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There is something interesting about young adults. When you are old like me, you’ve had time to make lots of mistakes. You then turn around and warn younger people not to make those same mistakes, because if they do, they will experience the same unpleasant consequences you have. But my experience is that young adults don’t like to be warned. They seemingly want to make all the mistakes that I have made.
According to scripture, we are all born in sinful flesh, our minds are bent on corruption from birth (being born the children of wrath), and our hearts above all things is most desperately wicked; so then, what part of us is it that wants to go good? The way i see it, we are all a stiffed-necked people, not just thte Israelites; and it does not take much to get us to stray from good, because the flesh is weak.
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If by "admire", you mean "find attractive", you are acting ungodly; you are defiling your mind, which part of the temple in where the Holy Spirit abodes. By admiring a female, by finding her attractive, you are acting lustfully. If you enjoy looking at her, you are acting lustfully. If you do not enjoy looking at her, then you are not admiring her. If by "admire" you mean "aspire to be like", then no, that's not sinful.
Anyway I spin it, admiring someone [for physical appearance]= thinking lustfully about them.
Anyway I spin it, admiring someone [for physical appearance]= thinking lustfully about them.
That is the biggest sin,lusting after the opposite sex,which Satan uses it so much.
Satan used Eve to tempt Adam.
The Bible says that love does not think an evil thought.It is sin if we lust in our mind,and a bum on the street is as guilty as the rich man if he wants to heap money to themselves and be rich.
While it is a sin to lust after a woman,if you glance at her and say that is a pretty woman,but do not lust after her,it would seem like it would not be sin,for if you came by a pretty flower or anything else like that,you would think it is pretty,so thinking a women is pretty does not necessarily mean lusting for your mind will think that,like something that is ugly your mind will think it is ugly,but do not lust.
Satan used Eve to tempt Adam.
The Bible says that love does not think an evil thought.It is sin if we lust in our mind,and a bum on the street is as guilty as the rich man if he wants to heap money to themselves and be rich.
While it is a sin to lust after a woman,if you glance at her and say that is a pretty woman,but do not lust after her,it would seem like it would not be sin,for if you came by a pretty flower or anything else like that,you would think it is pretty,so thinking a women is pretty does not necessarily mean lusting for your mind will think that,like something that is ugly your mind will think it is ugly,but do not lust.
Hm,
Hi res,
I was saying that yes i agree with you about the youth of today not listening to us. And that i suppose our parents said the same about us. And that experience is the best teacher, and this is why they must go through it like we did. Otherwise, mistakes would serve no purpose. And that in these mistakes, those making them can eventually make a choice. And this is the end result...the choice. Shame, i wrote it much better the first time
Regards
Devolution.
Hi res,
I was saying that yes i agree with you about the youth of today not listening to us. And that i suppose our parents said the same about us. And that experience is the best teacher, and this is why they must go through it like we did. Otherwise, mistakes would serve no purpose. And that in these mistakes, those making them can eventually make a choice. And this is the end result...the choice. Shame, i wrote it much better the first time
Regards
Devolution.
I think you are right. My husband had a secret porn addiction, and when he finally came clean with me and went to men of the church, he found out how much he was NOT alone in this.
On the flip side, I think women struggle too, but it is still such a huge stigma for a woman to admit it. There are tons of programs and groups for men, but for women? Not. And how many women want to take that risk of admitting it to someone else only to find out they are the ONLY ONE who struggles with it? Even though that's probably not the case, that is the fear, and personally, I am not willing to stick my neck out that far.
On the flip side, I think women struggle too, but it is still such a huge stigma for a woman to admit it. There are tons of programs and groups for men, but for women? Not. And how many women want to take that risk of admitting it to someone else only to find out they are the ONLY ONE who struggles with it? Even though that's probably not the case, that is the fear, and personally, I am not willing to stick my neck out that far.
Hm,
Hi res,
I was saying that yes i agree with you about the youth of today not listening to us. And that i suppose our parents said the same about us. And that experience is the best teacher, and this is why they must go through it like we did. Otherwise, mistakes would serve no purpose. And that in these mistakes, those making them can eventually make a choice. And this is the end result...the choice. Shame, i wrote it much better the first time
Regards
Devolution.
Hi res,
I was saying that yes i agree with you about the youth of today not listening to us. And that i suppose our parents said the same about us. And that experience is the best teacher, and this is why they must go through it like we did. Otherwise, mistakes would serve no purpose. And that in these mistakes, those making them can eventually make a choice. And this is the end result...the choice. Shame, i wrote it much better the first time
Regards
Devolution.
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I to think saying someone is cute to yourself is not a sin, just a passing thought, there's no lust in it, As a boy when I first started noticing that girls weren't so gross, I didn't lust after them, sex was not even a thought, it's the same if I find a girl cute today, sex is not what I'm thinking about when I say that to myself.
Now out of respect, I'll shut out even considering a girl cute who is married, but that's me and a personal thing.
you'll notice Jesus said "committed adultery in his heart" I take this as meaning either the man was married, the women or both.
That's not to say you should lust after a single person, lust is not love and is the cause of many problems.
but finding someone cute is not lust if no lustful thought accompany it
God bless and keep you
Now out of respect, I'll shut out even considering a girl cute who is married, but that's me and a personal thing.
you'll notice Jesus said "committed adultery in his heart" I take this as meaning either the man was married, the women or both.
That's not to say you should lust after a single person, lust is not love and is the cause of many problems.
but finding someone cute is not lust if no lustful thought accompany it
God bless and keep you