Is it OK to find some passages in the bible sexually titillating?
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you mean like in Song of Solomon? I can't think of any other passages that would turn you on....anyway, I don't think it's ok to get aroused by the bible!
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The Bible does not mention ************. ************ has been around for thousands of years - if God hated it, He would say so!\n\nThe Bible does say that God dislikes perverted thoughts about other people - so if you're fantasising about a married person whilst doing it, yes that would be wrong!!\n\nSome people are so desperate to 'prove' that the Bible disapproves of ************ that they misquote a single passage in the Old Testament where a man withdrew from his wife and 'spilled his seed on the floor' to use her and stop her having a baby that he'd promised to try for. Clearly that's condemning what he did to his wife - NOT ************.\n\nThe Christian life can be a very difficult one to live. When churches start to add 'extra' rules ("don't **********", "don't date anyone until you're 18", "no alcohol at all", etc etc) that aren't in the Bible, people always seem to break them. Then they FEEL as though they're sinning because they're disobeying the church - whn in reality, churches need to be very careful not to ask unnecessary and difficult things of their congregations.\n\n************ is not a sin BUT if it CAUSES you to sin, THEN you should stop!
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Kudos to the asker.\n\nTo Christians/Catholics/whatevers who cite the Bible: Homosexuality is noted as a sin in the Old Testament. What else was in the old testament? You can't touch a woman when she's on her period. A woman is unclean during her period. In order to become clean again, the woman or the man that touched her must bathe in a river over their head. \n\nYeah, because that totally makes sense...\n\nBesides, a law cannot be made because of a religion. It's called separation of church and state.
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Get something from Songs of Solomon; that'll blow his mind. My wife did it for me when we were dating and honestly I've never read anything like it.
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the funny thing is, the original text of the OLD testament didn't say anything about homosexuality being a sin either. the part that's commonly translated to say "a man should not lie with another man as he would lie with a woman, that is detestable" was originally mistranslated on PURPOSE when some homophobic church leaders got together to write the king james version...the original hebrew text translates to "a man should not lie with another man in a woman's bed, that is unclean". so basically there's no restriction on who can have sex with whom, just where they are allowed to do it.
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Personally I find the bible lacking lots of information and require you to believe more than I want to believe just on incomplete information as well as things that don't happen today.\n\nI have no problem with Jesus having sex nor do I find in alarming that a man would take on a wife and father children.  \n\nI think it is asking too much of a healthy young virile young man not to experiment with in some form of the other especially with all the pretty girls I am sure that was around in his day,as there are now.\n\nThe bible ask me to believe two things that are not common today nor at any other time in recorded history.  One the bible as you to believe that a virgin had a baby. At no other time in recorded history has this happened. Two we are asked to believe that a young man would go through life without having sex of any kind or experiment with sex.\n\nThose are two of the many things I have questions about the bible.\n\nNow when some new information is introduced into your psych that has been conditioned to believe one train of thougth your entire life is a threat into your very core.\n\nI hope this has been of some use to you, good luck.\n\n"FIGHT ON"
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As a fairly traditional christian, I don't think you are going to find much religious support for masturbation. It may be less of a problem for women to masturbate (cf biblical prohibition against spilling one's seed), but I don't think you are going to find many traditional sources that support the practice.\n\nRemeber that unclean thoughts themselves are sinful. Don't you think that masturbating will bring about unclean thoughts?\n\nRead this: http://www.religioustolerance.org/masturba6.htm
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Check the BIBLE, it might be in there.
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I am a Christian and my husband and I enjoy doing whatever we can to please each other, oral included. God intended for that stuff to be fun and exciting within the boundries of marriage so why not indulge? It's funny how people think Christians are prudes! So not true! Now we don't watch porns or anything stupid like that. We get our jollies from the joy of each other's company. Just the way God intended!
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Yes.  I would suggest reading James 3.  As Jesus said to the Pharisees:\n\nMatthew 12:34 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.\n 35 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.\n 36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.\n 37 For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
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You would comit every sin in the book!!! But im not telling you to do this? becuase its bad!! You shouldnt do it!!!
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Please, forget about the bible and all that crap, masturbation is a throughly natural human response. You will not go to hell for it and it will not make you a sex maniac.
