In Reply to: okay posted by lydia on June 18, 2004 at 16:21:32:
Thank you for sharing your thoughts. You post answers some of my questions about "at what point that becomes a sin?"
When reading your answer I wondered if you had in mind married people alone, or all people in general. I am assuming that you were married when that incident happened, I was not, I wasn't even a Christian. But then again, that might have been the reason why I didn't see it coming. There were close calls as married and a Christian later in my life, and you are right, I was able to see it coming. At one point I was able to see its transformation but I was also taken by surprise in another case.
I am still trying to figure out whether it is possible for man and woman to have a platonic relationship without the interference of that "flesh" aspect of humanity we carry. Again I ask:
"Will this be a matter of defining the word "lust"? Or rather separating the spiritual aspect from the purely selfish physical act of intimacy?"
And then, how do we do that? By not developing a friendship with people of the oposite gender? Can men and women be friends at the same level that men can with men or women can with women?
My personal answer has been that it is up to us but if there is always the potential lurking of lust then as a Christian one would have to be always on guard and that will not lead to an honest and sincere two-way friendhip.