If lust is adultery in the heart, then is lust before marriage premarital sex in the heart? If so, do most Christians keep pure minds until marriage?
2007-05-25 05:02:09 · 22 answers · asked by Graciela, RIRS 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Considering only about 2% of people in America wait until marriage to have sex and well over 75% of the country is christian, I think they do have "impure thoughts."
2007-05-25 05:06:44 · answer #1 · answered by Bipolar Bear 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
LOL!! Many struggle with that, but God does deliver you from it. It just sometimes takes time!
that's not easy, but it is something that Christians do. Impure thoughts are not the same as attraction to someone (provided they are not married or in a relationship)... it's active, like fantasizing or looking at porn. Many struggle with this, and I did when I was younger. I was really isolated because of family dysfunction and developed a very complex and consuming fantasy life. I felt God delivered me from this back in college, during the time I was studying spiritual warfare. The Holy Spirit just one day broke the hold it had on me. I had to struggle over the years to break the fantasy habit, but it was no longer a compulsion; God broke that. The fantasy habits pretty much totally faded out in the coming years. It made me live more in reality, it was an amazing freedom. It's hard to describe....
2007-05-25 05:15:50 · answer #2 · answered by peacetimewarror 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sorry you got so many stupid answers, Dear. Let's focus on the truth. I won't say you are in the wrong religion. Is it okay if I say, the right religion would have taught you the truth of the bible and knowing that, you would be able to answer your own question? We are not condemned for our feelings. We are only condemned when we act on them in a way that insults God. However, when we have such feelings, we need to dismiss them as quickly as possible. Please see James 1:14. Remember, plans don't always work out as we like. Satan is a lot smarter than you are. Of course, God is a lot smarter than Satan. Lean on Him when you are tempted. Best wishes.
2016-05-17 11:54:39 · answer #3 · answered by shauna 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
lust and impure thoughts are not one in the same. Lust is a conscientious thought process while impure thoughts are just thoughts. They turn into lust when you entertain those thoughts.
2007-05-25 05:11:06 · answer #4 · answered by oftheway07 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is an old saying, "You can't stop a bird from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair".
Christians, before and after marrigage, have to deal with impure thoughts, the borderline porn pictures and programs that bombard them every day, the pretty girl who walks in fron of you in an immodest outfit, etc. But when those thoughts come, Christians reject them. They do not let them build a nest in their mind. That is way Paul wrote to Timothy, an young pastor whom Paul was mentoring, and told him to "flee youthful lust". The thoughts come, the images are there, the temptations attack, but Christians "flee" from them, refusing to dwell on them.
Christians are allowed to have sexual desires for their spouses. I love it when mine comes to bed in a "slinky". Or when we sit on our laptops, on opposite sides of the living room and send "suggestion" IMs to each other (with the kids/grandkids having no clue what we are doing).
God created sexual desires. In fact his first commandment to Adam and Eve was to have sex regularly ("Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth"). He put in one whole book of the Bible (Song of Solomon) all about sexual intimacy.
But he also knew how destructive it is why misused. That is why he has forbidden its misuse, with laws against fornication (pre-marital sex) and adultry (cheating within a marriage). He was smart enough to know that the sex sins do not begin with a sex action, but rather with a sex though that is allowed to "build a nest" until it results in an action.
That is why Christians have to guard and control their thoughts both before and after marriage.
2007-05-25 05:18:12 · answer #5 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think all of us, Christian or not, have impure or lustful thoughts some time or another.
2007-05-25 05:06:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes we all slip sometimes but lust and premarital sex are not the same
2007-05-25 05:08:47 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
We are all human, and therefore will have these impure thoughts. Having thoughts is one thing, acting upon them is another!
2007-05-25 05:07:58 · answer #8 · answered by 1bagnut 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think in this world of sex every where that they truly can, but they fight the thoughts and they do not act on them and best of all they've accepted Jesus and they are forgiven of their sins.
2007-05-25 05:07:07 · answer #9 · answered by Jeancommunicates 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Who are these people who don't think about sex? And what has it got to do with Christians?
2007-05-25 05:05:11 · answer #10 · answered by verbalise 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