{"id":1665,"date":"2015-09-12T12:03:43","date_gmt":"2015-09-12T17:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saphonemeeting.org\/blog\/?p=1665"},"modified":"2015-09-12T19:12:09","modified_gmt":"2015-09-13T00:12:09","slug":"does-lust-discriminate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/saphonemeeting.org\/blog\/does-lust-discriminate\/","title":{"rendered":"Does lust discriminate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Bible, it would appear that way. For example, in the following helpful verse, it appears that lust is limited to men only.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cBut I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.&#8221; \u00a0(Matthew 5:28)<\/p>\n<p>Needles to say, I believe most\u00a0of our historical books and references were written from the standpoint of a man&#8212; male superiority.<\/p>\n<p>Here is another excerpt that Roy K. discusses as a useful technique.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;Learn to give instead of take. This technique worked on lust too. Whenever I&#8217;d catch a likely image in the corner of my eye, instead of obeying the impulse to look and drink, I&#8217;d keep looking straight ahead while praying for that person. It might be a simple, God bless her and give her what she needs. Or, depending on the intensity of the lust stimulus, it might be more fervent: God bless her and make her a blessing&#8221;(SA WB pg. )<\/p>\n<p>So, my conclusion is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Bible, it would appear that way. For example, in the following helpful verse, it appears that lust is limited to men only. \u201cBut I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.&#8221; \u00a0(Matthew 5:28) Needles to say, I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/saphonemeeting.org\/blog\/does-lust-discriminate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Does lust discriminate?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/saphonemeeting.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/saphonemeeting.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/saphonemeeting.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/saphonemeeting.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/saphonemeeting.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1665"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/saphonemeeting.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1668,"href":"http:\/\/saphonemeeting.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665\/revisions\/1668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/saphonemeeting.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/saphonemeeting.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/saphonemeeting.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}