12.06.2003 ~ 11:54 pm
hello, i�m revising RS and reading my amazing essays. i was clearly high when i wrote them cos well, see for yourself. before we begin, though, i�d like you to know that these are not necessarily my views, because i am just about as liberal as christians get.
in a letter to the pope (�Dear Pope John Paul II,�Ei might as well have written �yo johnny�E i wrote:
Another argument against the ordination of women is that the priest represents Christ, who was a man. The Church is the Bride of Christ, therefore Christ is the bridegroom and a man. However, the Church (the bride) is not composed purely of women, so why should the priest or the bridegroom necessarily be a man?
�nice point,�Esaid my RS teacher.
In the process of IVF, humans are �creating life�Ein practically the same way as life is created by sexual intercourse - by the fertilisation of eggs by sperm - with the exception of IVF being outside of the body. Only God can be truly �creating life�Eas he created the system of sperm fertilising eggs. Humans cannot �create life�Eper se as they do not have the ability to create a living cell out of nothing.
In another essay, i said:
If couples want children, they should not rely on technology, but have faith in God and pray for a child, like Sarah, the wife of Abraham, who had her son Isaac at the age of 90 after God promised her and her husband a child.
i remember going to sunday school in YMCA and this black girl who was sitting next to me started reading the new testament, which begins with Abraham being the father of Isaac, being the father of Jacob, who was the father of Joseph, all the way to King David, then Jesus. i digress, but that was where my knowledge of Sarah being 90 when she gave birth to Isaac stemmed from. i like my Bible.
Paul is great:
Now to the unmarried and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay unmarried, as I am. But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion. (1 Corinthians 7)
that�s from the belief that marriage is a remedy against sin, and to avoid fornication; that such persons as have not the gift of continency might marry.
hehe. its like the book of common prayer is saying that people who cannot control their bladder and bowels should get married.
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