Chaos Envoy wrote:Except you don't have an intense desire to possess the figment of your imagination. (Or shouldn't anyway) It's just THERE. It is possible to create an image in your head without DESIRING it at all, which is therefore NOT lust by the definition Aineo stated.
Maybe you don't have an intense desire to possess a vigment of your imagination, however others just might. Jesus used lust as we can and do use the word "covet".
Exodus 20:17
17 "You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife or his male servant or his female servant or his ox or his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor." NAS
Romans 8:6-8
6 For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace, 7 because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so; 8 and those who are in the flesh cannot please God. NAS
Or as James wrote:
James 1:14-15
14 But each one is tempted when he is carried away and enticed by his own lust. 15 Then when lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and when sin is accomplished, it brings forth death. NAS