Wootah wrote:
Anyway within marriage one cannot commit adultery with their partner. That would be definitionally absurd. It is the place to be lustful.
What do you mean that marriage is the place to be lustful?
You're not supposed to lust after your spouse. In fact, you're only suppose to be having sex for the utilitarian purpose of procreation.
You previously said, "Since Jesus defines adultery as looking at another person lustfully"
Well, if that's the definition of adultery then the relationship between the people involve shouldn't make any difference at all. Lust would still be lust.
Besides, Jesus never claimed to be
defining anything. He was always speaking within the context of how these concepts are commonly understood. Therefore if adultery requires having a relationship with someone who is already committed by vows to someone else, then it would still mean this when Jesus used the term.
The only thing Jesus was attempting to say is that if you are seriously considering this action then in your mind you have already committed the action.
That wouldn't change the definition of the action at all.
So if the people involved are not committed to anyone, then no adultery would have been committed, even in the mind.
You can't aren't adultery if you are considering a perfectly eligible partner. After all, you could marry that partner eventually and then they would become your spouse.
So, IMHO, all you are doing here is attempting to use Jesus as an excuse to create extremism in an attempt to pervert even natural desires between people who are not yet even married.
In fact, this is a huge problem with Christianity in general. People take things that were attributed to Jesus, twist them into extreme perversions and then act like this represents "God's Wishes".
It's no wonder that people find this religion so disgusting when people attempt to use it to pervert every little thing in Jesus' name.
I personally don't believe that Jesus would support your interpretations concerning the rumors that have been told about him in the New Testament.
Whether Jesus was a mere moral man with an opinion like everyone else or a demigod as the myths claim makes no difference. In either case, I don't believe that Jesus was out to pervert every little thing like so many Christian fundamentalists seem to like to believe.
I personally believe the perversion resides solely in their minds, and nowhere else.