Did Jesus really mean it when he said to pluck out my own eye if I've lusted after a woman?
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NOOOO!!!!!\n\nRepent and he will forgive you. He does not want you to do this and died so you can be forgiven. If you will not repent he suggests that plucking out your eye is a better alternative then hell!\n\nLeave the body parts he gave you alone, try to be as good as you can and appologize to God when you slip up.\n\nI hope this question was a joke. God Bless You!!
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You have been admonished.\n\nEze 3:17  Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me. \nEze 3:18  When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand. \nEze 3:19  Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.
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"C'est la paille et la poutre."  Litterally, "It's the speck and the beam."  It comes from Jesus' saying that before taking the speck out of your own eye, you should take the beam out of your own.
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Hi Mathias, think of the terrible price that Jesus paid for your salvation and the agony He endured for you in the garden of olives, think also of the rejection that He endured and still does to win you the grace to live by Christian standards, now if you can do this then surely it is enough to let you know that spilling the seed of life that God gave you is indeed sinful and is not what Jesus would have you do as if it was right.\nthink to of your Angel Guardian who is at your side and has to turn away from you whenever you resort to this, you are like the rest of us, weak so pray for the courage to stop this degrading act
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The same can be asked of a woman, why can't they keep there eye on just one man?...Try putting the shoe on the other foot! If God didn't want us...(meaning both man and woman)...Didn't want us to see the beauty that he created...then he'd never gave us eye's to see with!   If I were a betting man...I'd bet he's caught you looking...a few more times...than he'd liked you to have looked...at other men...!
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I found this quote, from Genesis; I think it is the one that people use to discourage masturbation., judge for yourself.\n\n38:7 And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD slew him.\n38:8 And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother.\n38:9 And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother.  \n38:10 And the thing which he did displeased the LORD: wherefore he slew him also.
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Proverbs 3: 5, 6. \n\ni was at the lowest point in my life 18 years ago. had a serious drug issue & was contimplating suicide when this scripture came to mind. i chanted it all night like a mantra until i fell asleep. \n\nwoke up the next day, looked in the mirror & saw the most beautiful woman i had ever seen in my whole life - me.  i ain't talking about physical aesthetic - no - beyond that. i cried, gave myself a hug & decided that come what may, me & Jah got this.\n\njust sharing this makes me well up...
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Oh yes the Bible is absolutely clear on this topic!  If you do that then God will turn you into a pillar of salt for His spice rack!  But don't worry if you want to be like Lot's daughters and seduce your own father, God will praise you for it!
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Rejoice if you believe you have been discriminated against for your Christian faith.  In Matthew 5:11, Jesus said  Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.\nMatthew 5:44  But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;\n\nAlso in John 15:20  Jesus said "Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also."
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It means that you can find the Lord within yourself, but you have to look.  It is not easy, and it may take years but if you seek him, you will find him.  \n\nSome think the door that is to be opened is the spiritual eye.  Who knows?
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my beautiful eyes, came to me as a gift from God  \n \nthey were placed on a beautiful little girl he sent to me to fill up my empty life\n\nmy daughter!
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It is not an insult to Christians to wonder about the human qualities of Christ as a man. From what you see in the Bible ther is no reason to think he was not straight. The hanging about with men bit was just a reflection of the society he lived in. Having said that he had very liberated views towards women - (Mary and Martha, the adulteress etc). If you don't know what I am talking about - look it up!
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A wise man once said " keep your eyes on Jesus and do the next right thing" . Its not easy but every choice does count. In my experience I have grown closer to God by letting him fight for me: pray about it.
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Awesome! I believe you are diving in deep to the kingdom of GOD. \nWe know that Jesus was crucified so that we would have a way home to the very throne of GOD in Heaven but did you ever think that maybe in addition to that way back home, GOD wanted to be able to break through the sin and rebellion that separates us from him? You ever have a crush on a guy for no reason? You just thought he was awesome and dreamy? Well you are the bride of Christ sister!!! You are very precious to GOD and so am I. So I think he wouldn't mind if our lives were filled with him. His life is filled with us.\nMay GOD richly bless you.
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Counter-Example: \n\nSo if I'm so angry with someone that I feel hate towards them and want to kill them, should I simply go ahead and murder them -- since I've already sinned and wanted them dead in my heart? \n\nOf course not.\n\nLooking at the context of the verse (Matthew 5:28), Jesus was dealing with men (Pharisees) who commonly thought it was okay to look lustfully at a woman as long as he didn't physically touch her. They made a distinction; God doesn't. He doesn't think it's okay to "use" someone internally, while just avoiding the pretense of sin on the outside.\n\nIt's a matter of the heart. God wants a good heart -- good motivations toward other people -- not JUST good external behavior.
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Yes, Jesus said love your enemy because if you only love those that you care for, where is the reward in that? It's impossible to love your enemy on your own, only through God's grace one is able to love their enemy. Since humans have a fallen nature due to original sin, it is in human nature to love only those that love them back, BUT it's in God's will to love those that hate you just as Jesus Christ loves His enemies. We must be more like Jesus Christ. Jesus said, be perfect just as your Father in heaven is perfect.
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If everyone took the bible literally this world would be quite an unpleasant place to be lol.  The phrase "an eye for an eye" has been misinterpreted...if someone gouged your eye out do you really want that person to give you their gouged eye? lol...i hope not lol it just means you have to substitute the loss with some kind of compensation hehe and then feel really bad for gouging someone's eye out in the first place =P