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   eligion.christian.adventist   
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   From: frank_trebor@hotmail.com   
      
   > > "Rafael Leyre"  wrote   
   > > I think that the following cosntitute "essential morality",   
   > > 1. consideration for suffering people anywhere on earth;   
   > > 2. desire for equal and unbiased justice for each and every person;   
   > > 3. aversion of physical and public punishment,   
   > > 4. aversion of cruelty as a public spectacle;   
   > > 5. striving to open minded, investigative, forthcoming world   
   citizenship;   
   > > 6. defence of everyone's freedom to create, change and demonstrate   
   opinions;   
   > > 7. health care without social, sexual, racial or any other   
   discrimination.   
   > >   
   > "deluxe"  wrote   
   > It's so undefined as to make the whole discussion pointless.   
      
   I agree, "deluxe", but you did not offer an alternative.....   
      
   Exodus 20:1 And God spake all these words, saying, 2 I am the LORD thy God,   
   which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of   
   bondage. 3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 4 Thou shalt not make   
   unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven   
   above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the   
   earth. 5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the   
   LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the   
   children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; 6 And   
   showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.   
   7 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD   
   will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. 8 Remember the   
   sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy   
   work: 10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou   
   shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant,   
   nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy   
   gates: 11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all   
   that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the   
   sabbath day, and hallowed it. 12 Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy   
   days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. 13 Thou   
   shalt not kill. 14 Thou shalt not commit adultery. 15 Thou shalt not steal.   
   16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. 17 Thou shalt not   
   covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor   
   his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing   
   that is thy neighbor's.   
      
   And to summarize this long list, refer to:.......   
   Deuteronomy 6:5 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart,   
   and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.   
   Leviticus 19:18 Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the   
   children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself: I am   
   the LORD.   
      
   Jesus Himself quoted these two when asked which was the greatest   
   commandment,   
   Matthew 22:37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all   
   thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38 This is the   
   first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt   
   love thy neighbour as thyself. 40 On these two commandments hang all the law   
   and the prophets.   
      
   I rest my case.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)