Is masturbation a sin?

Addiction,is sin. Ar you addicted,some say yes some say no to masturbation. Ask yourself what glory does this bring unto God

(bigdummy;46352)
Nyoka:Been there, Done that, and I feel no guilt.My wife of 60 years (come August 2nd,2008) has been unwell with kidney failure for 6 and a half years and on dialysis three times a week, she also has fibrosis and arthritis to the digree she is in a wheelchair.When a woman is in that condition I assure you that the last thing on her mind is sex. In that I have reached the age of 83 my sex drive has all but disappeared, however every once in a while I get the feeling to repeat "My precious memories" and in all the years of our marriage I have never cheated on my wife, but on rare occasions have masturabated with no feeling of guilt so I can understand the feelings of your sisters husband and I applaud not condemn the man, for not cheating on your sister. ...God Bless...Ray
Thank you for the kind words. Many people have set ideas on these things but have NEVER been in a situation that tests their ideas - as my brother in law and yourself are. I believe that in a marriage situation there is a legitimate use for masturbation. If it is used outside of marriage then it comes under fornication. What you say would also apply to a wife who's husband is unable to have normal relationships. I know this as my husband is quite often in severe pain and can go for months and months and months without even desiring a sexual relationship. Like you I have used it to stay faithful to my husband also. Woman are just as prone to masturbate as men are.

(Nyoka;46363)
Woman are just as prone to masturbate as men are.
Uh huh. I don't believe that for one minute. XD.

(Nyoka;46363)
Thank you for the kind words. Many people have set ideas on these things but have NEVER been in a situation that tests their ideas - as my brother in law and yourself are. I believe that in a marriage situation there is a legitimate use for masturbation. If it is used outside of marriage then it comes under fornication. What you say would also apply to a wife who's husband is unable to have normal relationships. I know this as my husband is quite often in severe pain and can go for months and months and months without even desiring a sexual relationship. Like you I have used it to stay faithful to my husband also. Woman are just as prone to masturbate as men are.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but did you just say that married men whose wives are no longer interested in sex can masturbate, but it's fornication if a single man does it?

Can someone please answer this question,When someone becomes a Christain and asks God into thier life and accepts that Jesus died for thier sins and rose again...If this person trys to stop Masterbating but every now and then fails will God keep forgiving him,just have a problem with this cos when you get saved you are ment to repeant...Just with me I am trying to stop masterbating since got saved but seem to only last about a week then go back and masterbate,will God keep forgiving me...Please help...

(bondsemerson;46456)
Can someone please answer this question,When someone becomes a Christain and asks God into thier life and accepts that Jesus died for thier sins and rose again...If this person trys to stop Masterbating but every now and then fails will God keep forgiving him,just have a problem with this cos when you get saved you are ment to repeant...Just with me I am trying to stop masterbating since got saved but seem to only last about a week then go back and masterbate,will God keep forgiving me...Please help...
Hey bondsemerson, God sees when a person falls even though he is trying to stand. I can relate to how you feel. I know you ask Jesus to forgive you, and He does forgive you. You walk purely, and then you, against all your desires and wishes, stop and fall again, but God sees that in you. God tells you "you are free, I died for you, I shed my blood so you could live and be free. He knows it pains you. Come to Jesus and tell Him about your issue. Tell Him how it is. He sees your heart. He forgives. He did not come to judge you. He did not come to find faults in you and to criticize you. He came to free you. He forgives again and again. You are free. Take that into your heart. He makes you righteouss. Read the Bible. Pray. God bless you! I was there once too. God sets people free from their addictions and sins if they want to change. I will pray for you. Grace be with you.

(Kimshi42;30891)
Thoughts? Wasn't Onan killed by God for "spilling his seed?" He wasn't masturbating, but onanism is taken to mean masturbation. Why, I don't know. I guess because it is a type of spilling the seed also. But women don't "spill their seed" when doing this. So...?
Masturbation is a sin.It is a sin that totally shoots down your spiritual level to the bottom. It does not bring you closer to God.

