Is masturbation a sin?

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TheTruuf

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There's nothing wrong with masterbation. Think of it as practice for the real thing. You don't join a sports team and participate in a game without first going to practice, do you?
 

Shan Missions

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I saw a video clip of monkey masturbate. Interesting! How can animal know how to do masturbation? How can animal know how to have sexual intercourse? Who taught them? Nature? Their creator? Who gives us and them sexual organs? For what? Reproduction? To enjoy life? Why do sexual intercourse gives good feeling instead of bad feeling?I DON'T KNOW.
 

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"O Lord Grant me chastity and continence, but not yet.For I was afraid lest thou shouldst hear me too soon, and too sooncure me of my disease of lust which I desired to have satisfiedrather than extinguished."Saint Augustine written in confessions ( an excellent book)doesn't that just express what we feel about this sin perfectly.
 

lastsecman

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It is a sin. We are unable to conquer it by ourselves. We need to BELIEVE that by the power of His spirit He'd be able to help us stop our sinful habit.Question: Do we need to fight the urge to masturbate? No. Because if you feel you must fight the urge then you'd normally do the opposite. Because in the Bible it says 'For what we want to do we do it not, but what we dont want to do we do it. Therefore it is the sin within us that makes us do those things'. Therefore to overcome it we may only rely upon the power of God's Holy Spirit. Is masturbation a sin? YES. How do we stop doing it? By believing in God's power of His holy spirit that He'd be able to help you stop your sinful habit.Lord Jesus Christ is God Himself in human flesh form, blessed is He
 

josh55plus

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so you're saying that if i masturbate while thinking about my calculus homework that i am sinning? i think NOT!
 

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Josh you are so wrong!!!Read most of these post,they give great reasons why,I don't feel like restating mine,but read!!!
 

JonJT

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I think that website is trying to justify the satisfaction of sexual desire outside of marriage in Gods eyes. I think God meant for sex to be vaginal only (no anal), to occur only between a married man and a married woman and possibly only for the purposes of procreation (as in no birth control) although I'm not sure about that last one. Sexual desires are probably the most difficult type of sin to deal with, I can surely attest to that. But I think we should pray to God that he help us see the shallowness of sex and sexual actions and to turn away from them. What is sex without love and marriage? It is abomination! But what is love and marriage without sex? It is good! This should almost be a non-issue both in and outside of marriage especially since the foundation of a marriage should be the love between the man and the woman. I would hope married couples derive far more piece and satisfaction from living, breathing, studying the word and sharing knowledge with each other than from the sexual aspect of their relationship. I long for those things far more than for "good sex", even though I do struggle with sexual desires.
 

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Onan was killed because he was supposed to get his dead brother's widow pregnant so that it could inherit what his brother left. Onan didn't want that and refused to do as ordered, and that is why God killed him.What Onan did had nothing to do with masturbation but with "coitus-interruptus". It was disobedience just like Adam and Eve. There is nothing in the Bible that says that self-pleasure in that manner is a sin. It can become sin when done to excess--just as anything can. Eating can become sin when it turns into gluttony.
I have to agree with you there J.M. I haven't found the word masturbation in the bible either, as for it being a sin I think the jury is still out on that one, but if it is, who among us has not at one time engaged in the act, especially in our teen age years, If it is considered a sin I don't believe it is anymore of a sin then telling a lie and who among us has never told a lie and forgot to repent of it? I know I haven't.....Ray
 

Shan Missions

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I have to agree with you there J.M. I haven't found the word masturbation in the bible either, as for it being a sin I think the jury is still out on that one, but if it is, who among us has not at one time engaged in the act, especially in our teen age years, If it is considered a sin I don't believe it is anymore of a sin then telling a lie and who among us has never told a lie and forgot to repent of it? I know I haven't.....Ray
It will be interesting to do a survey to see how many percent of adult males have done and have not done masturbation at least once in their life time?Just curious!
 

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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...?
yes in most cases it is sin. if one does not know what sin is why would they need Jesus their only savior from sin?proper sex is between a man and his wife any deviation from this is sin .a simple verse would be ."the two shall become one"now about the verese about spilling the seed.you can look it up in the online version of the popular bible commentary athttp://www.kretzmannproject.org/
 

lastsecman

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Is masturbation a sin? YES. How do we stop doing it? By believing in God's power of His holy spirit that He'd be able to help you stop your sinful habit.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------More correctly speaking, we need to feel more of God's love.Because only love can make a person repent.
 

DrBubbaLove

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I suppose if it were true that giving in to our baser nature and urges prevents us from sinning further then there might be a point there. Personally found the opposite to be true. The satisfaction is temporary and ultimately merely leads one to seek more rather than less. Also makes it that much harder to resist greater temptations to give in to our baser nature/urges. It is not like it is something we cannot live without or something that we cannot possibly avoid doing. We can, and yes it is difficult. Have also found myself a reverse correlation, in that masturbation is not typically the first sin being committed, but rather the result of giving in to other sins in a series leading up to it. Whether that is lustful thoughts, pornography, softporn (most movies today), a particular tv show, magazine, or even activity (girls beach volleyball). If something cannot be done without leaving one with such an uncontrollable urge, then perhaps one should consider not doing that.In my experience if we can avoid activities which present the occasion for sin, whatever our particular weakness may be, then it is much easier to avoid the sin itself. That is why it has never been a good idea to let boy/girl go driving off in the car with no one else responsible along with them. One also eventually gets really tired of confessing this sin to a Priest, which helps avoidance too!
 

