Young Christian Girl Struggling with Pornography

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There are 600something rules in the bible, of which lust in certain situations is one. Of which the bible pretty much teaches us to 1. stay true to your partner and 2. hands off other people's partners. Fair enough I think...

 

More so than the bible being a book of rules it is a book of forgiveness. We are pretty much born in sin, and just yesterday celebrated to be released from it. Nowhere in the bible it says you have to or are even expected to stay true to all 600something rules. Just stay true to Him... that's all that really matters.

 

What i find offensive is to attack the religion of a girl of which most of the posts in this thread consist, struggling with masturbation. Nice destructive instead of contructive advice giving... Kudo's to your enlightened, open minded, non judgemental mindset *sarcasm*

[Ronni_W]

I'll agree, the whole thing is unreasonable by todays standards. I've struggled with this a lot, and it was a huge reason I stepped away from Christianity. But, now that I want to re-establish a relationship with Christ, I am willing to suffer, and find a way to discipline my brain to defuse urges when they sprout up.

Jesus' mission and message was NOT that we have to suffer to attain our Oneness with him - or, more accurately, our oneness with the Christ Consciousness. Exposing the graven images of Christ.

His suffering, which really was one day in his life and 3-year mission, is only the major focus of organizations that what to keep their (global) congregation enslaved, including through this idea that they need to suffer. (And the other biggie, is that we need the organization in order to attain our Oneness with God and with Christ.)

 

What I learned recently is that human sexuality is NOT God-given but only became necessary after the fall - prior that, humans procreated in a different manner. Therefore, we can misqualify God's Energy (Light) even through married sex. (Who the eff knew that??? I surely did not.)

 

But it is misqualified Energy that the dark forces require to survive...since they do not (or cannot) receive (or use) pure God-energy directly. And THAT is why we need to be careful with our sexual energy/activity...so that we will not create openings and opportunities for dark forces to receive Light or enter our energy fields.

 

This link also contains a link for transmuting sexual energy. AscendedMastersAnswers - Sexuality

Edited January 2, 2015 by Ronni_W
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[Trimmer]

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+5%3A28&version=ESV

The OP is a female, and on the presumption that she is not homosexual (I think then, she'd have an even bigger issue with her church), then I would have to imagine that her desire is leading her to look at men. Doesn't this put her in the clear with respect to Matthew 5:28?

[Robert Z]

Exactly, many Christians are dedicated to the church but they do not live by the word of God. And that is what I am beginning to do right now unfortunately and I really really want to stop because I truly do feel in my heart that I am not being true to my beliefs.

 

The bible condemns lustful thinking and this what porn causes me to do. Masturbation as well. There's nothing wrong with desire. It is natural to desire someone. However, acting on that desire (outside of marriage, according to my bible) is wrong. And I believe that God condemns lustful thoughts because He knows that thinking those thoughts is extremely likely to cause us to act on them. Like the saying goes: "Where the mind goes, the body follows".

 

And I should add that ever since I started watching porn, I am far more tempted than I ever was to engage in pre-marital sex.

 

Damn right!!! And you had better watch out for these as well! But you might want to pick up some slaves. There is nothing in the Bible against slavery.

 

Food and drink

• Consuming blood (Genesis 9:4), Leviticus 17:10[sIZE=2][10][/sIZE]
  
• Eating a cheeseburger or anything that mixes meat and dairy (Exodus 23:19)
  
• Sacrificing anything with yeast or honey (Leviticus 2:11)
  
• Eating leavened bread (bread with yeast) during the Feast of Unleavened Bread (Exodus 12:15)
  
• Eating fat (Leviticus 3:17)
  
• Eating pork (Leviticus 11:7-8)
  
• Waiting too long before consuming sacrifices (Leviticus 19:5-8)
  
• Eating aquatic creatures lacking fins or scales (Deuteronomy 14:9-10)
  
• Eating any meat not killed according to the kosher practice (Deuteronomy 12:21)
  
• Eating peace offerings while ritually unclean (Leviticus 7:20)
  

[edit] Religious

 

• Being a male who is not circumcised. (Genesis 17:14)
  
• Trying to convert people to another religion (Deuteronomy 13:1-11, Deuteronomy 18:20)[sIZE=2][11][/sIZE]
  
• Worshiping idols (Exodus 22:20, Leviticus 20:1-5, Deuteronomy 17:2-7)
  
• Practicing magic (Exodus 22:18)[sIZE=2][12][/sIZE]
  
• Blaspheming (Leviticus 24:14-16, 23)
  
• Breaking the Sabbath (Exodus 31:14, Numbers 15:32-36)
  
• Consulting a psychic or spiritualist (Leviticus 19:31)
  
• Being a psychic, medium or spiritualist (Leviticus 20:27)[sIZE=2][13][/sIZE]
  
• Being a town that believes in another, non-YHWH god (Deuteronomy 13:12-15)[sIZE=2][14][/sIZE]
  
• Giving one of your descendants to Molech (Leviticus 20:2)[sIZE=2][15][/sIZE]
  
• Not being a priest and going near the tabernacle when it is being moved (Numbers 1:51)
  
• Being a false prophet (Deuteronomy 13:5, Deuteronomy 18:20, Zechariah 13:2-3)
  
• Performing any work on the Sabbath (Exodus 20:10)
  
• Going to the temple in an unclean state (Numbers 19:13)
  
• Engaging in ritual animal sacrifices other than at the temple (Leviticus 17:1-9)
  
• Manufacturing anointing oil (Exodus 30:33)
  

[edit] Violent and legal crimes

 

• Murdering a slave (Exodus 21:26-27)[sIZE=2][16][/sIZE]
  
• Kidnapping and selling a man (Exodus 21:16)
  
• Perjuring yourself (in certain cases) (Deuteronomy 19:15-21)[sIZE=2][17][/sIZE]
  
• Ignoring the judgement of a judge or a priest (Deuteronomy 17:8-13)
  
• Not constraining a known dangerous bull, if the bull subsequently kills a man or a woman (Exodus 21:29)[sIZE=2][18][/sIZE]
  

[edit] Parenting

 

• Striking your parents (Exodus 21:15)
  
• Cursing your parents (Exodus 21:17, Leviticus 20:9)
  
• Being a stubborn, rebellious, profligate, and drunkard son (Deuteronomy 21:18-21)[sIZE=2][19][/sIZE]
  

[edit] Daily life

 

• Planting more than one kind of seed in a field (Leviticus 19:19)
  
• Wearing clothing woven of more than one kind of cloth (Leviticus 19:19)
  
• Cutting the hair on the sides of your head or clipping of the edges of your beard (Leviticus 19:27)[sIZE=2][20][/sIZE]
  
• Touching the dead carcass of a pig (Deuteronomy 14:8)
  
• Dressing across gender lines (Deuteronomy 22:5)
  

[edit] Things that don’t go anywhere else

 

• Living in a city that failed to surrender to the Israelites. (Deuteronomy 20:12-14)[sIZE=2][21][/sIZE]
  

[braindamage]

These are my thoughts, and my thoughts alone, but I feel as if you a little bit of dignity every time you cave into the urge.

 

I could easily extrapolate this rhetoric and apply it so sex between any arbitrary people - married or not. After all now you're just two people caving in to your animalistic desires and using each other as a masturbation tool. I have no idea why your sexual escapades are so righteous while they're only reaffirmed by someone who has the same weakness of the flesh as you do.

 

And that's why the entire aversion for human sexuality rooted in religion is such a nonsensical struggle. But by all means, if it alures to someone (OP?) Then knock yourself out.