What, exactly, is lust?

[Jaker]

Can it be just a slight physical attraction to someone? Is it falling in "love" with someone solely because of physical appearance? Is it something completely different?

:confused

[walker]

Mark 4:19

[coffeehubby]

You can appreciate beauty in someone without it being lust. But "falling in love" with someone based on physical appearances alone is rather....lame and dangerous as well.

Marriage involves all the senses, including hearing!
A person might end up having to put up with hearing some rather unpleasant things like nagging and arguements if they marry just for a body that's sure to go to pot someday!

[joy4Him2day]

I think lust is not just sexual. I think it is an insatiable desire....something that is not satisfied to the point of pining, and unhappiness. I think Israel lusted after the leeks and garlic in Egypt.......
I have to look at it more though....this is just my first reaction......

perhaps, when you are not satisfied with what God has provided, your longing after more/or different could be considered lust.......

therefore, could contentment and lust be opposites?

[Singlesis]

Love = Giving
Lust = Taking
:nod

[Kyrie Eleison]

To me, lust is coveting. Eve was in paradise, yet the devil tempted her with the promise of something more , as if she needed more than what God had given her! Adam followed suit, wanting that which the devil tempted them with, being like God. We're all like that. We can lust after a person, a thing, and in just always wanting more, more, more. Lust is wanting to whore after the appetites of the flesh, instead of being satisfied that God gives us all we need, all that is truly good for us.