside their marriage sometime in their past.

-90 percent of Americans believe adultery is morally wrong.

-50 percent of Americans say President Clinton's adultery makes his moral standard "about the same as the average married man", according to a Time-CNN poll.

-61 percent of Americans thought adultery should not be a crime in the United states; 35 percent thought it should; 4 percent had no opinion.

-17 percent of divorces in the United States are caused by infidelity.

Source: Associated Press



-One in 10 respondents said they are addicted to sex and the Internet, according to an online survey of 38,000 Internet users. MSNBC.com and Dr. Alvin Cooper

-Results show that internet users devote three hours each week to online sexual exploits. Twenty-five percent have felt that they lost control of their Internet sexual exploits at least once or that the activity caused problems in their lives. MSNBC.com and Dr. Alvin Cooper

-Up to 37% of men and 22% of women admit to having affairs. Researchers think the vast majority of the millions of people who visit chat rooms, have multiple "special friends”. Dr. Bob Lanier, askbob.com

-Only 46% of men believe that online affairs are adultery. DivorceMag

-80% think it's Ok to talk with a stranger identified as the opposite sex. 75% thinks it's ok to visit an adult site.

-About 60 percent of men and 40 percent of women will have an affair at some point in some marriage "Monogamy Myth", Therapist Peggy Vaugn

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John

...it appeares no other thing
to mee, then a foule and pestilent congregation of vapours.
What a piece of worke is a man!

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Thou shalt kill anyone who works on Sunday. (Exodus 35:2)

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Thou shalt kill anyone who works on Sunday. (Exodus 35:2)

Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you an holy day, a sabbath of rest to the LORD: whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death.

I know this one seems kind of foul. After all in today’s trying times where you have to work three minimum wage jobs to keep above the poverty line, at least half the world’s population is guilty of this one. And we are just as guilty of sin, because this verse in the bible explicitly states that anyone who works on the Sabbath must be put to death. I guess it’s time to bring Sharia law to Christianity, so we can cleanse the world of these wicked people who DARE to insult God like this!

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Thou shalt not wear clothes of mixed fibers.—Leviticus 19:19)

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Originally posted by JKennedy:
Such minds we have here The point was and is that people with many failings themselves, who adhere to the bible, who claim to go by that book often pick and choose from it; and usually to criticize another person or group.

Using promiscuity and adultery seemed like sure attention getters...got yours didn't it .

And again, the bible remains a tremendous source or wisdom, help and comfort to many people. Including hypocrites.

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Originally posted by JKennedy:
Such minds we have here The point was and is that people with many failings themselves, who adhere to the bible, who claim to go by that book often pick and choose from it; and usually to criticize another person or group.

Using promiscuity and adultery seemed like sure attention getters...got yours didn't it .
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And again, the bible remains a trem]endous source or wisdom, help and comfort to many people. Including hypocrites.

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One thing.......adults can't maintain abstinence in having affairs or going to prostitutes.......and they are supposedly more able to handle their hormones and feelings and self control because they have "grown" up.....

how can we expect children who have newly surging hormones without the adult mind and who are still confused as to whether or not they are adults or children (and they really are both at the same time ) to do what many adults with supposedly adults minds can't do......

In fundamentalist America i am sure there are tons of teenage pregnancy like Sarah Palin's daughter and yet they are the ones advocating abstinence....if they really were to reflect and look at this would they not try to find another avenue of helping our kids? But this is what happens when people are so closed minded.....

But to compromise and satisfy everyone we need a program that includes abstinence as one of the options in addition to condoms. Because really these children are too young to be having sex. They are not capable of understanding what it is all about. they are still part child and part adult. If they must have sex then protective sex must be taught but abstinence must be included as an option but more as an emotional protection.

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Originally posted by Koka:
Linda, I love your last post. It's so filled with the truth. I would NEVER have imposed other peoples values upon my children, never, never, never. I always advised them to think and act for themselves, using their own values and knowledge to arrive at their decisions. I think faith (NOT religion) is such a very personal thing, perhaps the most personal of all our dealings. It should be practiced in just that way, as a personal faith, and NOT imposed upon others. We don't need to read volumes to arrive at our faith, we merely have to seek and it will come to us.

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Originally posted by Koka:
Thank you Linda, I figured we saw it in much the same way. BTW, I don't take the Bible and Ancient Israel for my guidelines - I go straight to the Master.

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Which is NOT to say that "anything goes"! There are always the feelings of other people to consider, and using or abusing others--children especially--is always wrong. But then I don't need to tell you that!