Seven Deadly Sins: The Last Question?

Question

This is my last "Seven Deadly Sins" question. I have saved this question for last purposely.


LUST........ Do you think we live in a lustful society? Why or why not? Why is lust a deadly sin? Include Scripture if you can. The most elaborate (and correct!) answer wins!

Answer 1

I'm not worried about winning so this will not be very elaborate:

Yes, I do think we live in a lustful society. If you watch TV, videos, some video games or take a look at the clothing styles of today, they base much of their success on the fact that "lust" (the sexual desire for sex without emotion or committment) is rampant.

How many girls do you know that diet themselves to death to be sexy because some high fashion model was a size 2? Or how many guys spend thousands of dollars for a gym membership or thousands of dollars on muscle building chemicals to get "buff" (muscled well beyond the normal) They have all been taken in by the advertising for products to make them acceptable to the opposite sex (or even the same sex) This preoccupation with having to look a certain way to be acceptable is sick. People are consumed with the desire to be and/or stay young because sexy is youthful and robust. It is all based on lust in one way or another.
The advertising gurus have learned that if you attach sexiness to any product, it will sell. I saw one today believe it or not for a lawnmower. It involved a sexy looking woman in a tight fitting red dress that was laying on the newly cut grass and running her hand over it suggestively...saying..."smooth".

Young women and a few older ones too are having one baby after another out of wedlock and don't seem the slightest bit concerned. Condoms come in colors and textures (and some flavors) to suit any whim. Sex toys are a multi billion dollar industry. Doesn't this point to a society that is filled with sex for the fun of it?

As far as sex being a deadly sin....I would say that the reason for that statement is because the misuse of sex (lust) is detrimental to society as a whole. Diseases such as AIDS, PID, Genital Herpes etc (all incurable by the way) are running rampant throughout the world. Millions of children are growing up in fatherless homes. I am a prison guard and I recall one inmate bragging about the fact that he had 21 children on the outside. (He was only 24 years old) Many women don't even know who the father of some of their children are because they have had multiple sexual relationship during the possible fertile time for that particular child.

I am not a prude. I know that sex is meant to be a wonderful thing between people who love one another. That is the way God intended it to be. But lust (sex for fun) is damaging our society to the point where we will never recover from it. If you think it is bad now...just wait until this newest generation grows up.

Answer 2

As a moral term, lust implies a sexual desire for its own sake, an erotic arousal and wish, or intense physical or sexual attraction or craving. It is a sin in some religions such as Christianity when it is an excess or inappropriately directed sexual desire (e.g., non-procreative, unsanctioned, or egocentric sexual desire), and is one of the seven deadly sins, as a sin of excess. The Greek word which translates as lust is epithimia (επιθυμια), which also is translated into English as "to covet".
So, a lustful society has been created by 'mankind' - by writers of religious books, and they have determined what is lustful or not. I believe rather than a lustful society, we have been turned into celebrity adoring fools, which is far more dangerous than lust. We have become all consuming consumers, which is destroying the very fabric of any society - again far more lethal than lust.
Lust is in the mind, it is desire, but in the hands and minds of the ignorant, the stupid, the fanatic, the zealot, the sociopathic - then LUST can be made to be a terrible thing.

Answer 3

Lust is a deadly sin because it is the sin of flesh. It leads to premarital sex, masturbation, orgies, homosexual sex, adultery, doing or watching pornography, etc. When you lust after someone you 'go for it' and do sexual acts that are forbidden. It's not the same as admiring the opposite sex, as if you see a beautiful woman across the room and make eye contact and just notice. Or maybe walk over and start talking to get to know her. Lust means you see her and her breasts and you picture her naked and you go over to her to take her home to have sex with her.

We definitely live in a lustful society. We have access to porn in magazines & on the internet so easily. They aren't secured from minors either. A children just has to click that they are 18 or older and 'bam' they have porn in front of them. We see sex on TV, there are sexy TV commercials, sexy magazine ads, clothes that are for 12 yr old girls that are mini skirts and tops that show their mid-section. When a young girl wears sexy clothes, boys are going to look and hormones turn on. That's why kids are having sex at a younger age nowaday than they were 50 yrs ago. I can't watch any decent sitcom with my son that has no sexual induendos in them. Sex is every where. Like there's nothing else to do or talk about!

Answer 4

1 James 1:14-15 But each one is temped when he is carried away and enticed by his own lust. But when lust has concieved, it gives birth to sin; and when sin is accomplished, it brings forth death. NASB I believe that we trult live in a lustful society, it's all around us. It's on the T.V. the radio, bilboards by the road. Magazines we read. What we have to do is resist these lustful thoughts lest they take control of our body and we give in to them.

Answer 5

The Reverend Red... whatever his nick is, is incorrect. Lust is not just a thought and lust does NOT keep the species going. Reproduction keeps the species going, lust kills it.

Lust is defined as "sinful longing; the inward sin which leads to the falling away from God (Rom. 1:21). "Lust, the origin of sin, has its place in the heart, not of necessity, but because it is the centre of all moral forces and impulses and of spiritual activity." In Mark 4:19 "lusts" are objects of desire." (Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary)

Lust is an intense desire, not just regular desires of the flesh to procreate, eat, exercise.

Answer 6

You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his manservant, or his maidservant, or his ox, or his ***, or anything that is your neighbor's.299

Every one who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.300

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St. John distinguishes three kinds of covetousness or concupiscence: lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes, and pride of life.301 In the Catholic catechetical tradition, the ninth commandment forbids carnal concupiscence; the tenth forbids coveting another's goods.

For more information about this topic go to:
http://www.usccb.org/catechism
and look for paragraphs 2514 ff
Peace!

Answer 7

i think we live in a lustful society with no more love and/or respect,y do u think there's a high rate of rape.

Answer 8

Lust is related to thought and desire, nothing more.

Thought, a sin? Prepostorous and absurd, at best.

There's nothing wrong with lust... it's how we keep the species going. ;-)