Um, you and millions of other guys are guilty too. Is it sin? If so, I demand to know where.
No where that I know of. Though some Roman Catholics believe differently, so that is there faith to them that masturbation is a sin. I think that is what Zeena was eluding too.
I do not agree at all that masturbation is lust because I agree that lust is coveting with a desire to take away that person's spouse in their heart.
Thinking or even saying a person looks nice, pretty in that dress or handsome in that tie, is not a sin. It happens every day. These are compliments. Compliments are great, but if a person started complimenting you everyday, let's say at a work place, and the person who is getting all the compliments is married, that could signal someone trying to manipulate someone into an affair and is "coveting" because of the continual pursuing of someone who is married.
My point for assessing that lust is coveting to take away someone elses wife, comes from what David did when he had Uriah killed so he could have Bathsheba as his wife. And the command, though shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife...
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If you are not walking in Love, believing God is the One Loving you whilst you perform such actions [abiding in Him] then it is not of faith and ergo sin [for you].
If so, STOP IT!
If not, ENJOY!
Wow! I couldn't agree more...and either could the Apostle Paul!
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Romans 14:4
Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand.
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Romans 14:4
Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand.
Way to pull that out of context.
Rom 14:1 Now accept the one who is weak in faith, but not for the purpose of passing judgment on his opinions.
Rom 14:2 One person has faith that he may eat all things, but he who is weak eats vegetables only.
Rom 14:3 The one who eats is not to regard with contempt the one who does not eat, and the one who does not eat is not to judge the one who eats, for God has accepted him.
Rom 14:4 Who are you to judge the servant of another? To his own master he stands or falls; and he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.
Rom 14:5 One person regards one day above another, another regards every day alike. Each person must be fully convinced in his own mind.
Rom 14:6 He who observes the day, observes it for the Lord, and he who eats, does so for the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who eats not, for the Lord he does not eat, and gives thanks to God.
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See? Evolution is true! Computers are way better than spears!
If you has questions for Theology, I has answers. Shoot me a PM with your questions.
If you are the one using your computer, than it is not of faith.
Otherwise, what is faith?
Faith only to believe Jesus died for your sins?
Or that He now Lives in and through you by that same faith?
Hebrews 11:1-2
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good report.
Romans 8:11
But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwelleth in you, he that raised up Christ Jesus from the dead shall give life also to your mortal bodies through his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
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