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Lust - You've been misled and it bothers me

I watch Christians (mostly male) torture themselves over lust. I think it is fair to say that most Christians have been misled about what kind of lust that Jesus was talking about. Here it is in a nutshell.

The word almost always translated as “lust” in Matthew 5:28 is the Greek ἐπιθυμέω (epithumeō). In every other place in the New Testament it’s translated as “covet” or “desire” (sometimes even positively), and in the Septuagint (the Greek Old Testament that Jesus and the apostles quoted) it’s the exact word used for “You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife” (Exodus 20:17). So the context is clearly coveting → mentally violating the Seventh Commandment by fantasizing about adultery with a married woman.

Jesus was intensifying the Torah’s command against adultery, not issuing a blanket condemnation of sexual desire or attraction. The early Church Fathers (Augustine especially) later universalized it into “any sexual thought outside of procreative marital sex = mortal sin,” and that sex-negative overlay got baked into Western Christianity (and then influenced some Jewish and Muslim interpretations too). But Jesus didn't say that at all.

So yes: noticing an attractive single woman and feeling turned on? Perfectly normal, healthy, and morally neutral.

Mentally undressing your friend’s wife and cultivating the fantasy? That’s the “adultery in the heart” Jesus was talking about.

Other later church figures widened the topic to saying that all lust is bad. But that's not at all what Jesus said. I feel bad hearing Christian males feeling guilty for no good reason.

Can anyone relate to this?
Your statement is correct and has been presented similarly earlier on this forum as well by others - but not everyone agrees to it. Interpreting Yeshua's statement in Matthew 5:28 should be done in the context of what the definition of adultery was in those days according to Torah and given Yeshua is warning a thought/mind-set is preceding actual physical sin. Indeed an expansion on Exodus 20:17.

Coveting someone else's possessions may lead to actual theft, adultery, murder, etc. I agree to your analysis - it's perfectly logical given the overall message of the Sermon on the mount.

Noticing the beauty of a unmarried woman by a man is not inherently sinful - it's simply nature and what may lead to a marriage proposal. But please guard or avert your eyes in the case of a married woman - as otherwise you're setting yourself up for physical sin later on.
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Now does everyone understand why the "right to refuse illegal orders" video was made?

The White House on Monday confirmed a second strike in September had killed wounded civilians after the first effort failed, and put responsibility largely on the naval commander leading the mission.
Why is this such a big deal? American police kill people all the time. The person issuing the order may have felt threatened.
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"Don't Give up the Ship"

When they hit the open seas with a boat load of illegal drugs. They knew the risks and chose to take it. Try some concern for those in this nation affected by those illegal drugs.

Was Trump expressing concern when he pardoned this man?

Juan Orlando Hernández, Former President of Honduras, Sentenced to 45 Years in Prison for Conspiring to Distribute More Than 400 Tons of Cocaine and Related Firearms Offenses​



Don't embarass yourself further pretending that Donald J Trump cares one bit about those affected by illegal drugs.
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Now does everyone understand why the "right to refuse illegal orders" video was made?

Have the footage? Or any evidence whatsoever that any accusations actually occured?

As you well know, the Pete Hegseth has not released the video or any other information.
However, when the commanding officer who, according to the White House, was "authorized" to carry out the order, testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee, we will have some answers.
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Lust - You've been misled and it bothers me

I watch Christians (mostly male) torture themselves over lust. I think it is fair to say that most Christians have been misled about what kind of lust that Jesus was talking about. Here it is in a nutshell.

The word almost always translated as “lust” in Matthew 5:28 is the Greek ἐπιθυμέω (epithumeō). In every other place in the New Testament it’s translated as “covet” or “desire” (sometimes even positively), and in the Septuagint (the Greek Old Testament that Jesus and the apostles quoted) it’s the exact word used for “You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife” (Exodus 20:17). So the context is clearly coveting → mentally violating the Seventh Commandment by fantasizing about adultery with a married woman.

Jesus was intensifying the Torah’s command against adultery, not issuing a blanket condemnation of sexual desire or attraction. The early Church Fathers (Augustine especially) later universalized it into “any sexual thought outside of procreative marital sex = mortal sin,” and that sex-negative overlay got baked into Western Christianity (and then influenced some Jewish and Muslim interpretations too). But Jesus didn't say that at all.

