regardless of your belief system, there are some important instructions to be had. They are ancient, but nevertheless topical as folks get ready for their adventure. Could I ask you to please read Deuteronomy 23:12-14 and take it to heart? Some of us hike these mountains year round and kind of consider them to be like our backyard.
thanks
Gene Roll
Gene, that was great!!! I’ve got to remember that one. Thanks for sharing it. I wished more hikers could read those verses! Thanks again. Papa Smurf GA-ME '02
Papa Smurf
Wow, i almost didn’t bother, but I’m so glad I did. Apparently the 11th commandment would’ve been “Leave No Trace.” I set up my tent in a less-than-holy camp one night…and stepped right in the “unclean thing.” Bastards…
Leki-Less
You think it’s funny to joke and jest about the WORD of the LORD? Think again sinners, you won’t be laughing so loud when you’re strapped across a red hot rock roasting in HELL.
Mock God today, burn tomorrow. REPENT!!!
WillK
If you have a nocturnal emission, then leave camp and you can’t come back until the following sundown and then only if you take a bath just before you come back, then we’ll let you back in.
Are you guys really going out as an army?
:cheers :cheers
Crusoe of Lonesome Lake
Will,
As a Theology major in a conservative Bible college now serving as a pastor, I hope you realize that the directives for Israel like that in Deut. 23 were given for many reasons including, but not limited to, health of the camp. I do not see any blasphemy when one takes the verses as they are written and uses them for the context given. Perhaps you should rethink your evangelistic strategy before posting such an inflamatory and theologically incorrect message. By the way, you called the other posters “sinners.” Welcome to the crowd (Romans 3:23). Yes, everyone does need to repent and turn to Christ, but we also should consider burying that which cometh from ourselves.
wayfarer
These verses are great… I think somebody should post them at all the shelters in the Smokies. Those privy areas are mine fields!
Superfeet
No, everyone does not have to repent and turn to Christ. But everyone ought to find their own moral compass to guide them through a caring, compassionate, fulfillig life, mindful of right and wrong. Christianity is just one of the many choices - and regardless of the wailings of the Bible thumping zealots, the Big Daddy is keeping His actual rankings of the most appropriate way to worship a secret - revealed only in that face-to-face encounter after death.
booger