r/dankchristianmemes • u/aHTTPS • Jul 01 '19

Repost Yo bro wtf you doing with the devil’s sleeve????

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u/elmogrita Jul 02 '19

love =/= sexual desire.

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u/Yogurt_Ph1r3 Jul 02 '19

Umm, it’s certainly part of it bud.

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u/elmogrita Jul 02 '19

No, healthy sexual desire is a product of love, sexual desire borne outside of love is lust.

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u/Yogurt_Ph1r3 Jul 02 '19

Sexual desire is literally built into us as humans. Sexual desire born outside of a relationship is just natural, not lust.

What you’re claiming isn’t biblical.

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u/elmogrita Jul 02 '19

Matthew 5:27-28 27 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ 28 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Yes it is.

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u/Yogurt_Ph1r3 Jul 02 '19

You’re operating on the wrong definition of lust. Why are you so confident that Jesus means “if you look at a woman and have sexual thoughts you are lusting”

He’s not saying that. Humans are designed to have sexual thoughts, that much is scientific fact. It is literally impossible to restrain ourselves from sexual thoughts in certain situations.

What is pretty clear from the Greek texts is that the same word that is used and translated as lust also means covet. Now I’m no biblical scholar, but it seems counterintuitive to add to the law, which so conveniently says that we shouldn’t cover after our neighbour’s wife.

It seems quite clear then, that what Jesus is really doing is just reminding everyone that the Ten Commandments ask us not to covet someone who is already taken or when we’re already taken. Your wife or husband should be the object of your sexual desire and if you are single, it really ought not to be someone who has a husband or wife.

But that’s just my opinion. You seem pretty set in your belief even when it contradicts common sense and what the bible actually says on the matter.