I will be the first to admit, what I know about the Bible and religion you could stick in your bellybutton and still have room for your thumb.
I found a non-fiction book yesterday called...Understanding Your Man in the Mirror...something like that. It was a self help book for wives wishing to understand their husbands better. This book is heavy on religion. It says that all men (unless they are not heterosexual) will lust for woman who are not their wives and this is a sin. They need to pray to God to forgive them and then give them the strength to stop this activity. This is temptation. When I say lust, I don't mean stalkers who hide in the bushes with their extermities hanging out while they watch sunbathing women in meagerly clad outer wear. (This I know is wrong.) But the book says men who look at their waitress and have fleeting thoughts of a lapdance...this kind of lust. It's a sin!
I was in the lunchroom at work while I read this and told "P" about my findings. She totally agreed. This is a sin.
We got into a discussion about amendments..I mean commandments and what is needed to get to Heaven. I asked her why God gives us the ability to have desires like having fleeting thoughts of being (in the Biblical sense) with others who are not your spouse. She says this is the devil and God has given us Free Will to make the right choices.
For a man to look at a woman and think, deep in the back of his mind, "gee I wonder how she'd be in bed?"....a rather simple unhurtful fleeting thought is not a sin. Sorry, but even in my ignorant state I can't believe God would do that. If no one gets hurt, where's the offense?
My God wouldn't make life that hard.
More on this soon.
1 comment:
I'm agree with you, Eva.
Also, when we focus on these "sins", it seems that those thoughts just come more frequently.
Trying to eliminate "sin" from our lives is like going on a diet. I hardly ever crave ice cream, but when I go on a diet, ice cream is all that I can ever think about.
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