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Subject: state of mind

Author:
adam

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Date Posted: 16:14:55 04/24/02 Wed

Yeag,

Thanks for making me clarify my position. First of all, I don't consider lust to be an emotion. Someone might want to challenge me on that one, but it seems to me that there is more going on. So what about anger? How do we make sense of the passages "Be angry, but sin not" and "I tell you that even if a man is angry at his brother, he is subject to judgment." Is there a contradiction here?

Was Jesus angry in the temple when he overturned the tax collector's tables? Did he get angry at the Pharisees when he called them a brood of vipers? What about when I get angry when I stub my toe on the sidewalk? Is that sin? Can I be angry at Hitler for the Holocaust?

It seems like anger needs to be unpacked in order to accomodate for these cases. Are there levels to anger? Is some anger bad and some okay? Is anger okay if it is justified? Help me out.

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