Also, Jesus was saying that looking upon a woman lustfully is a sin because it shows *only* sexual desire, something that Yahweh does not approve of.
So what you are now telling me is that god is angry that lust comes before love? I'm sorry, how exactly does 'love' come into play when you're staring at a sexy woman across the room? At this moment in time 'love' is non-existant, lust is the only issue.
So tell me again: why does one burn for looking at a woman lustfully as jesus stated?
but I wouldn't trust that book at term of accurate explination as to the origion of man.
I always get enjoyment in seeing a theist tell me in his own words that the very book he believes in is actually all nonsense, not to be trusted, just a story. Tell me because I am curious.. how exactly do you choose which parts to trust and which not to?
Perhaps Earth was meant to be God's garden and when humans started to sin it pissed Yahweh off?
Ah, humans ruined god's master plan. Is he incompetent?
Um, aside from looking at women, those aren't sins, Jesus dispelled that when He stated that nothing from the outside can make you unholy, only that from the inside, from a man's heart can make him unholy.
If that's the case we have several choices:
1) god was joking when he said they were sins
2) god that doesn't change his mind, changed his mind
3) god was lying
4) jesus - who stated that all the laws were to be obeyed and anyone that didn't or taught others not to would suffer - was lying.
5) jesus - who stated that all the laws were to be obeyed and anyone that didn't or taught others not to would suffer - was joking.
6) The pair of them were just plain incompetent.
Take your pick.
Leading a happy life and living in the light of God.
What "light" is that then? You mean the sun?
This would include being kind to others who do not deserve it
The problem with such a thing is that it inevitably leads them to deserve it even less. god is well aware of this apparently which is why he invented hell.
Lust is an intense sexual desire, and taken with the quote, Jesus is saying it is wrong to look upon a woman with only sex in mind.
Why? It is essential to the continuation of the species and that is apparently of utmost importance to god. It is also not a choice, one can't help it.
Wait, why would the majority of the people burn in hell? And you do realise its not forever right?
I have yet to meet one person in existence that hasn't looked at another in lust, hasn't sinned, hasn't sinned in his heart. As a result they are all destined to burn.
Furthermore, where does it say burning isn't forever?
Again, I don't really take Genesis as the true story of creation.
So we can pick and choose which of god's words we're going to believe and which we're not? That's the recommendation from a theist?