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Pornography—Is It Just a Harmless Diversion?Awake!—2002 | July 8
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Sexual fantasies can directly interfere with our worship of God. That is why Paul wrote: “Deaden, therefore, your body members . . . as respects fornication, uncleanness, sexual appetite, hurtful desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.”—Colossians 3:5.
Paul here links sexual appetite with covetousness, which is an inordinate desire for something that one does not have.a Covetousness is a form of idolatry. Why? Because the one coveting puts that desired thing before all else, including God. Pornography stimulates lust for something that one does not possess. “You want somebody else’s sexual life. . . . You can have nothing in your mind but that appetite for what you lack. . . . What we lust for, we worship,” says one religion writer.
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Pornography—Is It Just a Harmless Diversion?Awake!—2002 | July 8
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a Paul was not here talking about normal sexual appetite—the desire to have normal sexual intimacy with one’s marriage mate.
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