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2 Peter 2:14
14 Having [echo] eyes [ophthalmos] full [mestos] of adultery [moichalis], and [kai] that cannot cease from [akatapaustos] sin [hamartia]; beguiling [deleazo] unstable [asteriktos] souls [psuche]: an heart [kardia] they have [echo] exercised [gumnazo] with covetous practices [pleonexia]; cursed [katara] children [teknon]: KJV-Interlinear
14 having eyes full of adultery and that never cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having a heart trained in greed, accursed children; NASB
Adultery here stands for dishonesty, betrayal, deceitfulness, treachery, unfaithfulness to ones true life mate.
Your true, and one and only true mate for life, for all of eternity, is Bible doctrine. That is the only possession, which you can receive into your soul and possess for all of eternity, and make yourself whole and complete. That is the one thing that will give you happiness, fulfillment, meaning and purpose in life, security, satisfaction, capacity, and completeness of and for your self.
The entire book of the Song of Solomon, is about divine viewpoint and your intimate relationship with Bible doctrine.
When you are not true to doctrine, then you are an adulterer, cheating not only on yourself, but on God, on Christ, on truth and on everything in life that has any value.
When you are indifferent toward your spiritual life then you by default, embrace and pursue sin. And remember that the sin nature has two regions within it. The first is an area of weakness, which is sin, and the second is the area of strength called human good. Both are ingredients for an apostate life making you a traitorous, fugitive from life. You might want to review the Human Carnal Nature chart sometime, for a more descriptive view of the regions of the sin nature.
Continued departure from doctrine and truth, becomes a habit forming pattern of life that becomes difficult to correct and escape. Once you have pursued anti-doctrine values, then that pattern of life becomes your training ground and breeding ground for disaster and failure in life.
Continued departure from doctrine results in a pattern of life that becomes as natural to you as the instincts of animals are to their function in life. At some point in your life, your chosen philosophies, and beliefs will seem perfectly natural and normal to you. And, once you have adopted a certain view of life, then correcting it, or changing from it, becomes difficult if not impossible.
Continued departure from doctrine results in a soul untrained in truth, and therefore an unprepared soul. An unprepared soul is an unstable soul, incapable of correctly viewing life.
The eventual result – a cursed life. Not cursed specifically for this life in this world, but with respect to your overall evaluation for all of eternity. In this world you will find all categories of success and failure, but everyone eventually meets their maker, and in leaving this world, all become equally subject to Gods evaluation.
Spiritual production is rewarded, while spiritual dysfunction is not.
