Oldemandalton wrote: ↑March 15th, 2022, 6:19 pm
spiritMan wrote: ↑March 15th, 2022, 3:24 pm
We are getting somewhere here-I think.
I can look at a painting and think it's pretty too.
I can also recognize that my daughters are pretty without lust too.
This is just called recognizing the beauty in the world.
So if I have it correct.
According to you, ANY man who says Client Eastwood, Brad Pitt, or (insert some other male actor) in his prime was/is a handsome man is same-sex attracted?
According to you, ANY woman who says Scarlett Johansson, Charlize Theron, or (insert some other male actor) in her prime was/is a pretty woman is same-sex attracted?
Is that what you are claiming?
No, that is not same sex attraction.
Same sex attraction refers to sexual feelings, not necessarily lust, for someone of your own sex. It can also mean to be physically and emotionally close to others of you own sex as much or more so than the opposite sex.
The reverse is also true. Opposite sex attraction are sexual feelings, not necessarily lust, for someone of the opposite sex. It can also mean to be physically and emotionally close to others of the opposite sex.
Lust does not have to factor in unless you let it.
And again, yes lust is a sin.
What is lust?
Lust = lŭst, noun:
1. Intense sexual desire.
2. An overwhelming desire or craving.
3. Intense eagerness or enthusiasm.
Lust is not attraction.
hate to always disagree with you friend, but, you're wrong, as usual.
simply put
You cannot use the word "attraction" for the same sex
and have it mean something that is not wrong.
When using the word "attraction" for people,
the word "attraction, has to be used, and what is
only between a man, and a woman.
When a righteous man and woman of God is looking
for an eternal companion to be married to in the temple,
they will have an attraction for each other.
God made man and woman to be together.
they have a natural attraction to one another.
God made this natural attraction for each other so a man
and a woman would come together and fulfill God's plan.
"Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth"
You can not say the same thing - a man for another man.
When two guys are friends, you really wouldn't use the word
attraction, and say that "I'm attracted to him" would you.
but just friendship, is not what we're really talking about here is it.
We are talking about a man having a physical attraction for another man - and that, is simply WRONG,
no matter how you want to twist and justify it.
"What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder."
Matthew 19
"4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh.
What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder."
Have you ever thought - why ? did Jesus make the distinction
between what the people thought was lust, and what it REALLY IS.
"Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery"
the people thought that "adultery", was something that you actually
had to act on, and do.
but Jesus said:
" But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart."
it all starts in the mind, and your hearts desire.
Proverbs 23
"7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: "
"We will be judged according to our thoughts, words, deeds, and the desires of our hearts " (see Alma 12:14; 5:15; 41:3–6; D&C 137:9; Matthew 12:36–37; Revelation 20:12–14).
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what are some words that describe lust
and these other words ?
here I'll let google answer that for ya.
lust -
craving, desire, longing, sensuality.
"be consumed with desire for, find sexually attractive"
"very strong sexual desire"
attraction -
allure, appeal, attractiveness, desirability, interest, bait.
"ability to draw attention; something that draws attention"
"the action or power of evoking interest, pleasure, or liking for someone"
desire -
attraction, yearning, appetite, lust, craving, lasciviousness.
"want, longing"