02-17-2009, 07:17 PM
Mad Dog Wrote:Lust and masturbation and sex and the moral quandary surrounding it is in my the five list of reasons why I am no longer a Christian. Coincidently it is also the reason why I spent five years being a Christian. I grew up on my old mans porn, became addicted to it monkey spanking. So this thread is of great interest to me. I asked my Baptist pastor, who was a young single man, point blank, after a prayer session he and I had if masturbation was a sin. He looked at me square in the eye and said yes it was. Crap.
Sort of going off of what I first posted about my thoughts on the subject...
I believe that the pastor who told you that is wrong. I feel that the act of masturbation itself isn't sinful, it's the lustful thoughts and desires that usually accompany the act that are, and I've heard similar viewpoints from quite a few other people within church settings.
I'm sure there are many churches and Christians who are more conservative, and would agree with your former pastor, and just leave it as a blanket statement that 'yes masturbation is sinful', but in my opinion, that's not correct.