Q1. Adultery and Coveting

[Karen11]

On 12/19/2007 at 10:09 PM, Pastor Ralph said:

Q1. (Matthew 5:27-30; Exodus 20:17) What is the point of similarity between adultery and lus+? What is the difference? How does lus+ break the Tenth Commandment?

Adultery and **** are the same, adultery follows ****.

One is the act of doing the other is the act of thinking.

The act of thinking about starts in your head but it hurts the heart.

[MosesSole]

On 12/19/2007 at 10:09 PM, Pastor Ralph said:

Q1. (Matthew 5:27-30; Exodus 20:17) What is the point of similarity between adultery and lus+? What is the difference?  Adultery is sex outside of marriage. **** is the desire for the person that is not your spouse. The difference is that adultery is considered a sin, whereas **** is just the thought while adultery is the act of sex with someone who isn't your spouse.  However Jesus does say that if you **** after someone while married, you are committing adultery in your heart

How does lus+ break the Tenth Commandment? The Tenth Commandment, "thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife" is basically saying don't desire, or take sexual pleasure in someone that isn't your wife.  Lus+, if defined according to Hebrew translation, is the same as covet, and if a man lusted after someone that wasn't his wife, he is essentially breaking the commandment. I imagine that for man, it would be hard to stay in the clear on this one since his natural desires for women would likely create many close calls of coveting women he cannot and should not have. 

 

[Irmela]

1.1 What is the point of similarity between adultery and ****?

The similarity is that both are trying to fulfil a desire to have something that is not yours. Both are "deeds" committed, of the same thing, one physically and one mentally.

1.2 What is the difference?

Adultery is the deed itself and **** can lead to the action. **** is an unhealthy desire for someone or having power over someone. Adultery is fulfilling that dedire.

1.3 How does **** break the 10th commandment?

**** breaks the 10th commandment because it is coveting/wanting/desiring something/someone  that belongs to someone else.

[Niyonka16]

Q1. (Matthew 5:27-30; Exodus 20:17) What is the point of similarity between adultery and ****?

ANSWER: **** and adultery are the same family of sins. But they are different degrees of maturity. **** is the seed, adultery the weed. **** is the root, adultery the fruit. But they have differing degrees of severity.  **** and adultery are qualitatively the same—they are the same sort of sin. **** and adultery are quantitatively different—their degree of severity is exceedingly different. These sins are similar, but Jesus did not say they are the same.

What is the difference between adultery and ****?

ANSWER: If anyone looks upon a woman in order to ****, has already committed adultery with her in his heart. That is an important distinction. I need to point that out because sexual arousal, sexual interest, sexual attraction are essential for the continuation of the human species.

How does **** break the Tenth Commandment?

ANSWER: The one who sees another person (other than his/her spouse) and feels unbidden, unchosen sexual desire arising in his heart, has already committed adultery in his heart. Prohibition of carnal concupiscence (****) The ninth commandment forbids "the interior, mental desire or plan" to do adultery, which is strictly forbidden by the sixth commandment. It's considered sinful when desired or thought lustfully and deliberately with "full knowledge and full consent of the will".

[Lisa Wolf]

Q1. (Matthew 5:27-30; Exodus 20:17) What is the point of similarity between adultery and lus+? What is the difference? How does lus+ break the Tenth Commandment? Adultery and **** both have the same root: sex now.  God created human sexuality and plans for it to be treasured within marriage.  Anything we put higher than God becomes an idol thus breaking God's commandment and His plan for us immediately.