The Prostitute

Can anyone be a metaphorical prostitute while being chaste?

I apologize, but I don't think that I'm intelligent enough to follow your point. That's on me, as I don't think that I'm inputting enough time to track the ideology. What did stand out, though, is the idea of one hardening their own heart.

What does it mean to "harden" your own heart? Is it the same "thing" as God hardening a person's heart? Certainly, when the Lord hardens a person heart, this is a statement that God has assumed control over the way a person thinks, thus has an impact on the choices one makes, such as Pharoah, as you modeled above. So again, when Scripture reads of a person hardening their own heart, does it really equate to what the Lord is doing to certain people, such as Pharoah? Can we harden the heart of another as does the Lord? No. It doesn't seem reasonable or logical that when a person hardens their heart that it is equivalent to the Lord hardening a person's heart.

Therefore, if what I am offering is true (and it may certainly be false), I would say that a person who resorts to interactions with a prostitute already has a heart that has been hardened, or, turned over to Satan (as one might put it). Certainly, to engage in habitual prostitution is not a part of the Mind of Christ, but the Mind of the Devil. Therefore, how does one decide that he/she possess the Mind of the Devil? We do not have this kind or form of control over our thinking . . . it has been determined, for all are under the Curse of Sin and Death. We are born this way . . . born to initially serve the Devil, for all of creation is under such a Curse until Redeemed by our Powerful God, Jesus.



Absolutely. This is what a person is until they have been Redeemed of the Curse of the Lord. All are in a state of metaphorical prostitution until they have received the Circumcision of Christ. A classic example of metaphorical prostitution is below:

Matthew 7:21-23 CSB - "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven. "On that day many will say to me, 'Lord, Lord, didn't we prophesy in your name, drive out demons in your name, and do many miracles in your name? ' "Then I will announce to them, 'I never knew you. Depart from me, you lawbreakers! '

Why were they considered Lawbreakers? Because they have not received the Circumcision of Christ which would have separated them from the Law. Until a person has been separated from the Law and thereby living by the Laws of the Spirit of Life, that person is a metaphorical prostitute.

Just my thoughts . . .

If you invite, incite, or encourage others to have insensitivities towards others based upon whatever reason...that's prostitution too. And that's the core of political discussions and following most theology systems.

The prostitute is all about the enticement and encouragement to harden your own heart.

Now when God hardened Pharaoh's heart it was about making him an example of an object of wrath. Pharaoh was regularly hardening his own heart of his own free will. (And likely would continue to do so without any intervention on God's part)

"So God gave them over to a reprobate mind"...
Meaning that these people did the same as Pharaoh as explained by Paul.

But it's the use of enticing and sweet sounding words to others to get them to harden their hearts which make the person the prostitute. Maybe even scratching your itching ears....(telling you what you want to hear)

Holiness is only partially controlling your actions...it's also heavily involved with your relationships with others. There is no depth of relationship with a prostitute...it's a business transaction. The prostitute has no feelings of even mild admiration towards their customers. It's about the customer's money.

And as a customer has engagements with a prostitute they harden their own heart... choosing to believe a lie instead of the truth. But that choice has more consequences than just an attitude towards the prostitute. It carries over into their entire lives coloring every relationship with others they have.

I don't agree with the bolded assertion. Perhaps you could explain it more thoroughly.

The old feigned animosity between Baptists and Methodists is an example.

Baptists encouraging their fellow denominational brothers and sisters to view the Methodist as something less than Christian and enemies of the Gospel. Those Baptists who engage in encouraging others to view them as such are prostitutes....

That's what I intended by that statement.

Those Baptists who engage in encouraging others to view them as such are prostitutes....

The old feigned animosity between Baptists and Methodists is an example.

Baptists encouraging their fellow denominational brothers and sisters to view the Methodist as something less than Christian and enemies of the Gospel. Those Baptists who engage in encouraging others to view them as such are prostitutes....

That's what I intended by that statement.

Are you having a stroke?

Are you ok? Are you having a stroke?

Most references to whoredom and whores in the Word refer to any who have known God and wandered away from Him, that is to words "dripping with honey."

The Great Whore of Revelations with names of blasphemy upon her body, and seated on seven hills is just this.

The Mother of whores. Now, who exactly are those? I believe I know but dare not say for it is not my place..

I do know our Fasther will call His true children out of her, and it stands to reason also out of her daughters.

As for what man calls a prostitute , they too are quite readily taken in by our Father as repented sinners, just lik you and I.

I still disagree (strongly).

The prostitute's (usual) primary motivation is not to get the client to harden his heart, but to open his wallet. In the process, his heart is hardened (as is hers). Your exemplary Baptists are actually trying to get others to treat a third party as inferior; there is no business transaction, and no unrighteous satisfaction of biological impulse. I simply don't see how they are in any way related.

Well at least you ARE understanding the metaphor.

That's all I was wanting.
Carry on saying how horrible I am at explaining it.
Perhaps you can do better.

It is not my intention at all to say how horrible you are in any sense; that would be a personal attack, and I have neither intent nor need to attack you. Your ideas, however, are fair game.

Just like Methodist ideas? Or Baptist ideas?

I think I get what you're saying. A lot of scripture comes to mind.

Even the first union between a man and a woman was for something greater than just procreation and companionship. Today, by revelation in the NT, we know that the primary reason for marriage is to demonstrate, in time and space, Christ's love for the church. By extension, "it is not good for Christ to be alone". This is not because He lacked anything, but because His presence in the earth demanded a companion who is in likeness and kind to Himself. This was the assurance of God's love for us in that He established a standard of relationship for The Son that only He could fulfill. Furthermore, because His intent was to have humans become the Bride, the work of redemption was sealed as absolute: The Living God would have to make a way for us. This is not an obligation toward us; this is an obligation that He, Himself, established for Christ. Like many thing, we are simply a 3rd party beneficiary of the grace of God.

This is why prostitution is so vile: it assuages the void between Christ and the Bride by lying signs. It plays to the longing the spirits of men have for the Husband but it is a poor imitation that only brings destruction.