So yes: noticing an attractive single woman and feeling turned on? Perfectly normal, healthy, and morally neutral.

Mentally undressing your friend’s wife and cultivating the fantasy? That’s the “adultery in the heart” Jesus was talking about.

Other later church figures widened the topic to saying that all lust is bad. But that's not at all what Jesus said. I feel bad hearing Christian males feeling guilty for no good reason.

Can anyone relate to this?
Men shouldn't condemn themselves, women are equally as lustful towards men.
Thanks for sharing.
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"Don't Give up the Ship"

Not everyone agrees with you. In combat when a target is hit and some are missed unless they come out with white flags mop up is usually done.

That is flat out wrong.

“I can’t imagine anyone, no matter what the circumstance, believing it is appropriate to kill people who are clinging to a boat in the water,” said Michael Schmitt, a former Air Force lawyer and professor emeritus at the U.S. Naval War College. “That is clearly unlawful.”

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Jude, and 1 Enoch

I can explain pretty much every single prophecy in the bible but it takes a long time so I will post an important one here
Jude quotes Enoch 7th from Adam about the Romans destroying Jerusalem 70 AD, and killing the people that killed Jesus, and quotes 1 Enoch 1:1-9. Enoch says it is a prophecy for a remote generation because he is writing pre flood about an event thousands of years into the future. He says people will be in tribulation like Jesus said 70 AD would be great tribulation. Enoch says God will come over MT Sinai because Jerusalem is metaphorically called MT Sinai (Galatians 4 25) first century AD, and Jesus told the apostles he was coming back in their lifetime. Jesus came back 70 AD like all the prophecies said, all the Israelites rose from the dead, the faithful ones got raptured same with some of the living pre destined elect remnant of the lost sheep of the house of Israel which was the 144 000 in Rev 7 all saved via belief in Jesus by 70 AD. Rev 1-12 happened 70 AD but Rev 13-22 is future. Gospel of Nicodemus inspired apocrypha for the wise only (like 1 Enoch is) has more info on people that raised from the dead the day Jesus died. Also some of the other acts Pilate has more info on the event too.
First, I want to address Judes letter and his reference from Enoch. Most likely this was directed to the very false teachers he was speaking about. These teachers were twisting grace into a license for immorality, but to defend their actions and teachings, they probably relied on ancient, non-canonical texts like the Book of Enoch, which they treated as having deep, secret knowledge. Jude's brilliant strategy was to turn their own authority against them: he selected Enoch's fiercest prophecy—that the Lord is coming in judgment—to serve as an undeniable, self-condemning verdict against their wicked deeds. Jude used a revered text from their own circle to deliver a final, authoritative punch, proving there is no escape from God’s justice for their ungodly actions.
Second, a full Preterist view, especially the hyper view you are describing in your post, is highly questionable at best and directly counters scripture at worse.
The early Church Fathers, like Eusebius and Epiphanius, preserve a strong tradition that the Christians in Jerusalem, warned by a divine revelation, fled the city to the town of Pella in Perea before the Roman siege in A.D. 70. Christians were absent from the siege and its destruction, demonstrating that A.D. 70 was a local, temporal judgment, not the promised universal, bodily resurrection and Second Coming.
If Christ's Second Coming, resurrection of the dead, and final judgment were fully realized in 70 AD, the gospel would be terminated, rendering the basis for all current Christian faith nullified.
Think about it.
Be blessed.
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"Don't Give up the Ship"

I'm talking about the "double tap" to finish off survivors. For the military that is flat-out unlawful.
If it takes three “taps” to sink the boat, go for it. Stopping the drugs is the goal, right! All of the hoop la is just about hating Trump. Who shows outrage at the thousands killed by the drugs or the rapes murders and human trafficking by the cartels? This phony concern for drug runners is quite amazing.
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Lust - You've been misled and it bothers me

I watch Christians (mostly male) torture themselves over lust. I think it is fair to say that most Christians have been misled about what kind of lust that Jesus was talking about. Here it is in a nutshell.

The word almost always translated as “lust” in Matthew 5:28 is the Greek ἐπιθυμέω (epithumeō). In every other place in the New Testament it’s translated as “covet” or “desire” (sometimes even positively), and in the Septuagint (the Greek Old Testament that Jesus and the apostles quoted) it’s the exact word used for “You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife” (Exodus 20:17). So the context is clearly coveting → mentally violating the Seventh Commandment by fantasizing about adultery with a married woman.

