An addiction is a illness…
I don’t get it how it can be seen as a grave sin… He has the problem he is sick, addiction means being sick. It’s like getting a depression. He needs God to be cured from addiction. I also am addicted but know I need Gods help to stop.
And even if I keep mastrubating I’m sorry but I’m sick. Also everyone sins, we lie, we feel anger, and can’t forgive people.
Also I would like to see the bible page that says we cannot mastrubate. ITS NOT A SIN.
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WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT MASTURBATION?
There is virtually nothing said in the Bible about masturbation.
That said, let us now go on to look at what strange things have come about in the view of sexuality in many churches and Christian homes.
ABUSE OF THE BIBLE ON THE SUBJECT:
There is one text used against masturbation.
Genesis 38:9 And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother’s wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother.
10 And the thing which he did displeased the LORD: wherefore he slew him also.
This text cannot be applied to masturbation. The whole context is in regard to a man trying to engineer which of his wives will give birth to the first son and thus the heir. Onan’s brother had died, and God provided for the widowed wife to be redeemed by the brother of the deceased men. The “kinsman redeemer” would marry the widow, and her first son would inherit his deceased father’s inheritance. Onan displeased God in that God did not want his people manipulating His sovereignty and robbing his brother’s wife of an heir. The point is not wasting the “seed,” the point is about cruel control of destiny and degrading of the wife.
Other than this sort of thing, masturbation is not found in the Bible. In fact, “spilling it on the ground” just before ejaculation was a very common form of birth control with Jews long ago.
REASON:
Reason is the tool of the apologist from here on out. He will reason that sex is for marriage and procreation. He will not talk about sex being pleasurable. Many saints really do think sex is only to make babies. Note Solomon on sex…
Proverbs 5:15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
16 Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
17 Let them be only thine own, and not strangers’ with thee.
18 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
19 Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.
20 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
Solomon clearly talks about pleasure in sex, and procreation has NOTHING to do with it. The fountain is a discreet reference to the man’s pleasure in copulation. The graphical language is very obvious. The sin would only be in sharing the fountain with anyone other than the god-given wife. In the right setting, the fountain is to be very busy for a godly man and women.
Song of Solomon 7:8 I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples;
There would be a lot less stress in Christian marriage if husbands and wives talked to each other in these terms. Also, note that procreation is not mentioned ONCE in Song of Solomon. The satisfaction of sexual love is everywhere in the book, and it is of God and it is good for godly people to enjoy sex.
So, masturbation cannot be pushed into the sin category by saying that copulation is only for having babies.
The next trick the alleged experts will use is that masturbation is selfish.
Well then, so is eating a chocolate bar. If I eat a chocolate bar and enjoy it, am I selfish. It gratifies my need for pleasure in food, and that too is sanctioned by David, Solomon, and others as they describe special feast type foods which satisfy me. So, that one won’t fly either.
The next trick is to say that there are many things the Bible does not mention, but we know that they are sin by other contexts. Things like smoking and drug abuse will be cited.
Well, masturbation was not some late thing to come along which Bible writers did not know about. Adam could have conceivably masturbated if he had wanted to. I note that God gave council on much to do with sexual things, and He made it very clear which things were sin or forbidden:
- Adultery
- Fornication
- Sodomy
- Having sex with an animal
- Women grabbing a man’s testicles (stones) during a fight
I suppose I missed something, but you see the point. Masturbation is so common, and it is available to both men and women, that we must not assume it into the sin category when God made NO comment at all on the subject.
Also, young people, as they gain sexual performance in early teens, commonly experiment with the body God gave them. To assume that the playing with one’s privates, and eventually masturbation, is sin, is doing violence to what God did. If God did not want kids playing with themselves, God would have commented on it. And, God would have given kids longer to develop so that their ability to perform sexually would coincide better with the accepted age of marriage and starting a family. God is not the author of confusion. The talent of generating confusion is reserved for those who proscribe, with man made codes and assumptions, what God says nothing about.
