On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:03:20 -0800, Tim Attwood wrote:

>> But as I wrote to Nemesis, surely God could've/would've forseen that
>> need and written them clearly enough that such a clarification wouldn't
>> be necessary, no?
> 
> They were trying to trick Jesus into saying that one of the deadly sins
> was worse than the others, and therefore by reasoning that other sins
> aren't that bad, since every sin would have a sin that is "less bad".
> This is a variation on Zeno's arrow paradox.

Well, sure, and that's one of the issues I have with religion - it 
doesn't often stand up to scrutiny like that.

Jim

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