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Originally Posted by Praxeas
You know I was going to post something else about how our society sometimes blames the victim, but decided to just ask....did you mean it? Did you really mean this how you worded it?
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I sure did. I've seen it up close, and, unfortunately, I've been in the middle of it.
I spent a
stupid amount of money on my wife's engagement ring. I wanted her to know that my offer was serious. I paid cash - not credit. Fast forward 6 or 7 years later. We've moved to a new town, and are attending a smallish church. In response to observing this ring, one of the ladies began trading her ring in on a slightly larger diamond each year. Another lady went nutso into debt to acquire a rock
bigger than my wife's. It didn't seem right to her that a younger woman have a bigger diamond. She started to act very strangely. Her husband was the treasurer. There was a scandal regarding 'accounting irregularities' shortly after we had moved away.
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THEY cause others to stumble? I'd suggest if that was the case those others didn't have their mind on Jesus to begin with, but were looking at everyone else with a critical spirit to begin with...to stumble over someone wearing a wedding ring?
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If I hadn't bought that ring, if I hadn't moved to that town and that church, those people wouldn't have engaged in such wasteful and destructive activities. I suppose you could take the tack that all we did was bring a latent problem to the surface, but I don't enjoy being used in this capacity.
Alright Prax, I answered your questions. How about you answer mine from the original post?
There's a couple of other unanswered questions from earlier, too, Brother Epley and somebody else.
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