(November 22, 2021 at 8:31 pm)Belacqua Wrote:(November 22, 2021 at 7:54 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: What about the part about having urges towards a married woman being just as bad as committing adultery? That's emphasis on internal desires and urges... and not just emphasis... equating it with actually behaving in a given way. That verse has always bothered me. Like, you can't control spontaneous urges. Nor should one be faulted for them.
Hmmm... I hadn't thought of this as metaphysical at all. Though it's an interesting psychological and ethical question.
Just to clarify, that particular objection had nothing to do with metaphysics. It was in response to your statement: "Nearly all of what the prophets and the NT urge has to do with how we behave towards one another." Lusting after a married woman was just a counterexample to challenge that statement, as that hardly counts as behavior towards another. It has to do with inner impulses that are largely beyond our control. (At least for us non-Zen Buddhists
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