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| Topic Started: Friday, 30. March 2012, 19:18 (279 Views) | |
| Rose of York | Tuesday, 3. April 2012, 20:30 Post #16 |
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For every right there is a corresponding obligation. For every obligation there is a corresponding right. In my non legal mind, as I am obliged to love my neighbour, she is entitled to receive it, and I do not equate loving with liking. It could be something simple, such as stopping to offer assistance when I see a person I do not like one bit, lying by the side of the road with a broken leg. |
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| Anne-Marie | Tuesday, 3. April 2012, 21:14 Post #17 |
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That you, as a Christian, have a duty in no wise implies that 'she' has a right. And as OSB is so fond of pointing out, 'Where does the Bible say it?'
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| OsullivanB | Tuesday, 3. April 2012, 21:27 Post #18 |
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Quite. We have a great facility for reading into Christianity what in fact is derived from other sources - and I am not raising the seductive spectres of Tradition and Authority here. If my neighbour knows I am a Christian, he has a reasonable expectation that I will help him when needed. He has no right to such help, though in most situations I would have a duty as a Christian to provide it. |
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| Rose of York | Tuesday, 3. April 2012, 22:55 Post #19 |
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We must agree to differ. I am unable to support my position by quoting from the Bible, but some things are in the moral law, and that existed before any of the Bible was written. |
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| OsullivanB | Tuesday, 3. April 2012, 23:09 Post #20 |
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That really is precisely the point. The moral law addresses us about what we each must and must not do, not what we can demand of another. |
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| Rose of York | Tuesday, 3. April 2012, 23:45 Post #21 |
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I never said we can demand of another, but if I were lying by the side of a road, I think I have a moral right to be helped by any person able and willing to do that. The moral of this conversation is, don't argue with a barrister. Do Christians have a moral right to have places of worship in predominantly muslim countries? Do muslims have a moral right to have mosques in predominantly Christian countries?
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| Anne-Marie | Wednesday, 4. April 2012, 13:08 Post #22 |
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YES and NO respectively. The moral of which is 'Don't argue with the righteous!'
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