From: sheila-mcginty@geotec.net
Date: Fri Jul 25 2003 - 11:32:55 EDT
Sondra,
I completely understood your sigh and sighed with you. We must leave room for
God's magical mysteries and enjoy them when we get the chance. Thank you for
reminding me.
Sheila
Quoting Sondra Brasile <sbrasile@hotmail.com>:
> Richard,
>
> It wasn't a question and I wasn't making a "statement". The sigh at the
> end
> was to denote nostalgia, I was waxing sentimental. Sorry, I couldn't
> contain
> it; I'm a mother 4 times over, I routinely marvel at them, the older
> they
> get the more wonderful they are.
>
> I'm not very good with my indicators I guess, I have to be more
> specific,
> but thanks for the response anyway ;).
>
> Sondra
>
>
> >From: <richard@biblewheel.com>
> >To: <asa@calvin.edu>
> >Subject: Re: Sin?
> >Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 10:20:23 -0700
> >
> >Hi Sondra, In post http://www.calvin.edu/archive/asa/200307/0547.html
> you
> >wrote
> >
> > >But what a representation of that verse "the two shall become one" in
> the
> > >forming of offspring, the mingling of two persons (in every sense) to
>
> >become
> > >a totally new, unique and seperate being. <sigh>
> >
> >I answered that in this post
> >http://www.calvin.edu/archive/asa/200307/0528.html. I quote:
> >
> > >Going back to the origin of sex in Genesis 2 we read:
> >
> > >Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall
> cleave
> >unto
> > >his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
> > >Procreation is prominent here only because of its *absence* - unless
> you
> > >want the "one flesh" to mean the child that results from the union,
> but
> >that
> > >can't be correct because the Bible says that the two become "one
> flesh"
> > >after sex, whether or not a child is produced (cf. 1 Cor 6.16).
> >
> >
> >Elaborating, we read I Cor 6.16, which states:
> >
> >What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for
>
> >two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
> >
> >It seems clear that Scripture presents heterosexual intercourse as
> >identitical to becoming one flesh, regardless of whether a child
> results or
> >not.
> >
> >But this doesn't mean that God didn't intend a beautiful and
> illustrative
> >double entendre, so characteristic of His excellent Word.
> >
> >Richard Amiel McGough.
> >Discover the sevenfold symmetric perfection of the Holy Bible at
> >http://www.BibleWheel.com
>
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Sheila McGinty Wilson
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