Let's get acquainted with the Church Slavonic word"voluptuousness", find out what it means. Many outdated words mislead contemporaries. Lust is the love of man for pleasure. As the Orthodox Church says and writes: the sinful state of the soul.
It is advisable to start a conversation with the fact that a person tends to enjoy, have fun, demand. It is from such actions that lust is born. Simply put, it is a branch of egoism. Why?
We give the first example.Men like girls with curvaceous, but thin and pretty face. He stares at them, chooses his girlfriend suitable. And then he enjoys it, admires.
Let the love of all that is attractive be the second example. The man loves to play interesting games, watch movies, buy delicious cakes and sweets. That is, he enjoys.
As you can see, we mention this verb a second time. And it is no coincidence. Lustfulness - this is the desire for pleasure.
Православная Церковь всегда сластолюбие считала by sin. And not by chance. First of all, man himself chooses the path: heaven or hell. Those who love to enjoy everything that gives life on earth, fall into the underworld and undergo the torment of the demons, which also plunged him into hobbies during his lifetime. What does lust mean? Renunciation of God.
If it were just a fairy tale, there would be noa confession that has been practiced for almost 2,000 years. A person who loves pleasure, especially in fasting days, must repent before the priest and before the image of Jesus Christ in the temple.
We figured out a little what lust is. And now let's take an example from the life of holy people: many of them avoided pleasures in any form. You can even list:
In the lives of the saints can be found infinitemany examples of how the saints lived poor or were beggars. Food was meager and simple, for example, a small piece of bread and a cup of plain water. Pleasure was given to them in this case from God, as a reward for temperance, prayer.
Sinful man, on the contrary, enjoymentI want endlessly. In addition, satisfaction can not be obtained. And the joy in my heart will never be. Lustfulness is a kind of beautiful dish without a bottom. You admire the beautiful sides of the pot, but no good.
Who can not sleep in a new place?As a rule, the one who loves softness, warmth, comfort. A coddled body requires pleasure. Unfortunately, the modern world is designed so that people live in comfort. Advertising is put for the purpose of selling goods, and the evil one (devil) uses human souls through advertising. Church shepherds warn about this, the saints spoke about the temptations of the modern world. But very few who are willing to give up pleasure.
The meaning of the word "voluptuousness" in marriage, especiallyecclesiastical, similar, as in the world without God, of which we spoke above. It turns out that marriage should be entered not for the purpose of pleasure, but for a completely different reason. Matrimony in Orthodoxy is the ability to tolerate the negative sides of a loved one, not to fall apart, not to swear, to be able to give in. And, of course, forgive and love. But let's go back to our topic.
In family life, voluptuousness is pleasure.each other, usually during proximity. Shepherds advise young people not to rush to sign, if they spent very little time together, and just liked each other outwardly. Indeed, in marriage, pleasure may cease sooner or later. Divorces often occur for this reason.
Here we are with you and considered the word "lust".By the way, modern Christians are often confused in obsolete words. At confession, the priest may say: "Sin in lust", while not really understanding the meaning of the word. One must be able to specify, but not describe in detail what a sinner means by voluptuousness, for example:
To be precise, one sin is related to another. Voluptuousness is both egoism, pleasure, and unwillingness to change.
