Funnily enough, at 18, I was single, with no ‘boy’ distractions and began searching for a relationship with The Lord. I was at peace just searching for Him. Then met my future hubby, and I’m sorry to say, sex took over. That was 35 years ago. now I’m free of sex addiction & know that I should have kept my eyes fixed on the prize. I wasted so many years of peace, joy, love....’your Maker is your husband’ (isa 54)
Do I have a degree in psychology? No. Do I study psychology? Yes. But no I disagree. Emotional response isn't learned. A women who is raped doesn't have to learn it is wrong.
That’s the catch. No longer two but one. I’m not trying to please people just the other half of me/us.I don’t think it ever stops, but when we stop trying to please people we’ll be free indeed
you can shock the world if you say a single truth you know, because nobody knows one
That’s not the lesson learned. Often women raped attach a negative emotion to sex. In adolescence girls learn acceptance from promiscuity. Getting a sense of value from pleasing others sexually causes one to perform this act to duplicate this emotion of acceptance. It’s been said: girls play at sex to get love and boys play at love to get sex. Sex is a pleasurable act of reproduction until you etch it with an emotion. Then it may express itself differently for many people. Some may respond sexually to romance, others respond to dominance. I think someone should do a study on Fifty Shades of Grey. When those books came out they lit a fire in the pants of many women. It was crazy how many comments were publicly made about unresponsive wives initiating sexual acts with their husbands. This is directly related to instinctive behaviour. The alpha male role causes women to be sexually submissive. This is nature.
Take a step back. You are about to run over probably the most important lesson about being “born into sin”. Humans are taught right from wrong. This is the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The fruit is guilt. If humans weren’t taught to be lustful and to desperately desire sex they would just behave instinctively. Because the programming God gave us gets overwritten with what society teaches, we are separated from God. Forgiveness eliminates guilt restoring us to God and that is why we need forgiveness and forgive others.
Do you think that the tree is literal or possibly allegorical? When I asked God He told me the latter.
Under the old format you became a Senior Member after 100 posts. You started as a Junior member advanced to Member Status after 25 posts. Under the new format Junior, Member, and Senior status is no longer designated. New member is assigned under the new format when you first joined. There are other status levels but don't have a clue how one obtains them.
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Oh, I just wondered because somebody was rebuking a ‘new member’ as though they didn’t have the right to ‘preach’ unless they were senior member
I will agree that man in his arrogance is too stupid to see the big picture. Whatever caused men to think they could “be like gods” was the beginning of the end. I guarantee it was not a literal snake and the eating of a forbidden fruit. This part is figurative. There is a back story that Moses didn’t think would be advantageous to convey. Genesis was written for the displaced nomadic people to accept certain principles. First being Yahweh is the Creator. Secondly, He has authority to do as He pleases so it is better to serve and be blessed rather than the alternative.
Please reference where Christ spoke of Adam and Eve and the Garden. My searches are coming up empty.
