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NASB | Romans 12:1 Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Romans 12:1 Therefore I urge you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies [dedicating all of yourselves, set apart] as a living sacrifice, holy and well-pleasing to God, which is your rational (logical, intelligent) act of worship. |
Subject: is masterbation a sin |
Bible Note: Thank you Azure, You will now see why I 'excluded' women and lowly sexed men. Neither can have the slightest knowledge of the extremly powerful urges that highly sexed men have. They can have a driving force which is virtually irresistible, and they go on and on and on relentlessly often destroying a man's usefulness, and very often resulting in actual pain and extreme discomfort. Now if we were talking about something specifically forbidden it would be one thing. My point is precisely that a wise God did not do so because He recognised the situation and need of special cases. Let me add another one. Here is a person with leukemia. As a result he has been infected with AIDS. As a result he cannot make love to his beloved wife. Can you perhaps tell me what the difference is between foreplay (which presumably you would not condemn) and masturbation with his wife in mind? There is little difference between the two. When we consider the emotions that foreplay arouse (and that is also never approved in Scripture, Song of Solomon notwithstanding) perhaps we should forbid that as well? Your article fits adequately the case of the young man considering the situation when he is unmarried. It overlooks totally the problems that I have described, and in fact hardly has them in mind, if at all. I would point out that the writer makes certain assumptions. How does he know what God designed sex for? Has he a direct line to God? And what I have described is in fact a bonding experience between man and wife. Is that not one reason why God 'designed' sex? That is why God gave us the Scriptures. It was that we may follow his will not men's ideas. especially in difficult questions like this. I have no intention of prolonging the subject. But until each one can give a satisfactory answer in their own hearts (not on the forum) to my questions I rest my case. In Him |