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Re: Is it Ethical?
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Originally Posted by *AQuietPlace*
Nazis and slave-owners were after the Old Testament.
And it's a serious question. No easy answer. If you were hiding a young teenage slave girl, you knew the owner knocking on your door was going to brutalize her, severely beat her and worse... could you with good integrity hand her over to him?
Nazis banging on your door in the middle of the night..... "Are there Jews hiding here?" You know you'd be delivering them up to be murdered?
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For sure life can bring us some serious difficult situations. Doing right isn't always easy.
I think we have to set the foundation is it ok for a Christian to lie? That has to be determined first.
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Today pull up the little weeds,
The sinful thoughts subdue,
Or they will take the reins themselves
And someday master you. --Anon.
The most deadly sins do not leap upon us, they creep up on us.
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