  Making the Hard Decisions Easy  Selected Scriptures July 20,
1986 80-24   The Bible is very explicit on matters of sin.
There's no any reason to wonder what it is that God forbids. You
can start with the Decalogue, the Ten Commandments, and the Lord
lays out the things that He does not permit. There are other
things which God commands us to do and not to do those is sin.
We are not in the dark about sin. The things explicitly spelled
out in the Scripture are very clear to us. We know what's wrong.
We also know what is right in regard to many things, for God has
given us very clear word on that.  Now we don't want to talk
about what is explicitly right and what is explicitly wrong in
the Scripture, we want to talk a little bit about what falls in
the middle because that really poses the difficult problem when
it comes to decision making. If somebody proposes to you the
possibility of lying, cheating, stealing, killing somebody,
committing adultery, coveting, that's pretty obviously not
acceptable. If somebod