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NASB	Matthew 5:28 but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
AMPLIFIED 2015	Matthew 5:28 but I say to you that everyone who [so much as] looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

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Subject: is masterbation wrong

Bible Note: "If masturbation causes you to do other things, that are sins, such as adultrey, lust, etc... then it itself becomes a
sin."

This sounds great!

The problem I see with this is that you have established that masturbation of itself is not wrong... basically it is the same premise as: "I am only thinking about killing so it is ok because I am not really killing anyone in the physical plane.

But the struggle is not in the corporial but in the spiritual other wise Jesus would not had had to exact that "desire in thought" was sin!

When a person has sex he/she is thinking about the act of coupling... when a person masturbate he/she is thinking of not coupling but of releasing a nervous tension?

The act in itself is designed by desire (lust) for someone other then oneself in a sexual content... how can it not be pleasuring ourselves mentally? "if you desire (think/lust) in your mind you have sinned" (paraphrased).

Bear in mind that I am not Christ, therefore I am just as much a sinner as the next person... my understanding of the Scriptures do not have to be accepted; Christ's Word is exacting--even when seeming ambiguous or indirect.

God Bless!

Angel