WHY is lust bad?

Question

OK, I see this alot. I know I am asking far too much for most people on this site by the following, and you will most likely miss the point entirely, but here goes.

Prove (already most theists are at a loss) to me that lust is INHERENTLY bad. Not "possibly" bad. Not "in some circumstances acting on lust MAY be" bad. INHERENTLY bad. UNIVERSALLY bad. Just as wet cannot be separated from liquid water neither can evil be separated from lust, because it is it's nature. As overly clear as I am trying to be, I bet I'm still not gonna get an answer. Lay it on me.

Yeah, I didn't expect much coherency here. Many people saying lust is SOMETIMES bad. Many opinions without any real proof. That's what I thought. Any last ditch attempts at actual proof before I shut this one down?

Answer 1

Deep down in the very first layer of our brain is the hard wired instruction to reproduce. Right there along with the survival instinct, very, very primal desires. Not just humans, every species.Males want to mate all the time to reproduce and keep our genes in circulation.

Religions try to take that primal instinct and call it lust, or sexual desire and tell you it's bad. That's like telling us it's wrong to breathe.

The only time that desire is bad is if it's acted upon by someone who doesn't have the consent of the other person or that person is under age.

Answer 2

advantages to all.Lust is the organic, animalistic want of the soul to sin and cater to basal urges. Lust won't be able to really be characterised as both reliable or undesirable. it truly is a classic emotion no matter if we dont favor to confess it. Even human beings relationship or married sense it. besides the undeniable fact that that's not something on the point of love. that's not lust itself that is undesirable, in straightforward words the way one deals with it. no matter if that's merely searching in the different route or doing something else to ignore about whoever u are lusting.to be in a position to respond to your question, the in straightforward words way it truly is nice (if you're in a relationship and u lust some different person) is to have adequate self administration so it would not envelope your recommendations. Lust is only a actual feeling u get at the second one. After slightly it fades away. Love on the different hand is more effective than only a actual attraction and that i believe that lust isn't superior than love. desire this replied your question.

Answer 3

Lust is inherently greedy and self serving . It is self gratification . It is mind altering and misleads a person into a false sense of security . It only lasts for a brief time and doesn't in any way help a person with their problem because the problem is still there afterwards . You are wrong , we can overcome evil , Jesus did . Peace to you

Answer 4

Without lust, we would not exist. Anyone who calls it 'bad' is nutty. The universe needs both love and lust for fuel.

Answer 5

Mat 5:28 But I say to you, Everyone looking at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Mat 5:27-28 -
Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery - See the notes at Mat_5:21. Our Saviour in these verses explains the seventh commandment. It is probable that the Pharisees had explained this commandment, as they had the sixth, as extending only to the external act; and that they regarded evil thoughts and a wanton imagination as of little consequence, or as not forbidden by the law. Our Saviour assures them that the commandment did not regard the external act merely, but the secrets of the heart, and the movements of the eye. He declares that they who indulge a wanton desire, that they who look on a woman to increase their lust, have already, in the sight of God, violated the commandment, and committed adultery in the heart. Such was the guilt of David, whose deep and awful crime fully shows the danger of indulging in evil desires, and in the rovings of a wanton eye. See 2 Sam. 11; Ps. 51. See also 2Pe_2:14. So exceeding strict and broad is the law of God! And so heinous in his sight are thoughts and feelings which may be forever concealed from the world!

Jesus equated lust to adultery of the mind. To lust after possesions, position or anything is an overarching desire to have, to own that which you do not have.

1Jo 2:16 because all that which is in the world: the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

1Jo 2:16 -
For all that is in the world - That is, all that really constitutes the world, or that enters into the aims and purposes of those who live for this life. All that that community lives for may be comprised under the following things.
The lust of the flesh - The word “lust” is used here in the general sense of desire, or that which is the object of desire - not in the narrow sense in which it is now commonly used to denote libidinous passion. See the notes at Jam_1:14. The phrase, “the lust of the flesh,” here denotes that which pampers the appetites, or all that is connected with the indulgence of the mere animal propensities. A large part of the world lives for little more than this. This is the lowest form of worldly indulgence; those which are immediately specified being of a higher order, though still merely worldly.
And the lust of the eyes - That which is designed merely to gratify the sight. This would include, of course, costly clothes, jewels, gorgeous furniture, splendid palaces, pleasure-grounds, etc. The object is to refer to the frivolous vanities of this world, the thing on which the eye delights to rest where there is no higher object of life. It does not, of course, mean that the eye is never to be gratified, or that we can find as much pleasure in an ugly as in a handsome object, or that it is sinful to find pleasure in beholding objects of real beauty - for the world, as formed by its Creator, is full of such things, and he could not but have intended that pleasure should enter the soul through the eye, or that the beauties which he has shed so lavishly over his works should contribute to the happiness of his creatures; but the apostle refers to this when it is the great and leading object of life - when it is sought without any connection with religion or reference to the world to come.
And the pride of life - The word here used means, properly, ostentation or boasting, and then arrogance or pride. - Robinson. It refers to whatever there is that tends to promote pride, or that is an index of pride, such as the ostentatious display of dress, equipage, furniture, etc.
Is not of the Father - Does not proceed from God, or meet with his approbation. It is not of the nature of true religion to seek these things, nor can their pursuit be reconciled with the existence of real piety in the heart. The sincere Christian has nobler ends; and he who has not any higher ends, and whose conduct and feelings can all be accounted for by a desire for these things, cannot be a true Christian.
But is of the world - Is originated solely by the objects and purposes of this life, where religion and the life to come are excluded.

Answer 6

Lust is fun. I'm married, and I don't want the lust removed from my life.

Answer 7

lust is a fact of life. lack of discipline and reflective thinking which allow lust to create severe aggravation is "bad".

Answer 8

It is inherently bad because it causes you to substitute the thing you lust for, for God.

"They turn the grace of our God into uncontrollable lust and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ." (Jude 1:4c)

Answer 9

Well, lust is a form of adultery which is a sin. It says in the bible that even thinking it is a sin. so it is universally sinful and therefor bad.

Answer 10

Lust is bad when it leads to sin.

Lust with your wife / husband is not bad if it does not lead to sin, unless it is not your partner you are lusting after.

Thats my opinion.