Please understand the context: who Jesus is and what he plainly states in Matthew 5:27-28. Also please bear in mind He was addressing the (Jewish) multitudes.
Perhaps I was not sufficiently clear. I was trying to get at the changing of moral principles from one religious teaching to another, in this case from Judaism to Christianity. I was using the thinking about lust as an example.
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