Is masterba***n a sin?
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Masturbation is widespread. Reportedly, some 97 percent of males and more than 90 percent of females have masturbated by the age of 21. Furthermore, this practice has been blamed for all manner of ills—from warts and red eyelids to epilepsy and mental illness.\n\nTwentieth-century medical researchers no longer make such alarming claims. Indeed, doctors today believe that no physical illness is caused by masturbation. Researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson add that “there is no established medical evidence that masturbation, regardless of frequency, leads to mental illness.” Nevertheless, there are other ill effects! And many Christian youths are rightly concerned about the practice. “When I gave in to [masturbation], I’d feel as if I were failing Jehovah God,” wrote one youth. “I got seriously depressed sometimes.”\n\nMasturbation is deliberate self-stimulation to produce sexual arousal. During the bloom of youth, sexual desires become strong. Powerful hormones are released that affect the reproductive organs. A youth thus becomes aware that these organs are capable of producing pleasurable sensations. And sometimes a youth may become sexually excited without even thinking about sex.\n\nFor instance, the tensions produced by various worries, fears, or frustrations can affect a boy’s sensitive nervous system and cause sexual arousal. A buildup of semen may in turn cause him to awaken sexually excited. Or it may produce a nocturnal emission, usually accompanied by an erotic dream. Similarly, some young girls may find themselves stimulated unintentionally. Many have a heightened sexual desire just before or after their menstrual period.\n\nSo if you have experienced such arousal, there is nothing wrong with you. This is a normal response of a youthful body. Such sensations, even if very intense, are not the same as masturbation, since they are largely involuntary. And as you grow older, the intensity of these new sensations will subside.\n\nCuriosity and the novelty of these new sensations, though, lead some youths deliberately to manipulate, or play with, their sexual organs.\n\nThe Bible describes a young man who meets a promiscuous woman. She kisses him and says: “Do come, . . . let us enjoy each other with love expressions.” Then what happens? “All of a sudden he is going after her, like a bull that comes even to the slaughter.” (Proverbs 7:7-22) Obviously, this youth’s passions were aroused not simply because his hormones were at work but because of what he saw and heard.\n\nSimilarly, one young man admits: ‘The root of my whole problem with masturbation boiled down to what I put in my mind. I would watch TV programs that included immorality and in some cases watch programs on cable TV that would show nudity. Such scenes are so shocking that they stay with you. They would surface again in my mind, providing the mental fuel needed to engage in masturbation.’\n\nYes, often it is what one reads, watches, or listens to, as well as what one talks about or meditates on, that triggers masturbation. As one 25-year-old woman confessed: “I just couldn’t seem to stop the habit. However, I used to read romance novels, and this contributed to the problem.”\n\nThis young woman’s experience reveals what is undoubtedly the greatest reason why the habit can be so hard to break. She continues: “Usually I masturbated to release pressure, tension, or anxiety. That fleeting pleasure was like the drink the alcoholic takes to calm his nerves.”\n\nResearchers Suzanne and Irving Sarnoff write: “For some people masturbation may become a habit to which they turn for solace whenever they are rebuffed or feel apprehensive about something. Others, however, may withdraw in this way only occasionally, when they are under the most acute emotional stress.” Evidently, others similarly resort to the habit when upset, depressed, lonely, or under much stress; it becomes a “tranquilizer” to blot out th
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no .. actually it does say u are king , u are god but it's a sample from an old song and it doesn't say lucifer and the girl is actually a guy .. i've heard the original sample . it's just played fast during stay fly . three six mafia doesn't worship the devil .. so get over it .. this is old news.  and juicy j doesnt say lucifer before the first verse, he says juicy .. i've listened to it so many times .. believe me.
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No, absolutely not, sweetheart.\nOnce you love someone, it couldn't be a sin. I mean, don't be promiscuous.\n\nHate people is a sin. Kill somebody is a sin. Envy is a terrible sin. War is a big big sin. Gossip is a sin.\n\nThe gender doesn't matter, God want us to love each other. A love stronger than racism, larger than life. \n\nStay cool!!!
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flatlinzreborn is right. The first sin was disobeying God. Regardless of what that fruit was.
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Your premise is flawed. Man is intrinsically bad according to the Bible.
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A sin is a sin is a sin.
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God's goodness demands that He punish evil. But it does not restrict Him from taking that punishment upon Himself, in the form of His only Begotten Son, the Messiah Jesus.\n\nHowever, if you only want to continue in your sins, there is no point in bringing you to Heaven, where there is no sin (Revelation 21:8, 22:11; John 3:16-21).
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Like it says in the Bible, man cannot serve two masters.  I didn't read the other answers, and I'm sure this has been stated before, but it is so true.  Ask anyone who has had to work 2 jobs.  One of them takes priority over the other.  Or look at a person who has 2 lovers.  One person is neglected while the other is the priority.  Whether we want to admit it or not, two similar situations causes our feeble human brains to choose which is more important.  It is human nature.
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well, stealing of any kind is a sin, correct? and if you're not paying for those songs...... well, doesnt sound like somthing Jesus would do....
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This is a sin. See what the Bible has to say about it:\n\nRomans 12:19\nDearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.\n\nHebrews 10:30\nFor we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord.\n\n1 Peter 3:9\nnot returning evil for evil or insult for insult, but giving a blessing instead; for you were called for the very purpose that you might inherit a blessing.\n\nRomans 12:14\nBless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. \n\nLuke 6:28\nbless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.
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It is because man sin too much
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God feels the same way about this that He does about mastication.  It's a natural thing that actually is a genuine part of being a man, but if you make it the center of your life it becomes sin.
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I don't believe there is a hell.  Why would a supreme being have petty emmotions like venegence?  What use would there be?  He wants us to learn from mistakes, and he forgives...so why a hell?  It's a bit harsh.
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So who says "feeling your nuts" is a sin?
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Masturbation usually involves lust. It says in many verses in the bible to flee lusts. and talks about sexual immorality. so yes accordsing to the bible masturbation is a sin.\nyou dont want to let it control you and sexual sins are hard to escape from. 1 Corinthians 6:12\n"Everything is permissible for me", but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is permissible for me," but I will not be mastered by anything....Matthew 5:28\nBut I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.\ngo to www.biblegateway.com and keyword lust. it will be helpful i know that you can overcome!
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No, according to the laws of the Old Testament, Jesus would be God's bastard Son, since God was not married to Mary when He caused her to be pregnant with His Son. By modern standards that would also make God a deadbeat Dad, but at the time no such shame was generally attached to the Father. All shame was generally borne by the mother (whore) and the Son (bastard).\n\nJoseph is merely Jesus's stepfather.
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You sinned against JOE ^^^ \n\nHahaha.  How?  By pointing out the hypocricy of some guy Joe has never met?\n\n"Sinned against me" - goodness.  God-complex anyone?