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Okay so lust has been brought up a few times, so I'd just like to get a few things clarified.

The dictionary has the following things to say about lust.





I think that's all a good explanation of what lust is.

Half of sexual lust is all hormones, so that part cannot be helped.

The real deadly sin bit comes in when you place the object of your desire of greater importance than God, and other such good things.

This is a very important theme in the bible that you should not let want consume you.

In fact, all seven of the deadly sins revolve around want.

Lust normally describe sexual want, but it can be anything. As the dictionary so kindly explained, in that bible verse lusts are objects of desire.

You may lust after a certain person, pleasure, or anything.

The seven deadly sins are just like catagories, lust is for sexual want, greed is for monetary want, gluttony is want for food, envy is want for something someone else has.

Of course sex, food, money, and possessions are okay by themselves but not to excess.

In fact I just noticed all this while I was typing. If everyone else has already thought of this, forgive me. sweatdrop

I think lust is a generalization of anything sexually inappropriate- sexual thoughts, sexual acts, etc. Inside of marriage, lust for your spouse is fine, because you can vent on those frustrations; outside of marriage, it's something to watch for and keep yourself from. Paul tells us that if we can't handle our lusts, then get married, because then we wouldn't be sinning; we'd be able to have sex with our spouse all we wanted.

Oh, okay. 3nodding

*Looks inside* *thinks: Maybe I should stay out of this, people don't like what i say anyways, so i'll just shut up*

Not really... I have a bad tendancy of rambling. Lust is just something that's pretty well defined in my mind... hahaha.

Sweetheart, there's a lot of other topics out there besides homosexuality that most of us agree with you on... like you're "Work is satisfying when..." thread was good and I agreed wiht most everything there.

Like many people have said, it's not so much your opinions on some things it's how you state them that offends people.

I'm sure you have valid, good opinions on a subject like lust which, provided you state it in a respectful way, a lot of us will agree with you and appreciate your insight.

TJF, would it be too much to ask that if you have something to say, you say it, rather than 'thinking' it and pretending to ignore every one else's presence?

Everyone else (that is, anyone who wants to actually participate in the thread as it is, rather than going back to a discussion of homosexuality, which we know will get us no where):

So, it's okay to lust after people, so long as it doesn't come before God, and doesn't consume a large percentage of your time, right? So where does masturbation and porn fit into all this? I mean, everyone knows that those are bad things that good Christian teens don't do, but what if it's not being put before God and not happaning often? Then it's okay?

This doesn't concern me personally, mind you, I'm just speaking out of curiosity.

Well, you have to think about why you're doing those things. Let's look at porn (not literally ... sweatdrop ). People view it to get sexual stimulation (which normally leads to masturbation). Porn allows a person to lust in their own privacy, and freely I might add. Masturbation is usually a result of lust (whether porn was involved or not). I don't know anyone who can masturbate and not think sexual thoughts (okay, that sounded weird confused ). Then there's the whole thought process of masturbation is kinda like "self-sex" and if you're not married to yourself it's a sin to have sex with yourself. -shrug- I heard that somewhere.