Let me make sure I've got this straight. If I merely look at a woman, I've committed adultery with her? If so, I don't see how I can avoid committing adultery many times a day, since here in the United States we don't keep our women in purdah, and if we tried, some of them might say something about it.kw5kw said:What did Jesus teach? Incase you forgot here is what Jesus said about adultry, which is the sexual sin that we're talking about here.
Mat 5:27Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:
Mat 5:28But I say unto you,That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
To me, that is just cut-and-dried, plain-talking. If you just look (or think about a woman in your mind) it is the same as you actually doing it!...
"But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her..." Since it's hardly possible to avoid looking or thinking, then the problem is how to look, or think, without lusting. That's why it makes much more sense to define lust as intention rather than casual thoughts or natural curiosity.
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