Mac Williams’s Reviews > The Lust of the Flesh: Thinking Biblically About "Sexual Orientation," Attraction, and Temptation > Status Update

“Jesus’s teaching on adultery of the heart teaches us that evil desire, the lust of the flesh, is sin.”

“God has forbidden same-sex attraction by creating opposite-sex attraction in the pre-fall garden of Eden when He made Eve for Adam and not another Adam for Adam.”

“Recognizing an evil desire within us is not just a temptation as some say. The beginning of the lust of the flesh is sin, for if it’s a sin to do evil, it’s a sin to desire evil.”