A question about adultery

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NO, Lust is always wrong. And the actions of lust are not godly. No lust in the bible self-identifies as a good thing. Try all you want it is not biblical. Slice it, dice it. Lust is no good.

"I lust for my wife." or "unmarried women."

It is a foolish statement and
And he said to them, “I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer. Luke 22:15

“I have eagerly desired
ἐπεθύμησα (epethymēsa)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 1st Person Singular
Strong's Greek 1937: To long for, covet, lust after, set the heart upon. From epi and thumos; to set the heart upon, i.e. Long for.
 

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And he said to them, “I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer. Luke 22:15

“I have eagerly desired
ἐπεθύμησα (epethymēsa)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 1st Person Singular
Strong's Greek 1937: To long for, covet, lust after, set the heart upon. From epi and thumos; to set the heart upon, i.e. Long for.

No, that is ridiculous. The Greek interpretation in context to the Passover meal in Luke 22:15 is NOT Lusting to eat with you. But Jesus wanted to have fellowship with them but did not because of what was coming and What that Meal represented.

" The Last Supper". His body and Blood. You choose to cheapen that with lust for?

Please stop. Jesus lusting for at the Last supper is not contextual nor the best word to use for proper Exegesis of the text.


Error at best of your understanding.
 

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And he said to them, “I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer. Luke 22:15

“I have eagerly desired
ἐπεθύμησα (epethymēsa)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 1st Person Singular
Strong's Greek 1937: To long for, covet, lust after, set the heart upon. From epi and thumos; to set the heart upon, i.e. Long for.
WOW someone did like the fact that Jesus used the Greek word for lust when talking about the Passover.
 

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No, that is ridiculous. The Greek interpretation in context to the Passover meal in Luke 22:15 is NOT Lusting to eat with you. But Jesus wanted to have fellowship with them but did not because of what was coming and What that Meal represented.

" The Last Supper". His body and Blood. You choose to cheapen that with lust for?

Please stop. Jesus lusting for at the Last supper is not contextual nor the best word to use for proper Exegesis of the text.


Error at best of your understanding.
Jesus used the Greek word for lust, the same word for lust when desiring a married woman.
 

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I wish Christians would read verses in context and understand the Hebrew and Greek meaning of word. Too many times Christians will only read the english words. So much is lost in translation.
 

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Jesus used the Greek word for lust, the same word for lust when desiring a married woman.
NO, he did not. The proper application is not lust.

Lust is never a good thing because it is driven by the flesh. You are wrong and trying to justify your understanding, which is unbiblical.
 

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NO, he did not. The proper application is not lust.

Lust is never a good thing because it is driven by the flesh. You are wrong and trying to justify your understanding, which is unbiblical.
Luke 22:15 V-AIA-1S
GRK: αὐτούς Ἐπιθυμίᾳ ἐπεθύμησα τοῦτο τὸ
NAS: to them, I have earnestly desired to eat


Matthew 5:28 V-ANA

GRK: πρὸς τὸ ἐπιθυμῆσαι αὐτὴν ἤδη
NAS: at a woman with lust for her has already
 

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Luke 22:15 V-AIA-1S
GRK: αὐτούς Ἐπιθυμίᾳ ἐπεθύμησα τοῦτο τὸ
NAS: to them, I have earnestly desired to eat


Matthew 5:28 V-ANA

GRK: πρὸς τὸ ἐπιθυμῆσαι αὐτὴν ἤδη
NAS: at a woman with lust for her has already
Play word games all you like and violate Greek Translation.

Contrast is also important with in the text. To get the full meaning you must look above a the text and below, also with the complete sentence, paragraph, chapter, and book.


You cannot take earnestly desire to eat an apply lust for a women to be the something.

Jesus desiring to eat the last supper is not contextual with Jesus lusting after women.

You are reading into the text what you want to see and that is called Eisegesis which is improper biblical interpretation.

The text used must stay within the text start with the text and end with the text.

Your application and interpretation are errored.

That is all I going to say on this. i'm done.
 

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I wish Christians would read verses in context and understand the Hebrew and Greek meaning of word. Too many times Christians will only read the english words. So much is lost in translation.
that's the pot calling the kettle black.
 

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Play word games all you like and violate Greek Translation.

Contrast is also important with in the text. To get the full meaning you must look above a the text and below, also with the complete sentence, paragraph, chapter, and book.


You cannot take earnestly desire to eat an apply lust for a women to be the something.

Jesus desiring to eat the last supper is not contextual with Jesus lusting after women.

You are reading into the text what you want to see and that is called Eisegesis which is improper biblical interpretation.

The text used must stay within the text start with the text and end with the text.

Your application and interpretation are errored.

