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To: annalex; HarleyD; D-fendr

"Lust is a decision."

Job 31:1 "I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?"

Heb. 12:1, "Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,"

In both verses the idea is not to look at another woman if looking is not yet sin but a weight, a weakness that could become sin.


7,005 posted on 01/19/2007 5:54:03 PM PST by blue-duncan
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To: blue-duncan

Yes. Exactly. I think we'd call this avoiding the near occassion of sin.

Drawing boundaries around the actions that lead to the thoughts that lead to the sin.


7,008 posted on 01/19/2007 6:02:37 PM PST by D-fendr
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To: blue-duncan; HarleyD; D-fendr
not to look at another woman if looking is not yet sin but a weight, a weakness that could become sin.

Well said, and thank you for the appropriate quote.

7,081 posted on 01/20/2007 1:44:31 PM PST by annalex
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