Adultery is an unpleasant subject.
The secular world, attempting to assuage its collective conscious, deals with this unpleasant subject by calling it “an affair.”
An “affair,” you see, is trivial, a mere fling. Nothing to see here. Move along.
True Jesus-followers are usually savvy enough to avoid this secular word play and see it for what it is—an attempt to render amoral one of the most destructive relational acts known to man by a linguistic slight of hand. But then they often make a different mistake, a mistake which is equally offensive to the Truth.
That mistake is calling the process that results in infidelity as “falling into adultery.” I suspect they do this to not sound judgmental toward the adulterer. “You see, he didn’t really mean to hurt anyone. He fell into adultery.”
The problem here is that people do not “fall into adultery.” People fall into manholes; they commit adultery. Continue reading “How To Not Commit Adultery”
