What is Lust?

[Varik]

It seems that people on here have different definitions of what lust is and how someone commits lust.

So the question is what is lust to you? Tell what it is to you and why.

 

[Dannager]

Are we talking the current denotation of lust, the current connotation of lust or the biblical connotation of lust?

 

[TheOrthodoxOne]

It seems that people on here have different definitions of what lust is and how someone commits lust.

So the question is what is lust to you? Tell what it is to you and why.

Perhaps this would best answer such a question: Any human being who claims to be free from lusting after something in this world, is a liar; and certainly no Christian.

 

[Armistead]

Not another one.

There are about a hundred topics on this one now...so I'll pass this time.

 

[dayhiker]

From my readings the Bible and around the web, lust is often defined in a much stricker sense by some Chirstians today that what I see it meaning in the Bible.

dayhiker

 

[Apollo Celestio]

I hear it's "desiring what is forbidden"

 

[CShephard53]

I hear it's "desiring what is forbidden"

You would be correct:
epithumeō
Thayer Definition:
1) to turn upon a thing
2) to have a desire for, long for, to desire
3) to lust after, covet
3a) of those who seek things forbidden
Part of Speech: verb