Forbidden Fruit...

Peeps...

You're seeing a lot of talk lately about political figures having relationships outside of their marriage. For some that claim piety, the defense will always be "gotcha" journalism. As Ecclesiastes 1:9 stated: "there's no new thing under the sun."

Putting David's business out there:

2 Samuel 11:1 NKJV - It happened in the spring of the year, at the time when kings go out [to battle], that David sent Joab and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the people of Ammon and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem.
2 Samuel 11:2 NKJV - Then it happened one evening that David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king's house. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing, and the woman [was] very beautiful to behold.
2 Samuel 11:3 NKJV - So David sent and inquired about the woman. And [someone] said, "[Is] this not Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?"
2 Samuel 11:4 NKJV - Then David sent messengers, and took her; and she came to him, and he lay with her, for she was cleansed from her impurity; and she returned to her house.
2 Samuel 11:5 NKJV - And the woman conceived; so she sent and told David, and said, "I [am] with child."


In the book: "Temptations Men Face: Straightforward Talk on Power, Money, Affairs, Perfectionism, Insensitivity" (Saltshaker Books Saltshaker Books) [Paperback]," Tom Eisenman analyzed verse one of this chapter of Samuel. It was spring and kings were expected to go to war. It could have been that David "just wasn't feeling it," and Eiseman surmised why he wasn't feeling so conquering and kingly:

David had hit the big 4-0.

Granted, he had everything a king in his position could ever want, but his lack of certitude with his manly vigor made him hit on his best friend's wife! Uriah was so devoted to David, he wouldn't sleep with Bathsheba to cover up the affair and pregnancy (as David had tried to arrange). He was "forced" to kill his friend, then the Prophet Nathan stepped in...and jacked him up! (2 Samuel: 1 - 12)

Pysch Central blogs about the "Forbidden Fruit" hypothesis whereby ironically you basically want what you say you don't want. A concluding paragraph in the article (see link) states:

"Put with the existing research literature on this subject, the researchers suggest that when inattention to attractive alternatives is internally motivated, it leads to positive relationship processes. We have to consciously limit — and want to limit — our looking for attractive alternatives outside of our relationship."

Internal motivation:

Job 31:1 NKJV - "I have made a covenant [bĕriyth - alliance, pledge between God and man] with my eyes; Why then should I look upon a young woman?
Job 31:2 NKJV - For what [is] the allotment of God from above, And the inheritance of the Almighty from on high?
Job 31:3 NKJV - [Is] it not destruction for the wicked, And disaster for the workers of iniquity?
Job 31:4 NKJV - Does He not see my ways, And count all my steps?
Job 31:5 NKJV - "If I have walked with falsehood, Or if my foot has hastened to deceit,
Job 31:6 NKJV - Let me be weighed on honest scales, That God may know my integrity.
Job 31:7 NKJV - If my step has turned from the way, Or my heart walked after my eyes, Or if any spot adheres to my hands,
Job 31:8 NKJV - [Then] let me sow, and another eat; Yes, let my harvest be rooted out.
Job 31:9 NKJV - "If my heart has been enticed by a woman, Or [if] I have lurked at my neighbor's door,
Job 31:10 NKJV - [Then] let my wife grind for another, And let others bow down over her.
Job 31:11 NKJV - For that [would be] wickedness; Yes, it [would be] iniquity [deserving of] judgment.

Romans 7:21 KJV - I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
Romans 7:22 KJV - For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
Romans 7:23 KJV - But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Romans 7:24 KJV - O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
Romans 7:25 KJV - I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.