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Originally Posted by Levin
Here's a question: do you feel a pain of conscience the first time even if you don't believe in the law of chastity? You're a secular teenager in France, and you have sex as a 16-year old. Do you feel spiritual anguish?
Surely the most intense spiritual pain is felt by those who most intensely believe. I don't really care whether it's culturally acquired: point is you believed something, but you acted contrarily, and now you feel the emotional aftershocks of that decision.
But even if you believe, you can get past that initial emotional pain: by doing it over and over. The "past feeling" reference is to the description of Laman and Lemual who no longer recognize the Spirit b/c they are past feeling. The first time someone sins against their conscience, then the pain can be acute. But the more you sin, the less acute the pain, until you no longer feel it anymore.
I suspect that the same is true of sexual sin.
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You're crossing your wires. Being "past feeling" does not immunize against the spiritual consequences of sin.
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