The appearance of evil.

[LadyKay]

4 minutes ago, Running Gator said:

What if he gives her a ride to dinner?  That would be the perfect storm and they clearly would be having an affair then.

Well like I said I think differently then other people. I mean I buy Snapple at the liquor store and it never once occurred to me that someone might see me coming out of there and think I am buying beer. 

[Running Gator]

1 minute ago, LadyKay said:

Well like I said I think differently then other people. I mean I buy Snapple at the liquor store and it never once occurred to me that someone might see me coming out of there and think I am buying beer. 

Which begs the question, why would it matter if you were in there to buying beer? 

[Running Gator]

9 minutes ago, Neighbor said:

 

 A response to all for consideration: Once again the Straw Man argument has been put forward; the what if this and what if thats.

Of course I, or any  person, will help  a person, any person, out of say - a burning building, but that is not the presentation  nor argument being made here. 

Lets turn that straw man around for a moment. Let's  presume a woman to be married, and her spouse hangs around the company coffee area long enough to end up finding himself  alone with the woman. Nothing wrong in it,- or is there?  She asks; Have you been to the new restaurant for lunch, and he says politely, no. She says; I think I will be there tomorrow. Perhaps we will see each other if you are there. 

The woman  is forward. She should not engage  in conversation, nor should she be alone with the man. The sin or error will have been that  of the husband of another woman, for he will have given her the opening. That is what this is about. It is not about car wrecks, breakdowns in flooding rainstorms, nor the office building being on fire.

None of those extreme situations and stretches of the imagination,  is justification for practicing the error of a man  being alone with a woman other then one's own spouse. The woman, she knows better too. The guidance is;  never ever put self into the situation that may be used to invite sin to have it's way.

And so a married man at the workplace should not be alone with a woman at the workplace- it is pretty simple.

If the "what if" scenarios force such a situation, the man, and the woman too, should  refuse it and  not work under such conditions.

  We make practical application of that principle every day. I did today.

We are not of the world, We are in it  but not of it. We each need guarD our testimony in all things we do.

Here is my take on it.

A couple weeks ago a female co-worker and myself drove two hours south in the GOV to do some training with our field folks.  We are the co-leads on the project and it is our job to do the training.  So, on the appointed day we got our stuff ready, got in the car and drove down.  Once there we did our job, stopped for lunch and then drove back.  

There was no funny business, my wife did not feel I was defiling our marriage (she actually trust her spouse).  We were two professionals doing a job. There was no evil, there was no appearance of evil, there were two adults acting like adults.  

That is the principle that we should all apply every day.

[Neighbor]

6 minutes ago, Running Gator said:

What if he gives her a ride to dinner?  That would be the perfect storm and they clearly would be having an affair then.

Yes, they ceertainly will have made th efirt error towar dthat scnario. They will have been fools risking  the well being of family friends and th eentire workplace or church body too. They will have been useful idiots in the cause against Jesus. And really , no one enters into such a situation innocently, no one. Each individual  doing that is playing a very dangerous game- and they know it.  They know it, there will be no innocence there. There never is. And lot of adults kids end up minus a safe two parents working together to build a fammily unit environment.  All anyone has to do is look around the workplace, how any times, How many has it happened, and has it worked out well? Best to  be the prude of the workplace and not the new newly divorced.

[Neighbor]

7 minutes ago, LadyKay said:

Well like I said I think differently then other people. I mean I buy Snapple at the liquor store and it never once occurred to me that someone might see me coming out of there and think I am buying beer. 

Again the straw man.  

Liquor stores sell Snapple?

Do people actually dilute their liquors?  Seems a shame in of itself, and  with Snapple? Augh!

[Kindle]

Just now, Neighbor said:

Liquor stores sell Snapple?

Yes,some do.

[LadyKay]

8 minutes ago, Neighbor said:

Again the straw man.  

Liquor stores sell Snapple?

Do people actually dilute their liquors?  Seems a shame in of itself, and  with Snapple? Augh!

I wasn't arguing with anyone I was telling a story. 

[Running Gator]

10 minutes ago, Neighbor said:

Yes, they ceertainly will have made th efirt error towar dthat scnario. They will have been fools risking  the well being of family friends and th eentire workplace or church body too. They will have been useful idiots in the cause against Jesus. And really , no one enters into such a situation innocently, no one. Each individual  doing that is playing a very dangerous game- and they know it.  They know it, there will be no innocence there. There never is. And lot of adults kids end up minus a safe two parents working together to build a fammily unit environment.  All anyone has to do is look around the workplace, how any times, How many has it happened, and has it worked out well? Best to  be the prude of the workplace and not the new newly divorced.

I am going to disagree with the part I bolded above.  I can tell you that neither I, my co-worker, our boss or anyone else in the office "knew" there was something wrong with two people of different gender driving the car two hours for work.   Instead it is expected that we will act accordingly and we will be both professional and adult in our behavior. 

[Running Gator]

9 minutes ago, Neighbor said:

Again the straw man.  

Liquor stores sell Snapple?

Do people actually dilute their liquors?  Seems a shame in of itself, and  with Snapple? Augh!

Most liquor stores sell soda, juice and all sorts of things.  Chances are the Snapple is not for diluting, but for drinking on its own.  People who buy alcohol also drink snapple. 

[LadyKay]

18 minutes ago, Running Gator said:

Which begs the question, why would it matter if you were in there to buying beer? 

 Maybe we need to save that for another topic. As this one I do not think can not take on another topic. We already have car rides and going out for dinner being debated. And here I thought I was only going to be talking about the appearance of evil when I join up for this.