Wow: S'pore pastor says girls should cover up to spare men from ‘lustful thoughts’
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Wow: S'pore pastor says girls should cover up to spare men from ‘lustful thoughts’
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To be fair, refrain must apply to both. The men should refrain from the lustful gaze and the women should refrain from displaying their charms.  ![[+]](https://sgtalk.org/mybb/images/collapse_collapsed.png)
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I do agree that while some of such behaviours are unplatable, and probably require additional measures by society to "encourage refrain", the reasons for such measures if required has to make sense. Instead of shaming people and condemning them to hell, it should be awareness and thoughtfulness for others in the society.
The facts of life: we know that men are stimulated through their eyes, their brains are wired to look at female shapes, which is why erotic images have so much impact on them. They just love to ogle the female shapes, curves, her physical equipment. It’s their biology at work. Now there are 2 schools of thought on this topic of sexuality.
The secularistic view: our secular society generally views sexual fantasy and imagery, whether or not it’s accompanied by physical self-stimulation to orgasm, as an accepted and sometimes healthy diversion from the stresses of real life. Sexual fantasy is judged by many to be a harmless release of sexual energy because, technically speaking, a mental act won’t violate anyone or constitute unfaithfulness to a spouse. Thus, a man may see nothing wrong with fantasizing about having a little nookie with another woman other than his wife or with a seductive image on video screen, etc. Other things that are generally considered normative in secular society, meaning that they are fairly common and accepted – though reluctantly by some – in our culture include pornography, illicit affairs and Pros. Libertines are all for giving expression to one’s sexuality. Conversely, abstinence and marital fidelity are often viewed as outdated and prudish. The Christian view: God created us as sexual beings – male and female. Gender is determined at conception, and the entire sexual anatomy is present at birth. God isn’t anti-s.ex. He created s.ex! ‘Everything God created - incl s.ex – is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it’s received with thanksgiving.’ (1 Tim 4:4) The Bible prohibits sexual immorality. Unfaithfulness or sexual sin violates God’s plan for the sanctity of human marriage. When you become sexually involved with someone other than your spouse, whether physically or mentally through lust and fantasy, you shatter God’s design, blemishing the God-designed one man–one woman pair-bonding and breaking the convenant with your spouse. We were created to become one flesh with only one other person. Sexual fantasy may be regarded by many as harmless self-pleasuring. But Christians are to abstain from it because sexual immorality in the mind carries the same weight as sexual immorality in the flesh. We’ve heard that it was said, “Do not commit adultery. But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.” In God’s eyes, an affair in the mind is the same as the real thing. It’s a violation of moral purity. Besides, mental adultery and sexual fantasy depersonalizes s.ex and devalues people. Sexually impure thoughts or deeds are activities that are clearly in opposition to God’s Word, and they will stunt Christians’ spiritual growth. |
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