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  • This actually is not true and this verse has been misinterpreted. Here is an article that will explain this: http://www.libchrist.com/bible/lust.html If you believe what you asked, you are basically set up for a life's worth of sexual guilt. Good question +4
  • Not hardly. Are you referring to Mat 5:28, or is there a scripture that says that? http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mat5:28;&version=15;49;9;47;31; NWT Mt 5:27-32 “YOU heard that it was said, ‘You must not commit adultery.’ But I say to YOU that everyone that keeps on looking at a woman so as to have a passion for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. If, now, that right eye of yours is making you stumble, tear it out and throw it away from you. For it is more beneficial to you for one of your members to be lost to you than for your whole body to be pitched into Ge‧hen′na. Also, if your right hand is making you stumble, cut it off and throw it away from you. For it is more beneficial to you for one of your members to be lost than for your whole body to land in Ge‧hen′na.  “Moreover it was said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’ However, I say to YOU that everyone divorcing his wife, except on account of fornication, makes her a subject for adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery." . The law of the Christ is based mostly on principles, where as the Mosaic law consisted of many laws and decrees. There are many principles throughout the Bible that are for a protection. If King David had not kept on looking at Bathsheba, his desire would not have been overbearing and he would not have caused the death of Urriah. It is not very loving to ones wife for a man to be gawking at another woman. http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deu5:21;%20Job31:1;%202Pet2:14;%20Psa%20119:37;%20pro6:25;&version=49;50;9;47;31; /. / http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Eph%205:3-5;2Sam11:2-4;Jam1:14-15;%20pro3:5-6;%201cor10:12-13;&version=49;50;9;47;31;
  • Huh? Could you run that by me one more time?
  • No, the intention of what the Bible is saying is that if you've thought through the act of doing something, then it's the same thing as if you've already done it. It's not a negative application, meaning if you don't do something, then you can never do it; it's only applicable in the positive application (i.e. doing it).
  • What scripture are you referencing in your question?
  • I believe the scripture that you are talking about is referring to lust.
  • ...No you got it twisted. People think crazy things all the time...the thing is if you know it is a wrong thought...then you dont sit there and let it manifest in your head, and ponder on it. The minute you know its an abstract thought you think, thats not my thought...where did that come from, shuv it outta your head...and dont think about it anymore. If its not coming from you WILLINGLY...it is nothing. But we all have crazy random thoughts on occassion. Manifestation of a thought is what creates large problems in people, you have a thought, you allow it to infiltrate, you start thinking about it willingly...it becomes a desire, then an obsession, then you act upon it...when you reached the "willing thought" and it is wrong, then it is a sin. But thoughts like, I wish I could marry them, or I wish they would love me...or something isnt wrong, its just a thought...its only thoughts of evil things that are wrong.
  • ...and Gawd said "If you done it....." Okey Dokey then...

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