“Are you saying that a young man who turns his head with lust at a young girl, who then regains his composure and asks the young girl for a date is guilty of adultery? Do you think Jesus meant that? “
No, I hardly think that being attracted to someone is a sin.
To sit and indulge in serious sexual thoughts in an intense manner is, I think, when focused on a particular person. That is what the purpose of porn is so that’s why I think it is a sin to utilize it.
Again, I want to stress that I see your good intentions, Persevero.
But don’t you see that you are interpreting the Bible to fit what you think it should mean - ie. your personal morality, with all its flaws, with all its biases that the world has injected into it, has become the judge of what the Bible means?
I’ve shown that the usual interpretation is absurd, and you’ve agreed that there is no way that Jesus meant to condemn a young man who momentarily has lust for a young girl, with adultery. So you’ve personally added the stipluation “serious and intense”.
Your honesty has rightly led you to add “I think”, because of course no such distinction is made in the Bible.
So instead of such inventions, is it not much more reasonable to assume the literal interpretation, but that since adultery was the subject, the natural implication is that one or both of the participants are married?
I’m not talking about porn - which doubtless is spiritually and mentally unhealthy. I’m talking specifically about that statement by Jesus, which I have thought considerably about.