That is all I going to say on this. i'm done.
You miss the point. In the Greek the word for "lust' is neither good nor bad. It's about the strength of the desire. It's all about context.
 
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The reason that Biblical Christians warn people that immoral sexual behavior is dangerous to society is because that immoral sexual activity is risky and dangerous.

Some sins were very harmful, dangerous and devastating to the health and livelihood of the Jewish society.

And maybe the Hebrews were weaker in their bodies and immune system and the Jews had certain dispositions for having health problems relating to immoral sexual behaviors..

or the surrounding civilizations where the Hebrews entered into as aliens and foreigners were carying germs and common virus that the Hebrews had not built up immunity for - as they were entering back into the land Of Canaan coming from Egypt after hundreds of years


We can remember the suffering of devastation with disease, sickness, plagues and death that the Native American Indians suffered having no immunity when the Europeans came to their homelands.

thus the death penalty was the only solution for saving the lives of their Hebrew society - thousands of Hebrews died just in a single day from a plague in several incidences


The Bible makes very strong demands that the Hebrews were to be very involved and careful about the tasks of making sure to be washing pans, pots and clothing and washing after having sex was a mandatory law that Moses established.

Perhaps The Jews had health problems or perhaps God wanted to prevent them from having problems down the road, - and their immune system was susceptible and sensitive to the inhabitants, crops, animals and land of Canaan, as they were moving nearly 400 miles from their home in Egypt to dwell in a different environment

Today so many cities are filled with millions of diseased people who are dying and infected and spreading their infections, while they concentrate on overweight people buying a cup of soda pop.

these communities are literally destroying themselves and also destroying the family culture.

There were basic sins and laws that were made and there were “ BLOOD CRIME Laws “ that were a health risk to all. –

The term their blood shall be upon them applies to SINS that probably demand a death penalty when they are broken.
their blood shall be upon them = Meaning the “ BLOOD CRIME “ was committed against the BLOOD pathogens ....

In The Bible, once an infected person contaminated the water supply or other people through food, feces, blood or other germ spreading methods. it is over for you and whomever You Yourself also infect,

Entire families and neighborhoods are infected to die a slow, painful, horrible suffering agonizing death.

Once You catch a virus, germ, disease, Infection or anything - You are finished. { done } Your family and all others who you come into contact with are also doomed to suffer a life of agony, suffering and horrible pain –

dying slowly from a plague or disease or virus or symptom.

God was making sure that the Jews knew about it and that the “ BLOOD CRIMES LAWS “ were very clear and people had a defense and that was putting and forcing the “ BLOOD CRIME OFFENDERS - OUT “ and away from Your children and wives - as a protection.

when there were no hospitals, medicine, cures, treatments, vaccinations and medicine and doctors. Once You catch a disease You will suffer forever and all You also infect innocent others who also will suffer a life of horrible, painful, agonizing torment even though You never even committed a sin. the only way to ensure safety was to not allow these risky behaving people near Your city.

Their Blood be upon them - Blood Crimes are real, It just seems that man has decided that with man - made intuition and personal self judgment that we can bypass the Law Of Moses and maybe with the civilizations updating in technology, science and medical advancements this can be seen as an excuse to continue in immorality.

However, as time has passed this has proven to be a complete failure for mankind overall, the updates in technology, science and medical advancements have prevented the destruction of millions living in sexual immorality but -


it has failed overall in general for many, many billions of people who have died from illnesses, diseases and symptoms that technology, science and medical advancements have never cured and prevented. by disobedience to God.

 

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The reason that Biblical Christians warn people that immoral sexual behavior is dangerous to society is because that immoral sexual activity is risky and dangerous.


Some sins were very harmful, dangerous and devastating to the health and livelihood of the Jewish society.

And maybe the Hebrews were weaker in their bodies and immune system and the Jews had certain dispositions for having health problems relating to immoral sexual behaviors..

or the surrounding civilizations where the Hebrews entered into as aliens and foreigners were carying germs and common virus that the Hebrews had not built up immunity for - as they were entering back into the land Of Canaan coming from Egypt after hundreds of years

We can remember the suffering of devastation with disease, sickness, plagues and death that the Native American Indians suffered having no immunity when the Europeans came to their homelands.

thus the death penalty was the only solution for saving the lives of their Hebrew society - thousands of Hebrews died just in a single day from a plague in several incidences

The Bible makes very strong demands that the Hebrews were to be very involved and careful about the tasks of making sure to be washing pans, pots and clothing and washing after having sex was a mandatory law that Moses established.

Perhaps The Jews had health problems or perhaps God wanted to prevent them from having problems down the road, - and their immune system was susceptible and sensitive to the inhabitants, crops, animals and land of Canaan, as they were moving nearly 400 miles from their home in Egypt to dwell in a different environment

Today so many cities are filled with millions of diseased people who are dying and infected and spreading their infections, while they concentrate on overweight people buying a cup of soda pop.

these communities are literally destroying themselves and also destroying the family culture.

