Subject: 2 followups, masturbation and 1Cor7:2-5 |
Bible Note: Binyah, It is also a known scientific fact that a woman's desire increases and peaks at the date of ovulation. As the woman has her menstral period the man has nocturnal emmisions. And masturbastion is not a sin confined to men. It, like all sin, is conceived in the heart brought to full fruit in the flesh. But as Jesus said a man who lusts in his heart has already sinned. As for healthy adult males unaffected by the saturation of sexual images in our society, they don't exist. The whole point of such ads and propaganda is to affect healthy adult and adolescent males. Jesus lived in a time when these were not present and was still aware of the lust that grows out of our fallen nature. The issues here, as I see it, is not about mastubation or sexual sin in and of itself. But rather the tendency we all have to rationalize the sins we struggle with and deny they are sin because they are the common practices of many. The common practices of many are often just the sins common to all men and women. My mother used to refer to the Ten Commandments as the top ten list af mankind's favorite activities. It is holiness and conforming ourselves to Christ that goes against our natural tendencies because holiness is not natural, but supernatural and lifts us from our fallen state. And that requires supernatural grace, because we can not do it on our own. The fact is that in all areas of our lives we naturally tend to fall short of holiness and we often look for excuses to explain why we are not sinners, rather than admit we are, that we have stumbled again, and once more pick up our cross and follow after Jesus. This does not imply a lack of sympathy for or understanding of the sinner. The Lord and everyone around me knows that I am a sinner myself. God has compassion for the sinner. But His compassion is too great to leave the sinner in his sin. Rather, he makes the sinner acknowlege his sin, and call for God's assistance. Then God lifts him up from his sin and gives the sinner grace for the journey to holiness under the burden of the cross he is bidden by the Lord Jesus to take up. I think our conversation has run its course since they have restricted this thread. God be with you, Emmaus |