This story is very bizarre, but one thing in particular jumped out at me.
The dead man had told his wife he was leaving her for another woman. A very short time later, he died in a garden shed inferno (my word, is that a barmy thing to write). His wife was bringing the washing in at the time. She claims he has always had suicidal tendencies.
The mistress has disputed this, but it was her grounds for doing so which intrigued me. She said that he was a Christian, and therefore believed harming himself in this manner was wrong, so therefore, it could not have been suicide.
I hope you're seeing the great big glaring inconsistency there. His mistress, about whom his Christian conscience seemed unperturbed, is insisting that said Christian conscience was very much more defined in the area of his personal well-being.
uh-huh.
10/09/2007
A total lack of self-awareness...
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Interesting...
Religious men often put sexual morality on a different level to other ethical issues.
A lot of the great men of history have combined religious devotion and scrupulousness on doctrine and practice with keeping a mistress alongside their wife.
God Bless
Matthew
Have they?
Didn't read that as the mistress said that he was a christian so wouldn't have done that, think a neighbour said that?
Strange how people pick bits out of the bible that they think are important or make someone a christian, and disregard the rest!
Not that the bible says anything specific about suicide ..
Yes ... but what truly chills my blood is the behaviour of the wife. Calmly dealing with her laundry while her husband dies horribly.
Really, you couldn't make this up if you tried.
*shudders*
Philippa
bbhg, I believe you are correct, yes. But you're also right that the pick and choose point still stands.
Libbie, have you read 'The Heart of the matter' by Graham Greene?
The guy in that commits adultery and wont confess it to his wife.
Being a Catholic he tries to confess it to the priest so that he can take mass, as his wife expects him to, but the priest refuses to give him absolution until he stops seeing his lover.
The guy ends up taking mass and concludes that he is damned. So he kills himself in the end.
Oh, have I just given away the whole plot?
lol, Matthew, no, I haven't read it, and now I don't need to! :-D
Very weird. By the way, I haven't introduced myself yet, but I'm a fan of your blog!
I read your header. what does, 'reluctant 5-pointer mean?'
This explains that one, melissa.
"but the priest refuses to give him absolution until he stops seeing his lover."
Quite rightly so...until he stops seeing his lover he is living in sin and not repentance. Jesus would not forgive him under those circumstances, either :¬(
It is such a human thing to put sin into different levels.
For example a lie in many peoples lives is acceptable until it affects them personally then its a Sin!
To hate = murder but it is difficult to sometimes get oyr heads around it and truly understand it.
( did not realise they mentioned he was a Christian...)
oh-uh indeed.
clare
I think it is only the view of the neighbour that he was a christian .. maybe he wasn't
I think the point is even stronger there, bbhg. In the neighbours mind, one could be a Christian and still be quite ok with adultery.
Autumnrose,
I have just been having a party and had a couple of beers, so I wont get into a theology debate right now.
However, I would say that there is a difference between being forgiven and being justified.
One who has trusted in Christ for eternal life is freed from the eternal consequences of sin. She posesses evelasting life.
However, she may not be forgiven for particular sins. Refusal to repent of sin is an obstacle to fellowship with God and would incur temporal punishment and possible loss of rewards in heaven.
God Bless
Matthew
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