There were basic sins and laws that were made and there were “ BLOOD CRIME Laws “ that were a health risk to all. –

The term their blood shall be upon them applies to SINS that probably demand a death penalty when they are broken.
their blood shall be upon them = Meaning the “ BLOOD CRIME “ was committed against the BLOOD pathogens ....


In The Bible, once an infected person contaminated the water supply or other people through food, feces, blood or other germ spreading methods. it is over for you and whomever You Yourself also infect,

Entire families and neighborhoods are infected to die a slow, painful, horrible suffering agonizing death.

Once You catch a virus, germ, disease, Infection or anything - You are finished. { done } Your family and all others who you come into contact with are also doomed to suffer a life of agony, suffering and horrible pain –

dying slowly from a plague or disease or virus or symptom.

God was making sure that the Jews knew about it and that the “ BLOOD CRIMES LAWS “ were very clear and people had a defense and that was putting and forcing the “ BLOOD CRIME OFFENDERS - OUT “ and away from Your children and wives - as a protection.

when there were no hospitals, medicine, cures, treatments, vaccinations and medicine and doctors. Once You catch a disease You will suffer forever and all You also infect innocent others who also will suffer a life of horrible, painful, agonizing torment even though You never even committed a sin. the only way to ensure safety was to not allow these risky behaving people near Your city.

Their Blood be upon them - Blood Crimes are real, It just seems that man has decided that with man - made intuition and personal self judgment that we can bypass the Law Of Moses and maybe with the civilizations updating in technology, science and medical advancements this can be seen as an excuse to continue in immorality.

However, as time has passed this has proven to be a complete failure for mankind overall, the updates in technology, science and medical advancements have prevented the destruction of millions living in sexual immorality but -

it has failed overall in general for many, many billions of people who have died from illnesses, diseases and symptoms that technology, science and medical advancements have never cured and prevented. by disobedience to God.
I understand one reason for the problem with fornication is STDs that spread through out the world. GOD wanted to prevent this with the Hebrews. If churches would talk about this, it would make a bigger impact. In heaven there are no diseases. There could be sex in heaven, we will have perfect bodies.
 
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Amen, Love as we perceive in our physical bodies will completely take on a new meaning,

a heavenly meaning of love with emotion and connection to others we love that is pure and the most wonderful feeling that in this body we cannot even imagine. The love of God is perfect, pure and is true love.
 

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I understand one reason for the problem with fornication is STDs that spread through out the world. GOD wanted to prevent this with the Hebrews. If churches would talk about this, it would make a bigger impact. In heaven there are no diseases. There could be sex in heaven, we will have perfect bodies.
It doesn't matter how rational you think your ideas are, or how logical; they're still stupid and just show your total ignorance more and more every time you open your mouth.
 

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This thread reminds me of the end of the Book of Judges and the book of 1Samuel.

Popular opinion became more important than what God had said...even to the High Priest Eli who was characterized by not restraining his sons.

The offerings to God were boiled and not burned and the altar fires weren't kept lit....not even the candle in the Tabernacle was kept lit and was allowed to go out every day.

But God had had enough....the opportunity for repentance was over and gone.

God began talking to young Samuel and his first prophecy was the destruction of Eli and his lineage.
There was no more opportunity for repentance whatsoever because Eli was blind and couldn't even read the Torah anymore. He didn't introduce Samuel to God. So God was a stranger to Samuel.
 

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This thread reminds me of arrogance and thinking you're smarter than everyone else in the room.
 

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Amen, Love as we perceive in our physical bodies will completely take on a new meaning,

a heavenly meaning of love with emotion and connection to others we love that is pure and the most wonderful feeling that in this body we cannot even imagine. The love of God is perfect, pure and is true love.
There will also be a physical part. After all we will be able to eat and drink in heaven, no reason to think we not have sex. The angels desired it in Genesis 6.
 
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how dare we as - " english speaking males " - ask the question

what does the modern name "" Zacharias / Zachary Sachary have to do with ancient resemblance and connections to the idea resembling - SUGAR

today " saccharin : is 200 – 700 times sweeter than sugar ,

Zacharias has a pagan worldly historical definition that has been lost

what else has been lost in the calamity of the weight of history of those throughout history attempting to accept real time resolutions for a worldly realm lost language dominated by power and dominion.
 
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With someone like King David and his horrible sin and crime of adultery

he lived before the Lord in devotion and faith and trust in God., David loved the Lord with all of his heart from his youth - he delighted in serving the Lord, trusting with faith, knowing the power and strength of God .

but - David was a very bloody and violent man, David from his youth had lived a very, very hard life,

a life filled with such hardship, great danger, with violence, hostile environments and life threatening obstacles even as he was a youth.

