I’m sorry, I appreciate you think that with the best of intent, but I disagree.
I disagree that Luke 10:27/Matthew 22:37/Mark 12:30 is a “summary”. In fact Jesus himself calls it the “first and great”, not anything like “summary”. He says the law and the prophets hangs on it, and the second “Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself”. That doesn’t mean it’s the superclass of all other laws.
I want to be honest and true to the literal Bible, and I see that you do too; I don’t want to be arguing with you. But I think you are assuming something that isn’t there.
The act of adultery is the disgusting act of breaking a marriage covenant by sex with another outside of that covenant. And Jesus is saying if you even thought about that, you are guilty of it. That makes sense. But for him to be saying that if a young single man initially looked at a young single woman with lust, which he later tempered into something more reasonable, that young man is guilty of adultery, I just don’t think that fits the sens of what Jesus is saying. I think that’s man, putting his own fears and loathings into his interpretation.
“But for him to be saying that if a young single man initially looked at a young single woman with lust, which he later tempered into something more reasonable, that young man is guilty of adultery, I just don’t think that fits the sens of what Jesus is saying. I think that’s man, putting his own fears and loathings into his interpretation.”
Ok. How do you interpret what Jesus said in Mathew 5?