Jesus was intensifying the Torah’s command against adultery, not issuing a blanket condemnation of sexual desire or attraction. The early Church Fathers (Augustine especially) later universalized it into “any sexual thought outside of procreative marital sex = mortal sin,” and that sex-negative overlay got baked into Western Christianity (and then influenced some Jewish and Muslim interpretations too). But Jesus didn't say that at all.

So yes: noticing an attractive single woman and feeling turned on? Perfectly normal, healthy, and morally neutral.

Mentally undressing your friend’s wife and cultivating the fantasy? That’s the “adultery in the heart” Jesus was talking about.

Other later church figures widened the topic to saying that all lust is bad. But that's not at all what Jesus said. I feel bad hearing Christian males feeling guilty for no good reason.

Can anyone relate to this?

"Don't Give up the Ship"

So murdering them in cold blood is OK? Got it. This is a Christian forum, after all, so it is good to know the Christian position on the matter. Thanks.
Acts of war are not murder in cold blood. The drug runners are the murders. This is a Christian forum but we still see support for abortion, transgender ideology, open rebellion in the streets, attempted and actual murder of conservative leaders. So if some want express sympathy for narco terrorist why be surprised!
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Revelation 13 mark of the beast is the hexagram.

Chat GPT would not format the end part of this because it said it is untrue lol.
So here it is in my writing

Revelation 13:18 18 Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666.

1 Kings 4:29-5:12 29 And God gave Solomon wisdom and exceedingly great understanding, and largeness of heart like the sand on the seashore. 30 Thus Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the men of the East and all the wisdom of Egypt. 31 For he was wiser than all men—than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol; and his fame was in all the surrounding nations. 32 He spoke three thousand proverbs, and his songs were one thousand and five. 33 Also he spoke of trees, from the cedar tree of Lebanon even to the hyssop that springs out of the wall; he spoke also of animals, of birds, of creeping things, and of fish. 34 And men of all nations, from all the kings of the earth who had heard of his wisdom, came to hear the wisdom of Solomon.

1 Kings 10:14 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold,

2 Chronicles 9:13 The weight of the gold that Solomon received yearly was 666 talents

1 Kings 10:20 Twelve lions stood on the six steps, one at either end of each step. Nothing like it had ever been made for any other kingdom. 12 lions total. 6 lions on one side, 6 steps in the middle, 6 lions on the other side.
The author of Revelation is saying the first beast in Revelation 13 will be like king Solomon. Solomon ruled in Palestine/Israel from physical Jerusalem in the 900s BC. There are prophecies to David in the old testament that he would have a son, build a house in Gods name, and rule forever. David's son Solomon built the first house of God / temple, but he didn't rule forever. This was fully realised in Jesus who built the new covenant church the house of God the temple, and rules forever in the new Jerusalem. Revelation 22 16 “I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you[a] this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star.” Here Jesus combines that prophecy to David along with "A star will come from Jacob" from Numbers 24:17", and says it was about him. Also he is saying he existed before David "before Abraham was I am', "in the beginning was the word" etc. Jesus said "behold one greater than Solomon is here" about himself. He was saying Solomon was the greatest king in the old testament but I am a greater king. Also Isaiah 11:1), which states that a shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse, and a Branch will bear fruit from his roots.

Solomon was the "star of David" in the old testament. In the NT some of the apostles said to Jesus when will you restore the kingdom to Israel? Meaning they wanted a country like it was back in Solomon's time when ancient Israel was at its peak politically, militarily, economically, and had the most power over other nations. Jesus reply was the day of Pentecost. Some people also said to Jesus when you come into your kingdom let us sit on your right hand, and left hand. In their mind they meant when you become political king on this earth let us have high important positions with you. Jesus said you don't know what you are asking aka do you really want to be tortured, and then killed on my left, and right side on a cross ? Some people tried to make Jesus king politically but he sneaked away. So the first century AD Jews/Judeans had a very political mindset about who their messiah was going to be. In Ezekiel 33:24 the Israelite think they own the land of Canaan “Son of man, the people living in those ruins in the land of Israel are saying, ‘Abraham was only one man, yet he possessed the land. But we are many; surely the land has been given to us as our possession. God then says he will kill them due to their sin. The promise to Abraham about seed, and the land was made to Jesus Galatians reveals. The parable of the tenants in Mathew 21 summarises the old covenant. End part: 38 “But when the tenants saw the son, they said to each other, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and take his inheritance.’ 39 So they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. 40 “Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?” 41 “He will bring those wretches to a wretched end,” they replied, “and he will rent the vineyard to other tenants, who will give him his share of the crop at harvest time.” 42 Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: “‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; the Lord has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes’[h]? 43 “Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit. 44 Anyone who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; anyone on whom it falls will be crushed.” 45 When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard Jesus’ parables, they knew he was talking about them. 46 They looked for a way to arrest him, but they were afraid of the crowd because the people held that he was a prophet. The OT Jews at Jesus time saw Jesus was heir to the land of Canaan so killed him thinking they could steal the land for themselves. The kingdom of God was taken

