Emotional affair - Page 3

A_PoMo · #1 07-18-2008, 06:23 PM

So the question is, "What is a biblical definition of adultery?"

I don't think there is a question that if this is happening in a marriage then that marriage is in serious trouble. But is there really adultery going on?

A_PoMo · #2 07-18-2008, 06:32 PM

If a pastor puts his ministry before his marriage and invests himself primarily in his ministry instead of his wife is he an adulterer?

It may seem like I'm comparing apples to oranges here because the ministry is not a person. But isn't the process and end result the same? There is not difference that I can see between detaching yourself from your spouse and investing your emotion and energy into a ministry than doing the same with a another person. It's the same process and has the same result and breaches the same vows.

It would seem then that adultery would more appropriately be limited to physical sexual relations with a person other than your spouse.

rgcraig · #3 07-19-2008, 08:24 AM

No doubt in my mind there are emotional affairs and they are just as dangerous as physical affairs.

jaxfam6 · #4 07-19-2008, 10:32 AM

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Originally Posted by rgcraig

No doubt in my mind there are emotional affairs and they are just as dangerous as physical affairs.

I would say I agree with you. My point is that not all emtional attachments should be classified as affairs. There are emotional attachments that will never go beyond the friendship that is there. There are other cases, as we have seen reported, that go past friendship and become sin.

rgcraig · #5 07-19-2008, 10:37 AM

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Originally Posted by jaxfam6

I would say I agree with you. My point is that not all emtional attachments should be classified as affairs. There are emotional attachments that will never go beyond the friendship that is there. There are other cases, as we have seen reported, that go past friendship and become sin.

And I agree with you.

jaxfam6 · #6 07-19-2008, 10:51 AM

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Originally Posted by rgcraig

And I agree with you.

i suddenly have the warm fuzzies.

someone agrees with me

I think I am going to.........

oh wow two agree

here i g.......

again

gloryseeker · #7 07-19-2008, 03:37 PM

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Originally Posted by jaxfam6

i suddenly have the warm fuzzies.

someone agrees with me

I think I am going to.........

oh wow two agree

here i g.......

again

Don't allow your warm fuzzies to grow into an emotional affair with those who agree with you

A_PoMo · #8 07-19-2008, 03:29 PM

I appreciate all the comments. Good stuff.

So, it seems that nobody here thinks that an emotional affair is adultery. Is that a fair conclusion to draw from the discussion so far?

rgcraig · #9 07-20-2008, 12:06 AM

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Originally Posted by A_PoMo

I appreciate all the comments. Good stuff.

So, it seems that nobody here thinks that an emotional affair is adultery. Is that a fair conclusion to draw from the discussion so far?

I believe it is adultery.

SOUNWORTHY · #10 08-18-2008, 06:45 PM

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Originally Posted by rgcraig

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Re: Emotional affair

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Originally Posted by jaxfam6
I would say I agree with you. My point is that not all emtional attachments should be classified as affairs. There are emotional attachments that will never go beyond the friendship that is there. There are other cases, as we have seen reported, that go past friendship and become sin.

And I agree with you.

And so do I.