I just love how all of you think you know me...and you have no idea
But Blessings, anyway...
Rhoni
It's not hard for us to know you Rhoni, your words tell us everything about you.
YOU are the one that doesn't know yourself, unfortunately.
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That verse has been misused by many in the charismatic circles to have "Pure" adultery, fornication and etc. I would stay away from that verse to justify what you are wanting to do, whatever that might be!
Just because we question the looks of a situation like you are describing does not mean that we all have dirty minds, maybe Scotty excluded. We just have been around the block and know that if it looks like a skunk, walks like a skunk, smells like a skunk, it's probably a skunk!
Just ask Ron! He knows this lesson VERY well
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Originally Posted by Rhoni
I think that any two people, same or opposite sex, who want to co-habitate in a non-sexual relationship should do so, without telling, and being fully aware that should anything be said...then she will pay the higher price; just like fraternization in a place of employment, or like in the case of fornication or adultery. Men are blameless under society and UC-Biblical standards. I am not sure why God even bothered to create women unless he understood the need for men to have a punching bag to blame all their shortcomings on.
This is absolutely the saddest statement I've ever heard you make, Rhoni. I cannnot believe that you honestly think that God created women for men to have a punching bag to blame all their shortcomings on. Do you understand what that says about your view of GOD? Sad, just sad.
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This is absolutely the saddest statement I've ever heard you make, Rhoni. I cannnot believe that you honestly think that God created women for men to have a punching bag to blame all their shortcomings on. Do you understand what that says about your view of GOD? Sad, just sad.
I know! First of all, God's plan is definitely the best one ever!!!! And secondly, Jeff doesn't use me as his punching bag. Literally or figuratively.
It makes me sad to think that Rhoni really feels that way about men. They are God's creation just like women, and have a wonderful, divine purpose. I can't imagine how empty our home would be without my husband and the kids' father. How lacking in structure and masculinity and strong-armed hugs and rough play outside and deep bellows when the kids get out of line and sweet, over-the-top gifts when he's done something wrong and repairing bicycles and the person I want to pray for me when I'm sick and....I could go on and on.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
Let's put this in perspective. Adam blamed Eve for his own sin. When men are sinful, they blame women for their issues. When men are good, they take responsibility for themselves. So, there is some truth to what Rhoni was saying and should perhaps be taken more as a lament than an actual statement meant for meaning.
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When I was young and clever, I wanted to change the world. Now that I am older and wiser, I strive to change myself. ~
Let's put this in perspective. Adam blamed Eve for his own sin. When men are sinful, they blame women for their issues. When men are good, they take responsibility for themselves. So, there is some truth to what Rhoni was saying and should perhaps be taken more as a lament than an actual statement meant for meaning.
So I'm going to take your post to mean that sinful men blame women for their issues--but Christian men don't, or shouldn't.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
First of all, God's plan is definitely the best one ever!!!! And secondly, Jeff doesn't use me as his punching bag. Literally or figuratively. 
Hybrid Mode
