all purity” (1 Timothy 5:2). How a counselee thinks about sex issues is critical to his or her purity. There is sufficient biblical support for the principle that simply thinking about a sin in the mind is not sinful. If the mere conceptualization of a sin, even sex or sinful sex, is wrong, then both God and Jesus Christ have committed sin. The Bible is full of examples of sexual sin.1 They are recorded for our edification that we should remember them, be warned, and understand the ugly consequences
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