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Gryphonette · #4 (**permalink**) 02-04-2008, 10:49 AM

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Originally Posted by blhowes

This question is primarily for those who watched the Super Bowl yesterday.

For some on the PB, it would have been a sin to watch the Super Bowl. Its my impression, though, that its not a legalistic type thing of do's and don'ts, but that they'd rather be focusing on the Lord on Sunday. Their delight for the Lord on that day far outweighs any delight they might have gotten watching the Superbowl. That's a neat work of grace, 'cause I'm sure for many there would have been a time when they would have enjoyed watching and not thought twice about it.

For those who did watch it, I assume, since you watched it, that you don't believe its a sin to watch. What is your biblical basis for believing that its not a sin?

I don't get the presumed conflict between "delight for the Lord" and "delight...watching the Super Bowl."

Unless the only way one can take delight in the Lord is to sit still, eyes closed, and concentrate upon Him, which is certainly an excellent thing to do but doing that for hours on end doesn't get the kids fed and bathed, or the dog walked, or anything else accomplished.

I mean, is that the choice set before us on a minute to minute basis? Take delight in the Lord or any other activity? They're mutually exclusive?

A common protest against watching professional football - or any other sport - on Sunday is that it involves people working on that day.

I don't quite see how one could logically use electricity on Sunday, then, seeing as how it necessitates there being people on duty at the electric company, ditto for turning on the water, driving to church (people on the road means police officers need to be on duty; Christ Chapel hires off-duty police officers to direct traffic on Montgomery St. on Sunday mornings, AAMOF), being on the internet due to the people who have to work to monitor the servers,etc. or a host of other activities.

There is often an excuse given that those are necessary positions, but that's baloney. Millions if not billions of people on the planet live without electricity, running water, or paved roadways with a proper police force.

Amazing how what are actually luxuries are classified by spoiled Americans as necessities.

Unless someone is relying upon candles or oil lamps, using only water that was drawn on Saturday, and walking to church, the protest that watching professional sports on Sunday is to encourage others to break the Sabbath is illogical.

My tuppence, and worth every dime.

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