Masturbation: Why Should It Be Bad?

[memoryroad]

many people beleive it's a sin,o thers don't.

 

[swordsman]

I don't think it's anybody else's business to tell others what they can and can't do with their bodies. Masturbation is *not* licentious, and nobody should be made to feel guilty about it.

There is nothing in the ten commandments where God says "thou shalt not touch".


tgg

Well, then according to your reasoning:

"There is nothing in the ten commandments where God says "thou shalt not take cocaine"."

and according to you:

"I don't think it's anybody else's business to tell others what they can and can't do with their bodies....AND no body should be made to feel guilty about it".

ok...we'll just let the guy take heroine until he dies...

does that sound silly to you?!? Sure, we as Christians aren't supposed to judge, but it's in our ministry to discipline/correct a fellow Christian. Judging and disciplining are 2 different things. judging is attacking a/the character, disciplining is showing right from wrong.

like I said before to others, if you think you can live a free and fulfilling life in Christ while performing the deed...then fine. I find it hard to believe that that is the case, and with good argument too.

Masturbation, smoking, taking drugs.....all these things aren't mentioned specifically in the bible as sin, however we should be able to figure out that it is not beneficial for our bodies at all, but the opposite.

 

[Mr.Cheese]

I honestly don't see what the big deal about it is.

The circles we run in and the way we make people feel guilty is ten times more evil than relieving a little tension every now and then.

Even James Dobson says that it's private, so leave the kid alone about it ("kid" since he's the focus on the family guy).

If we'd quit making it a big deal, then it wouldn't be a big deal.

 

[Henaynei]

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