from them, and was given to the world via faith in Jesus instead of being centered around a temple in physical Jerusalem with Levite priests etc. God brought those wretches to a wretched end in 70 AD when he used the Romans to destroy the city of Jerusalem, the temple, and kill the people that killed Jesus. God himself evicted the synagogue of satan (SOS) from Palestine in 70 AD now since 1948 AD the SOS is back on the land building their Revelation 13 kingdom. The hexagram is called the star of David due to the SOS not believing in Jesus, and applying the messianic concepts from the old testament to their political king messiah. In their religious texts (Maimonides Misnheh Torah) their messiah builds a temple, rules from physical Jerusalem, is a political genius (all like Solomon), and beheads anyone that doesn't worship him (not like Solomon but same as Rev 13 anyone who won't worship the beast is killed). The hexagram is also called the star of Solomon. The hexagram is the mark of the beast. Christians are Jews, and the Israel of God Romans 2 28 29 Galatians 6 16. The symbol for Jesus the biblical star of David is the cross but the symbol for the synagogue of satans messiah is the hexagram hence the name star of David they use for it.


The Jewish Utopia Michael Higger The aim of this work is to present, in a comprehensive way, the traditional Jewish conception of the ideal life for individuals, as well as for nations. The problems taken up in the book are discussed, not from a theological viewpoint, but rather from that of the prophecies of the prophets as interpreted by the rabbis. The doctrines concerning God, Torah, Israel, Messiah, the future world and so forth, are, therefore, referred to, only where they are directly related to the subject of an ideal life in the ideal era to come. For my main problem is to reconstruct an ideal social life on earth as pictured by the rabbis of old. To understand the rabbinic conception of an ideal world it will help us if we imagine a hand passing from land to land, from country to country, from the Persian Gulf to the Atlantic Ocean, and from the Indian Ocean to the North Pole, marking “ righteous ” or “ wicked ” on the forehead of each one of the sixteen hundred million inhabitants of our earthly globe. We should then be on the right road toward, solving the major problems that burden so heavily the shoulders of suffering humanity. For mankind should be divided into two, and only two, distinct and unmistakable groups, namely, righteous and wicked. To the righteous would belong all that which God’s wonderful world is offering ; to the wicked would belong nothing. In the future, the words of Isaiah, in the language of the rabbis, will be fulfilled: Behold, My servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry ; behold, My servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty ; behold, My servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed.** This is the force of the prophecy of Malachi, when he said: Then shall ye again discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not. Rev 13 16 It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, 17 so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name. Maimonides laws of kings and their wars. 5 It has already been explained that Noachides are always executed by decapitation except in cases when one engages in relations with the wife of a Jew or a consecrated maiden. In the latter instance, he is stoned to death. A Noachide who transgresses these seven commands shall be executed by decapitation.

A Noachide is executed on the basis of the testimony of one witness and the verdict of a single judge. No warning is required. Relatives may serve as witnesses. However, a woman may not serve as a witness or a judge for them. Revelation 13 15 The second beast was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed. Rev 20 4 And I saw the souls of them that had been beheaded for the witness of Jesus and for the Word of God, and who had not worshiped the beast, nor his image, nor had received his mark upon their foreheads or on their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. Login to view embedded media from 5:35 on in that video the synagogue of satan explain what has to happen to Christians when they have a bet din aka when their messiah comes, and they have a central ruling sanhedrin, and enough power over the nations, and legal system to do what they want. Noahide is a concept from the leaven of the pharisees/oral torah/ traditions of the elders/ talmud etc not the bible. It means someone that denies Jesus, and all other religions, and submits to them

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