EL CRIMEN DEL PADRE AMARO
Crime of Father Amaro
THE SPIRITUAL CONNECTIONS
By David Bruce, Web Master HollywoodJeus.com

SPIRITUAL CONNECTIONS
ON LUST

Lust, at its height, does not know shame.
--MARQUIS OF HALIFAX (1633–1695)

We use for passions the stuff that has been given to us for happiness.
--JOSEPH JOUBERT (1754–1824)

Lust’s effect is tempest after sun.
--WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564–1616)

You can get a large audience together for a strip-tease act—that is, to watch a girl undress on the stage. Now suppose you came to a country where you could fill a theatre by simply bringing a covered plate on to the stage and then slowly lifting the cover so as to let everyone see, just before the lights went out, that it contained a mutton chop or a bit of bacon, would you not think that in that country something had gone wrong with the appetite for food? And would not anyone who had grown up in a different world think there was something equally queer about the state of the sex instinct among us?
--C. S. LEWIS (1898–1963)

Passion

Passion, or "strong emotion" or "suffering" is not a bad word in the Bible, as some would like to believe. The Death of Christ on the cross is referred to as the "Passion of Christ." In John 3:16 God's love for the world can be viewed as the passion of God. And certainly the Song of Songs is filled with passion between lovers, even though the word is never used.

“Passion” is derived from Latin passio, which in turn is derived from the verb patior, with the root pat.

Here is where the actual word "passion" appears in scripture:

(1) “Suffer,” and in this sense “passion” is used in Acts 1:3, “to whom he also showed himself alive after his passion.” This translation is a paraphrase (Greek: “after he had suffered”). This is the only case in the King James Version and the Revised Version (British and American) where “passion” has this meaning, and it can be so used in modern English only when referring (as here) to the sufferings of Christ (compare “Passion play”).

(2) “Suffering,” when applied to the mind, came to denote the state that is controlled by some emotion, and so “passion” was applied to the emotion itself. This is the meaning of the word in Acts 14:15, “people of like passions,” and Jas 5:17, “a man of like passions.” The Revised Version margin “of like nature” gives the meaning exactly: “men with the same emotions as we.”

(3) “Strong emotion,” and this is the normal force of “passion” in modern English. There are three occurrences: Rom 1:26; Col 3:5; 1 Thess 4:5.

It is used also in Rom 7:5 and in Gal 5:24.

In Col 3:5 only does “passion” stand as an isolated term. The context here perhaps gives the word a slight sexual reference, but this must not be overstressed; the warning probably includes any violent over-emotion that robs a man of his self-control.

PASSION IS NOT SIN.
Like most everything else, it is how we use it. For good or for evil. May God help us understand the difference.

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