It was my husband's view that got me thinking this way in the first place. He thought it was too full of religious platitudes and made a person feel guilty when perhaps they shouldn't. I relooked it over with that view and thought he was probably right. Hey, I'm not a man. It's hard for me to say.
I definitely can see where dad was coming from on the prescriptive side of things. But the descriptive diagnosis in these particular books is pretty accurate IMO.
I'm not sure how plain we can speak on this forum, but the primary area of guilt that most protest in the book is the controversial issue of self-pleasure. The book most definitely takes a pretty rigid stance on it and that usually stirs much discussion.
The book got me thinking (I read almost 10 years ago) about bad habits I had too, and habits that were harming me in the long run. RW said the extended glance is not problematic except for of it's inconvenience to his wife. I tend to think, for me, that's a bad habit feeding a monster appetite that selfishly takes in images without discipline, however and whenever it pleases.
It was my husband's view that got me thinking this way in the first place. He thought it was too full of religious platitudes and made a person feel guilty when perhaps they shouldn't. I relooked it over with that view and thought he was probably right. Hey, I'm not a man. It's hard for me to say.
Well, I was trying to log out. LOL!
This is where I am not sure of which end of the spectrum we are looking at.
One, we have the bible that is very firm about what God wants from us. Our example in this thread is referring to Job 31:1.
Adam Clarke said this: I am therefore bound not to look upon any thing with a delighted or covetous eye, by which my conscience may be defiled, or my God dishonored.
Are we allowing society to shape us in some ways that we think we are too rigid and we need to loosen up a little? Society and the Bible look at things from totally opposite viewpoints, IMO.
I definitely can see where dad was coming from on the prescriptive side of things. But the descriptive diagnosis in these particular books is pretty accurate IMO.
I'm not sure how plain we can speak on this forum, but the primary area of guilt that most protest in the book is the controversial issue of self-pleasure. The book most definitely takes a pretty rigid stance on it and that usually stirs much discussion.
The book got me thinking (I read almost 10 years ago) about bad habits I had too, and habits that were harming me in the long run. RW said the extended glance is not problematic except for of it's inconvenience to his wife. I tend to think, for me, that's a bad habit feeding a monster appetite that selfishly takes in images without discipline, however and whenever it pleases.
I think people should be free to draw their own lines on these things and not be told things in religious disguise. The Bible is unclear.
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