Hi All
I have read through here with interest.
I agree that the eros love felt is the same whoever may be feeling it.
I agree that there is a difference between the identity and the act.
However, what I have difficulty with is; Does the feeling justify the act?
Is it not the same for a married heterosexual who has those feelings for someone other than his wife? Or someone who cannot have a child? Or an unmarried heterosexual?
Is this not where the choice comes? Do I act on my feelings or do I act on the Word of God?
Is this not why we have the Word? So that when we are faced with choices, however difficult, we are to choose what God says over what we think/feel or understand.
I don't think that God wants us to live our lives depressed because we desire something we can't have. I think He wants us to depend on Him for everything.
He is:-
El-Shaddai -- The God Who is Sufficient for the Needs of His People
Jehovah-Jireh -- The Lord our Provider
Jehovah-Shalom -- The Lord our Peace
I am the LORD thy God which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.
Surely it is His desire that we look to Him to allow Him to be all those things, and more, to us. In doing so we find that in time we have no feeling of lack as He fills us with His desires and thus meets all our needs.
I am not saying this is easy by any means. That is why 'the road is narrow'
I have read through here with interest.
I agree that the eros love felt is the same whoever may be feeling it.
I agree that there is a difference between the identity and the act.
However, what I have difficulty with is; Does the feeling justify the act?
Is it not the same for a married heterosexual who has those feelings for someone other than his wife? Or someone who cannot have a child? Or an unmarried heterosexual?
Is this not where the choice comes? Do I act on my feelings or do I act on the Word of God?
Is this not why we have the Word? So that when we are faced with choices, however difficult, we are to choose what God says over what we think/feel or understand.
I don't think that God wants us to live our lives depressed because we desire something we can't have. I think He wants us to depend on Him for everything.
He is:-
El-Shaddai -- The God Who is Sufficient for the Needs of His People
Jehovah-Jireh -- The Lord our Provider
Jehovah-Shalom -- The Lord our Peace
I am the LORD thy God which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.
Surely it is His desire that we look to Him to allow Him to be all those things, and more, to us. In doing so we find that in time we have no feeling of lack as He fills us with His desires and thus meets all our needs.
I am not saying this is easy by any means. That is why 'the road is narrow'
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