| Because if you're going to be totally fair about sin, you have to count intent along with action. Here's an example: two men want to kill a man. One has a knife and despite his best efforts, the man survives. The other has a gun and he blows the guy away. Does that make the first less guilty than the second? If the first had a gun too, do you not think he could have achieved the same result as the second? Or, if you wanted to debate action versus inaction, consider a paralytic. Should his wish to kill someone be considered less of a crime because he would not be able to carry it out? In the court of law, these things would probably be true, but this is because an imperfect system is incapable of really proving what someone is thinking. Therefore, it operates on evidence and absolutes. But if you're omniscient...
But I digress. My argument was that an individual's carnal knowledge should be limited to his/her mate. It may bother you that I take the Bible at its word, but nevertheless, that is what you deal with when you deal with me. I think that it is dishonest to a relationship to have sexual thoughts about other people. I hope one day to be married, and when/if that happens, I don't want my husband to be thinking about other women in a sexual way. I would feel cheated. Not only that, but what one thinks, one has a tendency to eventually do. If he's thinking about having sex with other women, one day there is a very good chance that he might actually put those thoughts into action.
Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame. -- Song 8:6 |