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Originally posted by LoveShack:
Hold accountable is the key to this post. If you are going to hold one kid accountable for sin, then why are we not holding all students accountable for sin?
Churches do the same thing, they hold one sin more punishable than the others but this is what Jesus said was wrong! What about kids who have view pornography in the last year at this school should they be punished as well? How about kids who lie? or gossip? or speed? As a parent the school does have a right to discipline its students. People make mistakes, kids make mistakes, yes this was a big one, but confess it and go on.
WOW the irony! Jesus ate and drank with sinners and if the board of this school had seen HIM doing this He would have been expelled also! Jesus came to help sinners never did He ever say He came to help the religious right!
Jesus did eat with the people who were considered by society to be 'big' sinners. But while he was doing this, he didn't condone their actions, and he didn't try to make them feel better about themselves and their lifestyles. He called them to repentance, which is really the most loving thing he could have done for them. And since he was the only perfect human being ever to live, (and not only a perfect human but also fully God) he was the one person who could have justly condemned them. Instead he urged them to repent. We're not perfect like him, but we are still called to give people this same message.
Generally speaking, it is not Pharisaical to hold to Biblical standards. The Pharisees were notorious for adding to the law. Instead of stopping at 'honor the sabbath' they went on to make up rules about how much weight you could carry before you were doing work on the Sabbath.
A prohibition on sex outside of wedlock is not a made-up concept. It is Biblical. This is what I was trying to say before. There are no righteous people, so when rules are being enforced, those enforcing them are not doing it based on their own goodness. Though we are all imperfect, some human has to enforce the rules. The authority behind the rule is not the person doing the enforcing. In this case, it is the Bible. Sometimes the authority behind a rule is government, or the Constitution.
If you know of other situations at this school where people did the exact same thing and did not get into trouble for it, that's another discussion. I said in my first post that in order not to mistreat people, the rules have to be enforced impartially.
But even if this is the case, it still doesn't make the having and enforcing of rules like this in a private school "Pharisaical'.
Part of the irony of the Pharisees' behavior is that they were condemning people for doing the same things they did. Make sure you don't do the same thing concerning the board of this school. The implication that they would discipline someone for associating with a 'sinner' is a little far fetched.
I am uncomfortable discussing this anymore because I feel at a disadvantage. I believe you know details of a specific situation that is none of my business and I don't want to appear to be commenting on that situation. So this will be my last post because while I think this is an important thing to talk about and wrestle with, I'd feel more comfortable if a specific real life situation was not attached to the discussion.
I'm not going to read this thread anymore. I don't want the people involved to get hurt. So don't waste time responding...just think about it.