Fund Raising (Was: Ken's "woman")

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>>>>> "KATHLEEN" == KATHLEEN DIMICK <kdimick@colsa.com> writes:

    KATHLEEN> Trying to re-send this message...  Brother Brown (to
    KATHLEEN> whom I mean no disrespect by this post) wrote:
    >> Well, do you see anything in the Bible *AGAINST* it?  I see
    >> nothing in the Bible *IN FAVOR OF* flush toilets, but then
    >> neither do I see anything against it.  So what should we do?
    >> Accept flush toilets as acceptable for our homes and churches,
    >> or reject them because the Bible does not explicitly approve of
    >> them?
    >> 
    >> The "law of the excluded middle" is a principle applied to the
    >> unknown to permit us to deal with it in an axiomatic fashion.
    >> I do not think we can postulate that the unstated is either
    >> always bad or always good, but rather WE NEED TO USE WISDOM TO
    >> DECIDE THESE CASES BASED ON BIBLICAL PRECEDENT.
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I have capitalized the last independent clause in the last sentence
you quoted from my post, because you seem to think you are refuting
what I said, yet you are agreeing with it.  :-/

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