as i have posted my best friend was in a horrible car wreck a drunk T-boned her car she is now in a coma. now the question i have is could God meant for this happen i have had a horrible addiction to porn and maybe this is Gods way of punishing me for my addiction to porn
God does not send consequences for sin on others. He sends them on us:
1Co 11:28 But a man must examine himself, and in so doing he is to eat of the bread and drink of the cup. 29 For he who eats and drinks, eats and drinks judgment to himself if he does not judge the body rightly. 30 For this reason many among you are weak and sick, and a number sleep. 31 But if we judged ourselves rightly, we would not be judged. 32 But when we are judged, we are disciplined by the Lord so that we will not be condemned along with the world.
The point is this. Weakness, sickness, physical death ... these are the things that are God's personal judgment on Christians that do not judge themselves properly. Not someone else's weakness, sickness or death. And it's only the physical body, and not the soul or it wouldn't use the term "sleep". For a further illustration of this read 1 Cor. 5.
Also, while the bible doesn't say one word about our modern word for pornography, even though Roman art was full of it, and it was popular throughout bible times even in the O.T.. Not to mention Solomon and his 1000 wives he not only saw naked but had children with. You will notice that there are no passages about what he did being wrong, other than that he took foreign wives.
Adultery doesn't have the same definition we have in our modern world either. That is why David could have 6 wives and kids with 5 of them BEFORE committing adultery. Nowadays, if I take a second wife, everyone would call it adultery. Oddly, in God's reproof of David through the profit, God says that He was the one who gave David even the wives of his enemies, and that He would have gladly given David many more if only he hadn't committed adultery.
Fornication, or pornea which is the Greek word for fornication, is unlawful sexual intercourse, and only that. It includes Adultery, pre-marital intercourse, homosexual intercourse and bestiality. Our modern word pornography is derived from that root word. Trying to apply the modern meaning back into scripture doesn't work though. For example, the word pneumatic(Air powered) is a modern word made from the Greek root Pneuma. In scripture it is the word used for the Holy Spirit. To go backwards and shove the meaning of pneumatic into scripture results in the Holy Spirit being powered by air, and we could ask questions like, how long is the Holy Spirit's air hose? How many cubic feet of air per minute does it take to operate a Holy Spirit. All adultery is pornea, or fornication. Fornication includes all of the unlawful sexual intercourse categories though.
One more thing, the passage that states:
Mat 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.
has the following meaning. The word woman is the only possible word for married woman. Adultery can ONLY happen with a woman who is already married to a different living man than yourself. That's the biblical meaning. (Note: fornication, a married man with an unmarried woman not his wife, was still a sin, but it was not adultery. he gained another wife with no possibility of divorce. If she was married to another living man, it was adultery, and they were both stoned to death.) You will notice that the word for adultery is used, which fits with the married woman part. The word for look is to intently gaze, and in this verse, it is to gaze intently while dwelling on committing adultery with her in mind. While God could have used the word for maid(unmarried) and the word fornication(pornea), and thus included premarital intercourse along with adultery in the meaning, God / Jesus did not do so. Keep n mind that this was not adultery, but committing it with her in your mind. From the passage Jesus is discussing the prerequisites for these sins, i.e. if you never sit in a room and dwell on thoughts of lust while looking at another man's wife, you will never commit adultery. If you never think certain things you will never commit murder ... In other words, this passage REQUIRES you to be in the same room. You couldn't do what is written in this passage any other way.
These are just the facts. It also explains why Solomon is never accused of committing any fornication at all. The reason is, he never committed that sin.
All this being said, whatever is not from faith is sin. If you believe playing cards is a sin, it is for you. if you believe bowling is a sin, it is. If you believe that you have to touch your nose every hour or it is sin, and you miss an hour, you sinned. That's just the way it is. What it is you believe doesn't matter. Truth or not. Even if there is no teaching at all in scripture about it, even if it is all made up, if you still believe it is sin, it is sin for you.
Hopefully this clears up a few things, and makes God / His word more consistent for you. I am quite sure that there will be some who don't want to verify all of the scriptures and meanings of words and see if what I have said is true or not, and will just want to condemn me. All I can say is, I understand. Before I did a thorough study and put everything together so that everything fit with everything else, I believed as you do now. There is a big difference between proving your beliefs true using scripture and continuously proving all things over and over again and altering your beliefs to fit what is true/good.
