I would say no. I’m not a fundamentalist and thus don’t interpret every word of the Bible literally. I would not interpret Jesus word’s to mean being angry with someone or feel lust towards them is a crime.
I would understand term ‘judgement’ to mean the ‘final judgement.’ The term ‘subject’ would suggest the outcome of the judgement is unknown.
Jesus use the term ‘in his heart’ referring to our spiritual state in that we should not actively and deliberately foster feelings of anger and lust. He is not suggesting we should control every thought that comes into our heads as that is impossible.
It seems odd that you would be so certain as to what Jesus is “suggesting” or not. It also seems that the INABILITY to control or choose which thoughts to entertain and which not to would be an indicator of some kind of mental or intellectual dysfunction. Why shouldn’t we be able to “control” our own thinking and deliberately “intend” the direction pursued by determining what does “come into our heads?”
In other words, you seem to be claiming that Jesus didn’t actually come to heal or save us from ourselves but was content with leaving us floundering in our intellectual muck. Somehow, I think Jesus was completely able to know and control what entered his own mind. In fact, from his remark about Nathaniel - “Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no guile,” (John 1:47) it is pretty clear that human beings are supposed to know and be in control of our own thinking.
It’s nurturing the thought by dwelling on it.
Doubtful. There is no requirement that to control the line of one’s thinking or what enters one’s mind a person has to “dwell” on particular thoughts. Just the opposite actually. You are in control of the direction of your thinking by actively determining that, not by running from, fixating on or avoiding thoughts. “Dwelling on a thought” in the way you suppose is precisely what a lack of control would look like.
Now, here YOU go derailing your own thread. Are you doing so deliberately or is this intended to be a metaphor to demonstrate that we are “not able to control what comes into our own -]heads/-] threads?”
To bring this back on topic…
Not being able to control one’s thinking is a tangential issue that leads to the gay individual claiming they are incapable of controlling their attractions AND using that dysfunction to justify being permitted to “marry” those to whom they happen to be attracted, i.e., not just excused for their sin, but permitted to indulge it. It is a slippery concession that leads inevitably down the road to Flip Wilson’s “The devil made me do it”
or to hard determinism. Pick your poison.
