Who Is Responsible for Adultery?
If a husband looks online or through apps for a relationship with another woman is this adultery, even if he has never had physical sex? In Matthew 5:28 Jesus says, “I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.” So how can a pastor counsel a woman, in this situation, that she is equally to be blamed for her husband’s actions and sin if she has not been having sex regularly with him. Where in the world would a pastor get this counsel. The Bible teaches in 1 Corinthians 7:5, “ Do not deprive each other except perhaps by mutual consent for a time, so that you may devote yourself to prayer. Then come again together, so that Satan will not tempt you through lack of self-control." This is not a guilt free license for a man or a woman to have an affair. This verse in the Bible assumes that the couple is spiritually sound and making mutual decisions and mature enough to devote themselves to time of prayer.