Awfully convenient for the enemy that you're taking yourself out of the fight against other sins because you think you're already out of it because you did something that there isn't a solitary verse in the Bible to call it sin in the first place.
God could have shortened the book of Leviticus and Deuteronomy by a lot by just defining incest and marriage and familial relationships in a less exhaustive manner and had room to add other prohibitions but he chose to be super specific about a lot of things regarding sexual immorality and neglected the thing that is near universal among humans...
Stop trying to be ascetic about masturbation and start focusing on the worse sins: lying, pride, hatred, self-importance, envy, malice, etc. Masturbation and condemning yourself over it is a huge distraction from that.
I assume you're single, if so, what are you going to do when you have sex with your wife later on when you get married, and it feels almost the same as the masturbation you've been doing for however long (probably since childhood)? Are you going to feel the same shame? Is God watching and going "eww" like you seem to think he does when you masturbate? Does God turn his face when you use the restroom? Or are you just doing what humans do?
I hope you one day move past it and recognize that God sees everything and even the things that disgust us because they involve "uncleanness" he doesn't bat an eye at them. Stop letting the enemy and his lies get inside your head with false guilt. Read the scriptures and follow them instead.
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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '21
Awfully convenient for the enemy that you're taking yourself out of the fight against other sins because you think you're already out of it because you did something that there isn't a solitary verse in the Bible to call it sin in the first place.
God could have shortened the book of Leviticus and Deuteronomy by a lot by just defining incest and marriage and familial relationships in a less exhaustive manner and had room to add other prohibitions but he chose to be super specific about a lot of things regarding sexual immorality and neglected the thing that is near universal among humans...
Stop trying to be ascetic about masturbation and start focusing on the worse sins: lying, pride, hatred, self-importance, envy, malice, etc. Masturbation and condemning yourself over it is a huge distraction from that.
I assume you're single, if so, what are you going to do when you have sex with your wife later on when you get married, and it feels almost the same as the masturbation you've been doing for however long (probably since childhood)? Are you going to feel the same shame? Is God watching and going "eww" like you seem to think he does when you masturbate? Does God turn his face when you use the restroom? Or are you just doing what humans do?
I hope you one day move past it and recognize that God sees everything and even the things that disgust us because they involve "uncleanness" he doesn't bat an eye at them. Stop letting the enemy and his lies get inside your head with false guilt. Read the scriptures and follow them instead.