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To: aMorePerfectUnion
"Whatever happens, surely they shouldn’t do anything redemptive."

I'm simply puzzled. Maybe you can help me out. Who is "they" in this sentence? And what is "something redemptive"?

7 posted on 08/08/2015 2:04:40 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice. "You must be" said the Cat,"or you wouldn't have come here.")
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To: Mrs. Don-o

“I’m simply puzzled.”

I find it hard to believe you are ever puzzled Mrs. Don-o!


8 posted on 08/08/2015 2:40:40 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion ( "Forward lies the crown, and onward is the goal.")
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To: Mrs. Don-o

I’m puzzled, too. If Matthew 19 means what it appears to say, then divorced and remarried individuals are continuously committing adultery. So the adulterers are probably the ones who need to do something redemptive, I’m guessing. The adulterers would be the “they.”

Our Redeemer can redeem them, but not while they continue in adultery, surely? Surely they would need to cease their sin and repent. That must be what is meant by “something redemptive.”

It’s not really clear from the post, but surely that is what was meant.


9 posted on 08/08/2015 2:58:31 PM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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