Posted by rayww on March 1, 2005, at 10:07:16
In reply to Re: Gay Marriage » rayww, posted by snoozin on March 1, 2005, at 8:10:07
Does religion conflict with politics? The point I was trying to make was that the Bible can be viewed as a business plan for life.
>>I was speaking as an attorney, who sees marriage as a legal contract for legal purposes only.
<<The main problem with making something legal is that it then must be presented in the classroom and taught to all children.
Those who practise functional marriage (not the abusers of the contract) may not want our children taught anti religious themes in the schools. Evolution is anti-religious because it denies the existance of a God. Gay marriage is anti-religious because it denies the contracts of God. The Bible is as legal a contract as ever there has been on earth. We bind ourselves to its constitution and principles by baptism, and renew the contract each Sunday through the ordinance of sacrament. It is a binding contract because God has to keep his part of the agreement if we keep ours. God cannot lie, nor can he deceive.
I suggest we view the Bible as a legal document complete with constitution, bylaws, business plan, with clearly outlined procedures, outcomes, and measures, a most clever strategic plan for not only this life, but eternity.
How can legal stand alone? Surely there is something to measure legal by. Can we measure legal against the US Constitution? And what principles guided its creation? The ones found in the Bible. In whom do you trust if you can't trust God? Do you trust legal? Man? Man's ability to reason and create law?
I submit that we can trust God and the Bible whether or not we label it religious or political.
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