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Intent.
Again, the issue is intent.
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Intent? There's not a bit of difference between a guy watching a porn video to satisfy his lust and a guy closing his eyes to imagine the same thing to satisfy his lust.
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Close attention to Christ's words...
Matthew 5:28
But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. This describes a man gazing upon a woman with the intention of using and exploiting her. This isn't the fantasy of a single person who has no intention of using and exploiting someone.
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smh So your commentary of
Matthew 5:28 is that Jesus was saying it's only sin to look and lust after a woman if you want to use and exploit her??
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Also, Jesus uses the word "adultery". Which means the man who is gazing at a woman is married to another.
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Oh, so Jesus was only talking about married men, right? Somewhere Jesus later mentioned that His words there aren't applicable to single men.
What version of the Bible are you reading?!
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Do you really think God intended people not to have sexual attraction, interest, thoughts, or desires for one another prior to marriage?
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Sexual attraction is not the same as using your mind to enact a porn scene.
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Your Christianity is rather fake and robotic.
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And uptight, don't forget uptight!
I guess I should be more like you and others who go even further and watch porn with their spouses and trade partners.
Man, this whole bringing my flesh into subjection is just a bummer! Paul was so uptight!
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Look at the Song of Solomon. Each of the lovers spend quite a bit of time fantasizing about each other. And take note... they aren't married until chapter 4.
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Read it again. They didn't fantasize sexually about each other chapter 4, which was after the marriage at the end of chapter 3.
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It's normal and healthy to find the opposite sex attractive. It's also normal and healthy to have sexual thoughts and desires.
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Again, finding someone attractive and putting that person in your own private porn show are two different things. Sin always presents itself as something "normal and healthy." What is normal and healthy isn't always holy, and that's what blows your argument away.
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It's even normal and healthy to have sexual thoughts and desires about the woman you want to marry.
What is sin is when a married man gazes upon a woman who isn't his wife and has sexual thoughts and desires that he intends to act upon.
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One sentence doesn't match the other. Can't claim both.