Do you think since I've looked at another man with lust, I might as well have sex with him?

Question

Since Jesus says thinking and doing are the exact same thing, I might as well have sex with him, right?

What harm could it do actually doing it with him since the sin is already committed?

I mean, a sin is a sin, and to God, Lust is Just as bad as actually going out and having sex with him, So what is the difference?

What's my motivation ?

Oh, believe me, He DOES want to have sex with me.

for all the re re's, it's a hypothetical.....

(uughhhh) rolling eyes.

Edie Bop, Jesus never said anything against being a slut,
Jesus actually liked sluts, he stood up for them.

Do sluts go to hell?

Answer 1

If thinking and doing are the same thing, then why have I never gotten a girl pregnant by looking at them with "lust".
Trust me, there is a difference.

Answer 2

Jesus never said they were the "exact" same, and obviously they are not. One is a wrong attitude of the heart (which renders a person guilty of sin). The other is a terrible action with grave consequenses in this life and the next. It too is sin, but the devastation is awful.

Thinking murder is not the same as killing a child's parent, and thinking lustfully is not the same as committing literal adultery and devastating a life, families, etc.

Either is exactly wrong; both being sin, but one has greater consequences and makes the action doubly sinful because you cause other people to sin as well. Instead of repenting of your thoughts, you harden your heart and do the real deal anyway, like Satan himself. Not good company.

God didn't tell you to control yourself because He wants to ruin your fun. Remember, He created sex and gave it to us. The rule is, do it in marriage all you want. Outside of marriage is sin and hurt.

Answer 3

Jesus said this (Matthew 5:28) 28 But I say to YOU that everyone that keeps on looking at a woman so as to have a passion for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

But later on the bible goes on to talk about the steps that actually lead to commiting the act and actually sinning which finally leads to death (James 1:14-15) 14 But each one is tried by being drawn out and enticed by his own desire. 15 Then the desire, when it has become fertile, gives birth to sin; in turn, sin, when it has been accomplished, brings forth death.

But if you actually carry out the act then this applies
(1 Corinthians 6:18) 18 Flee from fornication. Every other sin that a man may commit is outside his body, but he that practices fornication is sinning against his own body.

Answer 4

Personally -- and I'm no bible scholar -- I feel that Jesus simply meant that we shouldn't allow lust to take over our lives and our minds. Sure, we're all going to lust after someone at some point in our lives ... but if we allow that lust to come between our relationship with God or (if we're married) our relationship with our spouse, then we are just as guilty of adultery than if we actually did the deed.

All sins are equal in the eyes of God. Your logic is basically saying, "Well, if I tell a little white lie, I've already sinned ... so I might as well murder someone." Christianity isn't about trying to live a perfect life. If so, we're all complete failures.

Answer 5

Even though you looked and had the thought doesn't mean you have to go through with it now. The thought is not the sin it's the action. Jesus was just warning us about the dangers if we continue looking it might turn into a desire and then give birth to action, a sin. Thought, Desire, then the Action=Sin. We need to get the thought out of our head before we begin to desire what we have just seen before it becomes a major problem.

Answer 6

That's like saying since i lost one arm why not cut off the other!
What harm would it do?
well now you wouldn't have any arms!
OK, bad example LoL
if u agree that it is a sin, then don't do it!
Think about something else, or consider marriage
And i think it would be worse if u actually did it , like degrees of sin.
It may be a sin to think of acting in lust, but going through with it is even worse, right?

Answer 7

No, "might as well" phrasing is incorrect and misleading. "just as bad" is more proper. The difference between sinning in the heart and sinning in the body is that the body has greater consequences, more feelings of loneliness will follow. The harder you pursue a substitute for God, the harder you will fall. You are just as forgiven if you have sex as you were when it was only lust, but you will have more consequences. If you truly trust Jesus for your forgiveness, you trust him to stay away from sin.

Answer 8

Do you think since I've looked at another man with lust, I might as well have sex with him? Since Jesus says thinking and doing are the exact same thing, I might as well have sex with him, right?

With that logic, if it was in your heart to commit murder, do you think that since you thought of killing another man, that you might as well kill him? Since Jesus says thinking and doing are the exact same thing, you might as well kill him, right?

The thought of sin does not justify the act of sin.

Matthew 15.18-20

"But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: These are [the things] which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man."

Romans 6.1-7

"What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?

Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also [in the likeness] of [his] resurrection: Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with [him], that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin."

Because evil thoughts proceed forth from the heart, the focus should be on the heart, that God would change the heart so that the thought of sin would cease.

Answer 9

Okay,
I just offered you a knife, and you took it. Now that you have this weapon, what are you going to do with it? Are you going to murder someone with it? Of course not!!! Knives are for cutting food, and doing practical things!!
Now, you've just taken some fire, and I want you to help other people who might be having the same struggles as you. Light the flame to a bonfire to warm someone, not to set some houses on fire!!

Answer 10

There is a difference... Jesus is not saying that both are seen the same way, but that you should view them the same way. Not to mention a sin should never be committed regardless of whether you've done it before... Jesus isn't a ticket to heaven, he is someone you love and respect.

Answer 11

never use that as an excuse to go ahead with actually performing the act of intercourse. what Jesus is trying to do, is make us pure in heart and thoughts so He has said that thinking and performing wicked acts are one in the same. that sin is already commited yeah, but doing it with him will mean doing the sin TWICE and not just once.