(Aleks_Kravchuk;46476)
Hey bondsemerson, God sees when a person falls even though he is trying to stand. I can relate to how you feel. I know you ask Jesus to forgive you, and He does forgive you. You walk purely, and then you, against all your desires and wishes, stop and fall again, but God sees that in you. God tells you "you are free, I died for you, I shed my blood so you could live and be free. He knows it pains you. Come to Jesus and tell Him about your issue. Tell Him how it is. He sees your heart. He forgives. He did not come to judge you. He did not come to find faults in you and to criticize you. He came to free you. He forgives again and again. You are free. Take that into your heart. He makes you righteouss. Read the Bible. Pray. God bless you! I was there once too. God sets people free from their addictions and sins if they want to change. I will pray for you. Grace be with you.
Thanks mate,I am preying to God to help me in this I suppsoe I have to just try harder.It just says in the bible adulters wont get into heaven so when you are masterbating you are lusting after a women,so this is adultry in Gods eyes..so if you keep doing it how can you get to heaven,even you try to stop.

(Aleks_Kravchuk;46477)
Masturbation is a sin.It is a sin that totally shoots down your spiritual level to the bottom. It does not bring you closer to God.
Show scripture that says so. Otherwise, it's just an opinion. I do not believe masturbation is sin unless someone has sexual fantasies while doing it. It's something I can no longer do, but I never thought it was a sin except when I had thoughts I shouldn't have had. When I had such thoughts I always felt guilty afterward, but when I didn't have such thoughts while masturbating I felt no guilt about the act itself. If masturbation is sin, why would the Holy Spirit only convict when I had fantasies while doing it and not when I didn't have the fantasies?As for Onan, he was commanded of God to give seed to his deceased brother's widow who would then inherit. Onan didn't want another heir to take his place and pulled out of her and "spilled his seed on the ground." It wasn't masturbation, and he wasn't killed for masturbating. He was killed for disobeying God.

About fantasys dont you always have fantasys when masterbating.

(RaddSpencer;46382)
Uh huh. I don't believe that for one minute. XD.
Don't speak too quickly there Radd. I'm female. I KNOW such a blanket statement can be refuted. :naughty:

refering to nocturnal emissions:And if any man's seed of copulation go out from him, then he shall wash all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the even.(Leviticus 15:16, KJV)15:18 And if a woman have an issue, and her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be put apart seven days: and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the evenThis is the law of him that hath an issue, and of him whose seed goeth from him, and is defiled therewith;(Leviticus 15:32, KJV)If there be among you any man, that is not clean by reason of uncleanness that chanceth him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the campDeuteronomy 23:10, KJV)now if these are penalties for accidental emissions at night, what do you think masturbation is considered as? seeing that it is not accidental, it is purely fornication and perversion. I'm sure there were plenty of masturbators in sodom and gomorrah, no im not condemning anyone, if you do this, pray and repent. if the urge creeps on you, change your daily thought patterns, this perversion has plagued our society, but you can overcome it! just pray, and fast if needed! but do not rationalize it, it is SIN and it defiles you! fornicationII Chronicles 21:11:Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and compelled Judah thereto.Isaiah 23:17:And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the Lord will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.Ezekiel 16:26:Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.Ezekiel 16:29:Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith.Matthew 5:32:But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.Matthew 19:9:And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.John 8:41:Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.Acts 15:20:But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.Acts 15:29:That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.Acts 21:25:As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.Romans 1:29:Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,I Corinthians 5:1:It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.I Corinthians 6:13:Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.I Corinthians 6:18:Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.I Corinthians 7:2:Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.I Corinthians 10:8:Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.II Corinthians 12:21:And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.Galatians 5:19:Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,Ephesians 5:3:But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;Colossians 3:5:Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:I Thessalonians 4:3:For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:Jude 1:7:Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.Revelation of John 2:14:But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.Revelation of John 2:20:Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.Revelation of John 2:21:And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.Revelation of John 9:21:Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.Revelation of John 14:8:And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.Revelation of John 17:2:With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.Revelation of John 17:4:And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:Revelation of John 18:3:For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.Revelation of John 18:9:And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,Revelation of John 19:2:For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great *****, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.

(bondsemerson;46551)
About fantasys dont you always have fantasys when masterbating.
Not always. You mean to tell me that a teenager needs to fantasize in order to masturbate? They get erections for no reason. I remember doing it without fantasies as an adult, if I went long enough in between. I recently read somewhere that some doctor said that men's prostates would be healthier if they masturbated at least FIVE times per week. I'd be happy if I could do it once a week. It's been years since I rose to the occasion.