David alone - fought against a lion and also a bear defending his livestock,
David alone - fought against Goliath the giant defending his family and people.

David - was commissioned by King Saul to kill two - hundred Philistines, in order to cut off and collect 100 foreskins of 200 Philistine males - by cutting the foreskins from the penis of 200 Philistine men -

because - Saul saw and knew that the LORD was with David, and that Michael - King Saul's own daughter - loved David.

[*]to avenged the enemies of king Saul, King Saul commanded this - but king Saul - planned to cause David to be killed by the hand of the Philistines, in a perverted promise that David would receive his daughters hand in love and marriage.

King Saul ordered David to kill and cut off the penis foreskins from 200 Philistine men” in order to marry his daughter,

CAN YOU IMAGINE WHAT DAVID PSYCOLOICALLY and INWARDLY and ENOTIONALLY FELT ?

WITH THIS BARBARITY AND PERVERSE SITUATION - forced upon him by a demanding King who despised him, who wanted him dead, who sought to pervert and destroy his life.

KING SAUL DEMANDING BY LAW AND EQUATING BY FORCE - DAVID KILLING AND CUTTING OFF 100 penis foreskins from 200 Philistine men - collecting these 100 penis foreskins in a bloody filthy bag and presented to Saul - as something that would make David as worthy to the obtaining of the love of his very first wife , a romance, an intimacy and first wife of a young man who loves the Lord, loves his family and his people and wants a wife and a family

Meanwhile - Saul is speaking to his own son Jonathan, and to all his servants commanding - that they should kill David.

After David cuts off 100 penis foreskins and kills 200 Philistine men - IMMEDIATELY - King Saul then suddenly turns his entire military force against David and hunts him down like a dog, making David’s life a living nightmare, filled with fear, anxiety, trauma and hopelessness and despair.

In the mind of David he has done good all his life, he has fought and killed the ferocious lion, fought and killed the bear to defend his peoples flocks and livestock, David has fought and killed a massive powerful giant, Goliath and saved his people and put his very life on the line and sacrificed himself to serve his family, his people whom he cares for and deeply loves to defend his loved ones - to the very death.

His life feels in the balance

DAVID had killed and cut off 100 penis foreskins from 200 Philistine men, collecting these 100 penis foreskins in a filthy bloody bag presented to King Saul - in faith that he will receive true love from a woman who truly loves him and now King Saul then suddenly turns his back upon David and commands his entire military force against David to hunt him down like a dog and take his very life !

THE LORD INTERVENES IN THE LIFE OF DAVID - and the life and reign of King Saul is ended by his own evil and perversity, King Saul falls upon his very own sword in a suicidal self destructive death of disobedience and perversity and now - this bloody man David who has been abused and lived most of his life fighting - is to take his place as king,
AS KING, DAVID FALLS INTO THE SAME CYCLE OF ABUSE - - as a path he has been forced upon, living a horror
AND HE SO EASILY FINDS HIMSELF PSYCOLOICALLY AND INWARDLY AND ENOTIONALLY WHOM ONCE LIVED AS A VICTIM - AS THE PREY - AS THE VERY KILL , - running for his life, this man finds himself as the King and his own wife has left him and married another man now he is looking of someone to love him, to truly, truly, truly love him

King David, - finds Bathsheba and believes by faith in his heart that this woman would be someone whom would provide immediate connection and love for him,
even though this sin is the immediate needs of a man, longing for someone he feels he needs
even though this sin is the immediate needs of a man, longing for someone he believes at first sight whom would love him forever

even though this sin is the immediate needs of a man who has no concern or mental capability nor experience to understand the importance of husband and wife,

King David suddenly finds himself committing adultery and he is trying to cover up this sin with murder - King David sinned and murdered an innocent man - but he repents - God judges David in this world because David repents and accepts his sin and will accept that
God will not allow his son conceived in adultery to live,
God will not allow David to build a temple,
God will not allow David to build a family from the many wives that he has married - but David has been judged, his son will die,

all of his wives will be taken from him - but the one thing that David did after all of this - he completely maintained his war, violence and extermination of the enemies of his family and people by continuing to fight in war and destroy the Ishmaelites and all of the enemies of his people.

This - David did before the Lord because this is literally all that he understood as a man.

to fight in war and destroy the Ishmaelites and all of the enemies of his people, completely exterminating and removing the enemies of his people from the face of the earth - in this David served the Lord faithfully.

The Lord Jesus was proud to be the Son of a man named “ King David “

he failed and repented and this is all the Lord Yahashua will ask in the living circumstance of each and every man and woman

something that the earthly can never judge without the Lord Of Hosts