Brother Phil,
I've been contemplating addressing this post of yours.
I cannot totally agree with your assumption that every person that commits adultery is viewing or interested in porn. I would add, though, that any married man that goes from one relationship to another, rather quickly, would be suspect. And that would apply to an unmarried person also.
What I have seen happen is this, as I've been under several pastors that have committed adultery:
Struggles in finances and church which result in struggles in the home. You will assuredly have struggles in the home when the church is going through it.
Someone comes into your life and for a brief time all the voices of "Pressure" walk out the door - for a while. A comforting voice replaces pain and you don't have to think or feel pain for a little while. One thing leads to another and you leave what you know to be true because comfort feels better.
Later you find out it wasn't worth it and then, after tearing up lives, you stay where you are because now you can't fix it or yourself.
Another scenario would be someone that is held down by condemnation. If they can get past that the sin doesn't have the same pull on them. You have to seek the Lord, for yourself, and be released. You have to stop and say, "Today, no more." God will meet you there.
HUH?????
PressingON,
you must have misread my post. I was asking MOW how he could have one rule for dealing with folks, both single and married, where porn was concerned and a different rule for dealing with folks, married or single, who commit acts of fornication or adultery.
I was saying that viewing of PORN is the same as fornication for the single individual and the same as adultery, due to the lust in the heart, for the married individual.
Please revisit my post and see if you still get the idea that I was in any way suggesting that all who commit adultery are also involved in porn.
Did anyone else interpret my post the way Pressing On did? If they did I will request that it be deleted because I surely don't want anyone thinking that aI think that every commission of adultery begins with Porn.
are you saying a person who is addicted to porn, or a "viewer" of porn will have some kind of inappropriate sexual relationship?
Or are you saying that anyone who has a sexual relationship (adultry or fornication) is BECAUSE they are addicted to porn? b/c I would have to disagree with you wholeheartedly.
Affairs and sexual acts before marriage happen for reasons other than porn...
Single folks without God, or who have drifted away from God, get themselves in very real physical situations and make bad choices...
For married folks, I think that if a woman cheats, it's usually b/c she's gotten EMOTIONALLY attached to someone b/c something that was lacking in her relationship with her husband was met by some "friend"....someone who listened to her or was interested in HER - and not necessairly mainfested in a physical way...yk?
I think a man cheats b/c there is breakdown MOSTLY in the physical relationship with his spouse and some woman is in the wrong place at the wrong time....IMO
Married women, IMO, when upset or mad or whatever at their spouse, refrain from physical contact with the husband....Men who have issues with their wives no longer care about the feelings of the wife and so the cycle starts...
Either you folks can't read or I can't write or you are not reading the post I was responding to.
Looking at porn is the same as adultery,the scripture teaches if a husband or wife comitts adultery and don't repent(stop It) you must divorce them.If he commits adultery and you know it,it makes you an adultress.
you must have misread my post. I was asking MOW how he could have one rule for dealing with folks, both single and married, where porn was concerned and a different rule for dealing with folks, married or single, who commit acts of fornication or adultery.
I was saying that viewing of PORN is the same as fornication for the single individual and the same as adultery, due to the lust in the heart, for the married individual.
Please revisit my post and see if you still get the idea that I was in any way suggesting that all who commit adultery are also involved in porn.
Did anyone else interpret my post the way Pressing On did? If they did I will request that it be deleted because I surely don't want anyone thinking that aI think that every commission of adultery begins with Porn.
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