Is Masturbation a sin?No, it's simply a normal thing which people do. It's actually healthy. I think in the Middle Ages men believed that if they masturbated their genitals would fall off. But that's not exactly true.I see fundamentalist religion as a plot to absolutely control people, there is no better way to do that than controling a persons sex-life. That's where I place the Masturbation-Sin debate, as well as the Fornication-Sin debate and the Homosexuality-Sin debate.Allan.

(Jon-Marc;46451)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but did you just say that married men whose wives are no longer interested in sex can masturbate, but it's fornication if a single man does it?
Sorry Jon-Marc I didn't see your post. I don't think I was explaining myself properly -posted just before going to bed. What I meant to add to it was that if a single man/woman was masturbating while fantasizing about a woman/man, respectively, then it is fornication. This would apply to married men fantasizing about another woman other than their wife too. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

(Unorthodox Christian;31019)
RELIEVE STRESS YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME RIGHT? All Christian men struggle with this, this is no lie and no secret. But I mean to relieve stress? Did Yeshua not say those who are leavy laden come unto him, HE IS OUR STRESS RELIEVER THE SOURCE OF OUR STRENGTH in times of Need. THIS IS WHEN PRAYING and FASTING are strongly encouraged.Mark 9:29 And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.This was pertaining to the disciples asking him why they couldn't cast out the demons. They weren't strong enough, Fasting and Praying kills of the flesh and strengthens the spirit. YESHUA HAMASHIACH, NEVER MASTURBATED. ANYTHING THAT IS DONE FOR SELF GAIN, LUST IS SIN! Do not compromise the Ways of God and please do no sympathize on the behalf of Sin.Masturbation is a sin, but it is also a battle.Bless you all in the Name of Yeshua HaMashiach. FOLLOW YESHUA'S WAY!
Thank you Unorthodox Christian for sharing words of wisdom onto this matter. Masturbation is a complete act of sin, please read in Matthew 5:28 "but I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart." Even though is related to adultery, Adonai's words are light into darkness, just by looking or thinking with lust after a woman ( which is creation of our Father El Shaddai) the only act of looking or thinking is a sin in our hearts, now imagine to consume the act of masturbation. Praised be the Lord Adonai for bringing Light into darkness.!!!

First of all one has to ask oneself "am I living under the old covenant or the new?"If you living under the old you have to keep all the law not just parts of it or your doomed. Too many teachers and pastors take parts of the old covenant and impose it on those living under the new. An example is tithing. That is not to be found under the new covenant, it is an old covenant teaching. Apart from the fact that it is not 10% it is three offerings of 10% so a total of 30% in one year.Onan is old covenant which was fulfilled and surpassed in Christ. We are now living under a new covenant of grace which says if we sin we have an advocate with the father who not only forgives our sin but also forgets them.What does the new covenant of grace teach? We are accepted in Jesus and God sees us through Jesus, the perfect son of God, not through our imperfections and shortcomings.As has been said, masturbation is not directly covered under the new covenant so all one can do is to surmise whether it is right or wrong. The starting point has to be 'is it compulsive'. If it is then it is wrong because it has become our master, and you can't serve two masters.If it is compulsive, it is due to some emotional deficiency in the persons life so it is no use telling them it is wrong and they should stop it. Until you address the root cause, the fruit won't be dealt with.

I thought I should post this on this thread, because its on this thread which i have posted my beliefs and struggles about masturbation. I feel that God has granted me the grace and the power to finally be able to fight this addiction. It is through his power that I will be able to conquer this, and his power alone. So I would like you to pray for me. Pray that I will not fall into temptation. Pray that I will not look in myself for the power to fight this, but to fight it for the glory of God. And lastly may you pray that one day I will gain complete purity. Your brother in Christ Ryan Fitz

