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i didn’t quite understand where you were coming from in this post.
I am obsessed with m------- in the sense that i never want to commit that sin… because it is a very serious sin…
no time for further comment. Apparently you don’t think its a serious sin??
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another point:
You say there’s more to life than sex? A lot of the posts i’ve read on this subject (the m word) were not about sex per se. They were about things you could do to keep from committing serious SIN… & as stated in anohter post, the sin of autoeroticism is a very serious one. Also mentioned in another post: More people go to Hell over sexual sins than any other (according to one or more saints). So i don’t agree that its wrong to make a big deal out of that issue…
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Never in all the years of human existence has the temptation of sexual impurity been so readily waiting on seemingly every billboard, television commercial, magazine cover, movie, video game, and talk show. The Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue came out today with Beyonce on the cover. Think that didn’t get my attention? Think I wasn’t tempted to take a peek inside at beautiful young women flouncing about in string bikinis?
We live in a day and age where teens (especially) are being indoctrinated into the norm of contraception, pre-marital sex, co-habitation, and even gay sex. I find it to be a comfort to know that there are so many men and women who are aware of the pitfalls and trying desperately to reject what’s in our face each and every day. There really isn’t an age that can compare to what we battle today. If it means a new post every week, then so be it. The power of lust is insurmountable without prayer, confession, and guidance, and we shouldn’t grouse over the so-called “obsession” about sexual impurity.
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I fully agree. Never can we find a better site thsn this. It’s an oasis in the midst of a desert of moral desolation.
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Amen, amen!! I don’t judge people addicted to… well, whatever… when i know how tempted i can be (am)… True, i don’t think the graphic details some posters give r necessary, & i think we need 2 keep in mind that very young, impressionable children/adolescents can be viewing these sites… but God does want us to help others deal with these problems & concerns…
It seems weird that God gave us all such an interest in and desire for sex… and then we can’t “indulge” except in marriage. I mean, some of us haven’t been fortunate enough 2 find the right spouse… But o well, everyone has his/her cross… Compared to Christ’s cross, this one tends 2 look like a walk in the park… (& we deserve ours, He didn’t…).
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I think so. It kind of reminds me of rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
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Hhmm, it depends what analogy you ascribe to “deck chairs”. Sexual sins are hardly insignificant “deck chairs” in the economy of salvation. In fact you cannot be saved if you continue to sin.
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1cor6 said:
I think this is crucial information. It is from the part of the bible about your body being a temple of the Holy Spirit. It is not irrelevant that, unlike the angels, we were created with differentiated sex and with a body. Also, for death to be finally conquered, it is not enough for us to go to heaven, which our soul already can do, but it is needed that our bodies be rejoined with our souls. Then we say, "Oh Death where is thy victory, Death, where is thy sting?"1cor15:55 Our body is not an indifferent thing, attached to us, dragging us down. It is vital, and it has meaning.
Thus, a sexual sin violates us by violating our body and its meaning. And our body is part of us, so to violate its meaning is a violation to us that hurts us, even if the sin is only solitary sin, and not fornication. Hurting our own selves in turn hurts others, because we go out and interact with others, carrying to them our ideas of self-hood and life-meaning, adding confusion and sorrow to the world.
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I read this today:
**2518 **The sixth beatitude proclaims, “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” “Pure in heart” refers to those who have attuned their intellects and wills to the demands of God’s holiness, chiefly in three areas: charity; chastity or sexual rectitude; love of truth and orthodoxy of faith. There is a connection between purity of heart, of body, and of faith:
The faithful must believe the articles of the Creed “so that by believing they may obey God, by obeying may live well, by living well may purify their hearts, and with pure hearts may understand what they believe.”
2519 The “pure in heart” are promised that they will see God face to face and be like him.312 Purity of heart is the precondition of the vision of God. Even now it enables us to see *according *to God, to accept others as “neighbors”; it lets us perceive the human body - ours and our neighbor’s - as a temple of the Holy Spirit, a manifestation of divine beauty.
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i wish i had read these words b4 talking 2 this acquaintance of mine who argued with me about autoeroticism not being wrong. I tried 2 explain why it is wrong 2 the best of my ability but didn’t SEEM 2 get anywhere… I used 2 wonder why Catholics see this as a sin & Protestants don’t. I think its just because they don’t have as much of Christ as we do… I myself didn’t have as much of a sense of the absolute holiness of God then as i do now (once l got back in the Church, after having been gone a very long time… so i can kind of understand that…). Anyway, it was pleasant reading your words… God bless…
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