Catholic Crusader

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CCC 2352: ......."Both the Magisterium of the Church, in the course of a constant tradition, and the moral sense of the faithful have been in no doubt and have firmly maintained that masturbation is an intrinsically and gravely disordered action" (CDF, Persona humana 9). "The deliberate use of the sexual faculty, for whatever reason, outside of marriage is essentially contrary to its purpose." For here sexual pleasure is sought outside of "the sexual relationship which is demanded by the moral order and in which the total meaning of mutual self-giving and human procreation in the context of true love is achieved" (CDF, Persona humana 9).To form an equitable judgment about the subjects' moral responsibility and to guide pastoral action, one must take into account the affective immaturity, force of acquired habit, conditions of anxiety, or other psychological or social factors that can lessen, if not even reduce to a minimum, moral culpability.source:Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2352
 

bigdummy

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Ok People lets stick to Is masterbation a sin??????????Every one like to avoid this question. Come onnnnnnnnn!!!!!!
I think most people choose to avoid this question Crooner because it hits home for 99% of the male population and the other 1% probably lies about it, Only God would know about the percentage of women guilty of this act but I would assume it to be pretty high. At any rate I do believe it to be a sin in the eyes of God, (and one I have to admit I commited many time in my youth and occasionally after my marriage) based on the fact I cannot see myself doing it if Jesus was in the room with me when I decided to do it.Most of what I do I try to look to Christ and ask myself "Ray, would you be doing this if Jesus was here with you?" If the answer is NO! then the end result would probably be sinfull, as sin is determined to be anything that is contrary to the will of God. However I have found no direct statement in the bible that directly forbids it. I know that when ever the question comes up the legalistic Christians love to bring up the story of Onan and his brothers wife, but if you reread the passage in the bible you will find that God killed Onan for not fullfilling the law He gave to Moses to preserve the line of his chosen people and not for the spilling his seed outside of the place designed for it.I look at it this way, masturbation probably would save millions of teenagers from having unwanted babies every year do to fornication and probably keep a few hundred catholic priests from molesting children as they would loose the lust they frequently have after preforming the act on their self, this may sound like I endorse mastrubation and I don't but sense I find no restriction to it spelled out plainly in the bible I am saying that although I agree it may be a sin, and we all sin (try keeping the Ten Commandments) it is less than child abuse or fathering unwanted children. When I have mastered the ability to keep from preforming all of the clearly spelled out sins I know displease God then I'll start to worry about what some call "self abuse"
 

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Some of the poster's on this thread have said they are against masturbation. What if you are in a situation like my sister and her husband. For the last ten years she has been totally bed ridden, unable to do anything for herself. She is also having to be tube fed. She can no longer have sex. Her husband loves her very much and has normal human desires towards her. He uses masturbation to control those desires as he doesn't want to end up committing adultery. He uses masturbation when the sexual drive gets to hard to endure. He ALWAYS AND ONLY ever thinks of my sister during this time. I don't think he is doing anything wrong in this situation. My first question is: are you saying he is sinning in this situation? The second question is: what is he supposed to do instead? My third is: do you think any male/female could go ten years with a loved spouse and never want to make love?
 

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Interesting thread,I am a christian prayed the sinners prayer and asked Jesus into my life,since I preyed that prayer I have noticed I have more will power now over a lot of things,I have stopped drinking,also stopped smoking and stopped taking Ecstasy + Cannibas,I also have stopped swearing compleatly...While I have managed to stop all this I still cant resist looking at porn allthough I look at it a lot less now since become a christain before I would look at porn every day and embarrased to say but would masterbate every day maybe some days 2 times a day....I am really trying to keep away from it but it is very hard....I have not masterbated now for 1 week exactly allthough today I did look at porn which is still a very bad sin,I did withold from masterbating but was close to giving in...Can I ask a question regarding this as I have asked Jesus into my life it says in the bible you are saved,well in times of my temptation where I go back to look at porn,if christ came back would I go to heaven,surely God wont keep forgiving me every time I do something wrong...
 

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Some of the poster's on this thread have said they are against masturbation. What if you are in a situation like my sister and her husband. For the last ten years she has been totally bed ridden, unable to do anything for herself. She is also having to be tube fed. She can no longer have sex. Her husband loves her very much and has normal human desires towards her. He uses masturbation to control those desires as he doesn't want to end up committing adultery. He uses masturbation when the sexual drive gets to hard to endure. He ALWAYS AND ONLY ever thinks of my sister during this time. I don't think he is doing anything wrong in this situation. My first question is: are you saying he is sinning in this situation? The second question is: what is he supposed to do instead? My third is: do you think any male/female could go ten years with a loved spouse and never want to make love?
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
 
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