(Kimshi42;30891)
Thoughts? Wasn't Onan killed by God for "spilling his seed?" He wasn't masturbating, but onanism is taken to mean masturbation. Why, I don't know. I guess because it is a type of spilling the seed also. But women don't "spill their seed" when doing this. So...?
I do not believe the physical act of masterbation is a sin. Again, I believe it is a heart issue. What THOUGHTS are causing you to masterbate? I can't say the very act itself is sinful. I have thought once, "I believe masterbation may be sinful, as sin simply means to miss the mark... and masterbation is not the intended use of ones sexual organ." However, God has also intended sex for pleasure between a man and a woman, and as long as that act doesn't go outside of the confines of your marriage partner... I do not believe it is sinful.It's a touchy subject, pardon the pun... but I will say that we should seek a spouse if we burn with lust, rather than sin in our lust--materbation or otherwise. :-/

masturbation is a sin for all reasons like fantasy what goldy said and it entails impurity, a self-contained act, it is not self-giving but self-indulgence. A pleasure that is derived out of sexuality. And sexuality is a gift from God. If it is a gift from god, it is to be used well for what is was designed. Puberty and Sexual maturity prepare a man for fatherhood and a woman for motherhood. To indulge in Masturbation for despicable grounds like 'relieving stress', 'enjoyment' or 'better than commiting adultery is to masturbate and relieve yourself' This kind of reasoning reminds me that better than killing someone who is in your way after looting is to give him a blow on the head so that he loses his memory and you can escape but its ok as you did not kill him. You just took his savings away. When God designed procreation as something to be enjoyable between Man and Woman, can God, then take it as concession that we are allowed in a solitary postion to masturbate so as to prevent the sin? Fine, if circumstances were so pressing, then it may very well be understandable but still amounts to a sin. You have offended God as you have participated in a Sin. God may understand that you were hungry and stole bread but its different when you refuse to concede that you did something wrong. Crooner says, "Sex is also designed for enjoyment between married people" Who said that?? The argument of married people is just an excuse for enjoyment. Because if you enjoy 'Sex' in marriage, the lines between a spouse being a subject and a sexual object becomes hazy. God only gave us sexuality as a gift so that life can be given out of love of man and woman and they may enjoy 'life giving love'. What is life giving love in enjoying sex by using contraceptives? Crooner uses the word 'design'. Thats exactly what procreation is: Design. Every sexual act can be enjoyed until you keep it open to procreation. You keep it open to God's will to bless you with a child. And when you keep it open to Procreation, you keep God's will open to decide if this life giving love should be blessed, that means everytime you have sex keeping procreation open, God is sanctifying the sexual act. It is blessed in the eyes of God because if a woman gets pregnant tomorrow, she will accept it as God's will for her to conceive. By this reasoning, how is enjoying 'sex' in marriage god's design if we don't keep it open to Procreation? It is then just what St. Paul keeps constantly reminding us: let of bodily desires, worldly pleasures, senses of the flesh, Man and Woman is spirit body is the temple of God. When you enjoy sex in marriage much like masturbation alone, It is just enjoying the senses of the flesh. Only difference being you feel vindicated because she/he is your spouse and hence you feel nothing wrong? But it is doing your 'own' will and not God's. If you decided to enjoy a woman's body or for a woman to enjoy the man's body what sanctification is there in that? Like Crooner says rightly, "God is a holy God and we need to be pure before Him." How is enjoying sex if not for procreation a holy thing? Isn't it impure that we are convinced we are spirits and take refuge in pleasures of each other's flesh? This is the principle difference. When you keep it open to procreation, it doesn't remain bodily pleasure and refuge because God blesses the act with life and a soul, So Man and Woman as souls together in Marriage, a convenant, are blessed by God with a soul, God given soul. We do not need Onan so much as to understand why masturbation is a sin. It was meant for procreation and masturbation is not serving that purpose. It is difficult to accept it because it is tough. Before all of us stands a grim truth: I can only have sex then for procreation. So if we cow away from the truth we will never accpt the truth. A man who thinks the perks of marriage is to enjoy some 'good loving' from his wife and vice versa will never accept this procreation argument. Because between him and his pleasure stands God's will and design. He cannot fathom his life without masturbating or having sex for pleasure so he says it cannot be true. This would be typical of 'If we do not act according to how we think then we will think according to how we act' Thats is why a proud person can never accept he is wrong. He is used to thinking according to what he does: living with pride. Everyone will probably agree Sodomy is a sin. Why is that because it is homosexual? Again we miss the point. Homosexual act is a primary and crux ingredient: that God designed Man and woman. We also forget the design again. Homosexual sex cannot bear fruit. It is not procreation. It is again against design. how is the masturbation different from Homosexual act, one performed alone and another with a person of the same sex but the act being the same. there is only a cooperation of man and man in the sin in the homosexual case. The underlying sin remains the same: going against god's design of procreation, Man and Woman , self-indulgence ect.