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Well back in the day, and I know this comment is going to offend people. But my husband used the bible as rolling papers for his \n"recreational smoking" They work perfectly!!!!  LOL
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The Master taught Love.\n   If you look at the laws of the Old Testament, and you read Genesis or the chapters that come before the laws are given - things were out of control - completely out of control. Take a journey then, and if you pass through many of the towns in those days (not just Sodom - but many) - there was a very good chance part of your reception is either you or your wife getting gang-raped - straight or gay. i promise if you read it, it's there. The circumstance happens again and again in Genesis, and continues after Israel is created. So that's what people did acceptably at that time and it was way out of moral or legal control -- so these laws came in that said no homosexuality - but also addressed all of these other sexual issues too - no adultery, no sex within the family etc. etc. The mistake is people single out one law and don't cross-reference all the others given on the topic - which is sexuality. If there are laws for adultery and homosexuality, and they are in the same category - then nobody really has the right to toss stones at anybody.\n   More importantly - neither is an unforgiveable sin.\n   There is lust, and there is Love, and Yeshua Messiah is about Love - and caring that we don't hurt one another (Love your neighbor as yourself), because naturally in the process hurt ourselves.\n   Read the Psalms - they're incredible. read the New Testament - it's about Love - and the fact that this subject not reallytalked about in the New Testament tells us that by then, people had calmed down from the outrageously immoral days of the Old Testament - and Jesus cares about what's in your Heart above all, which is his measuring rod - and it's 100 applicable to anyone, straight or gay, because Jesus himself said so.\n   God's Blessings, my friend.\n   God Loves you.
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Matthew 5:27-30:\n"You have heard that it was said, `Do not commit adultery.'  But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.  If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.  And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to go into hell.\n\nProverbs 6:25-26:\nDo not lust in your heart after her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes, for the prostitute reduces you to a loaf of bread, and the adulteress preys upon your very life.\n\nColossians 3:5-6:\nPut to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.  Because of these, the wrath of God is coming.\n\n1 Thessalonians 4:3-8:\nIt is God's will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality;  that each of you should learn to control his own body in a way that is holy and honorable,  not in passionate lust like the heathen, who do not know God;  and that in this matter no one should wrong his brother or take advantage of him. The Lord will punish men for all such sins, as we have already told you and warned you.  For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life.  Therefore, he who rejects this instruction does not reject man but God, who gives you his Holy Spirit.
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Dude, jack all week, repent on Sunday. God will love you!\n\nBut seriously, if you are looking lustfully at the women or ughh men then yes.  No the bible doesn't mention porn exactly, but what happened at Sodom and Gamora?  The bible does though give reference to certain acts.
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The Scriptures counsel: “Deaden, therefore, your body members that are upon the earth as respects fornication, uncleanness, sexual appetite, hurtful desire, and covetousness.” (Colossians 3:5) Is one who practices masturbation ‘deadening his body members as respects sexual appetite’? On the contrary, he is stimulating the sexual appetite. The Bible urges that one avoid the thinking and conduct that lead to such problems, replacing them with wholesome activity, and that one cultivate self-control. (Philippians 4:8; Galatians 5:22, 23) When earnest effort is put forth to do this, such self-abuse can be avoided, with benefits mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.\n\nMasturbation is an unclean habit. (2 Corinthians 7:1) However, the Bible does not class it with serious sins such as fornication. In fact, it does not mention it at all. Therefore, a lapse into masturbation would hardly be unforgivable. Viewing it as if it were beyond forgiveness could actually be dangerous; a youth might reason that there is little point in trying to overcome the problem. But Bible principles indicate that a Christian should put forth strenuous efforts to fight this habit. (Colossians 3:5)\n\nA youth asked: “Is masturbation an unforgivable sin?” Masturbation is not mentioned at all in the Bible. The practice was common in the Greek-speaking world during Bible times, and several Greek words were used to describe the practice. But not one of these words is used in the Bible.\n\nSince masturbation is not directly condemned in the Bible, does this mean it is harmless? Absolutely not! Though it is not classed with such gross sins as fornication, masturbation is surely an unclean habit. (Ephesians 4:19) The principles of God’s Word thus indicate that you “benefit yourself” by strongly resisting this unclean habit.—Isaiah 48:17.\n\nThough sexual offenses such as premarital sex (fornication), homosexuality, adultery, and bestiality are plainly condemned as gross sins in the Bible, masturbation is not mentioned. (Genesis 39:7-9; Leviticus 18:20, 22, 23; 1 Corinthians 6:9, 10)\n\nThe apostle Paul, however, did not let his desires become like a harsh master. On the contrary, he wrote: “I pummel my body [fleshly desires] and lead it as a slave.” (1 Corinthians 9:27) He got tough with himself! A similar effort will enable anyone to break free from masturbation.