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To: mark silvers who wrote (1277)	10/3/1998 10:52:00 AM
From: IN_GOD_I_TRUST	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1542

Mark, And as we discussed before, men screw things up all by himself. God gave us free will to do right and wrong. If we choose wrong, slavery or bigomy, he does not come down to earth each and every time to stop it. Sometimes he puts some humane regualtions around it, instead of stopping it. In this way, we learn from our mistakes, and we have to live with the results of our screw ups. If you have children you know you can't tell them, or control what to do 100% of the time. If you do, your going to have problems because your kids want some slack. Let's take a very complicated teenage problem, sex. Do I want my daughters to have sex? Obviously NO! I could explain right and wrong to them, according to the bible. But ultimately they will do what they want to do. Sometimes if you do a good job of explaining what's right and wrong, they take your advice. But sometimes in the pressure of situations, they go against your advice anyway. Because almost every teenager thinks they are smarter than their parents, right? So in this situation, do you tell them about birth control or do you just let them make their choice without any knowledge of birth control? If they make the wrong choice about sex, and they have no birth control, they can get pregnant. But if you regulate the rules around sex by explaining birth control, a least you can avoid pregnancy. Do you see what I am saying? I don't want my daughter to have sex. But at the same time I can't stop her or be with 100% of the time to stop her. So I put regulations around the act, even though I don't wan't her to partake in the act. So by my putting regulations around sex am I condoning it.....God forbid! Hope this helps..... Steve