TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A46   
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   REPLY: 195.fidonet-bible@1:2320/33 265d4eb3   
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   Thank you, sir, for your wisdom.   
      
    DS>   Admittedly, it's tempting to "do the wrong thing"...but in the long   
    DS> run, it's bad for you.   
      
   This is a lesson that He has taught me over, and over again...   
      
    DS>   The context for it was what King David did...committing adultery with   
    DS> Bathsheba, getting her pregnant. So, he had her husband, Uriah, sent off   
    DS> to the hottest part of the battle line, where he'd be killed. David   
    DS> thought that "he had gotten away with it", but God saw it all...and sent   
    DS> the prophet Nathan to "let the cat out of the bag". He told David a story   
    DS> about a pitiless rich man. When David said angrily "That man deserves to   
    DS> die!!", Nathan thundered "YOU ARE THAT MAN!!".   
    DS>    
    DS>   David did repent and confess his sin, but he lost the child that he   
    DS> got out of wedlock, and his family and life were destroyed...not to   
    DS> mention that his kingdom was taken away from him. What a price to pay   
    DS> to enjoy "the pleasures of sin for a season".   
      
   Again, I feel the need to read The Good Book again. Your paraphrase really   
   drills directly to the point of that lesson...   
      
   I can only hope that He continues to forgive me.   
      
    DS>   Admittedly, we don't like to hear about stuff like this, as it hurts   
    DS> our pride. But, pride was the first sin in the universe...   
      
   Aye, you're quite right! And why I chose to excise my soul, rather than marry   
   a too-proud woman! And yet, that wound has never healed...   
      
    DS> Our pride won't do any of us a bit of good in Hell...   
    DS> and if we had gotten what we deserved, we would've been stamped out of   
    DS> existence long ago.   
      
   Wars, and rumours of war. Rampant disease. Mountains exploding with sulfur. Do   
   you not think that this is the End of Days, as well? Am I just paranoid?   
      
   May He provide both of us with His Word!   
      
   McDoob   
   SysOp, PiBBS   
   pibbs.sytes.net   
      
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