Why is pornography so bad?

[JosephsDreams]

[TABLE="class: yiv2737407267head-wrap, width: 641"]
[TR]
[TD]By Hank Hannegraaf

[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
[TABLE="class: yiv2737407267body-wrap, width: 641"]
[TR]
[TD][TABLE="width: 600"]
[TR]
[TD]What's the Problem with Pornography? (Part One of Two)

"You have heard that it was said, 'You shall not commit adultery.' But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart."​

—the Lord Jesus (Matthew 5:27–28 ESV)

​

Sexually explicit images are as near as the click of a mouse. Consequently, pornography has become pandemic. As Joe Dallas has aptly noted, pornography is not only an enslaving addiction and a violation of marriage vows, but a precursor to increasingly dangerous and degrading sexual practices.

First, pornography is an addictive behavior that enslaves the mind and conditions users to view others as mere objects of self-gratification.

As such, our Lord warns us to guard our gaze: "The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!" (Matthew 6:22-23).

Furthermore, pornography breaks the sacred bond of marriage and, as such, tears apart the very fabric of society. Moreover, when pornographic images are used to satisfy sexual desire, a marriage partner is defrauded.

In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus rendered lustful visual encounters the moral equivalent of extramarital sexual relations (Matthew 5:28).

For further engagement, see the article by Joe Dallas, "Darkening Our Minds: The Problem of Pornography among Christians,"

And to help those caught up in pornography to abandon that behavior once and for all, see Joe Dallas's wonderful book, The Game Plan: The Men's 30-Day Strategy for Attaining Sexual Integrity[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]

 

[Willie-T]

Sadly, this book is more of the same. The same that I once also taught, and just does not work.

This book (and Joe's tape series) misses just what so many other strategies have missed. They strongly advocate avoidance, abstinence, accountability, and the like. All good actions. But it misses the one basic thing that we all need. The very basis of becoming a Christian in the first place.

He doesn't even entertain the need to change the way you think about yourself, and more importantly, how you think about women.

In the decades I have been teaching classes on this subject, I have found only one book that has attacked this killer from the proper perspective...... and it is not this one.

 

[TheHolyHeathen]

If we neither marry nor give in marriage in heaven, I don't see porn being sinful there.

 

[Zi]

There won't be porn. or a need for it

If we neither marry nor give in marriage in heaven, I don't see porn being sinful there.

 

[Conversationand]

Sadly, this book is more of the same. The same that I once also taught, and just does not work.

This book (and Joe's tape series) misses just what so many other strategies have missed. They strongly advocate avoidance, abstinence, accountability, and the like. All good actions. But it misses the one basic thing that we all need. The very basis of becoming a Christian in the first place.

He doesn't even entertain the need to change the way you think about yourself, and more importantly, how you think about women.

In the decades I have been teaching classes on this subject, I have found only one book that has attacked this killer from the proper perspective...... and it is not this one.

Agreed. Don't treat the symptoms treat the source. Purity towards Christ and "those who love me will keep my commands" are far greater motivators than a porn filter or an accountability partner or even a "neglected" wife, much in the same way a desire to keep oneself pure for a future spouse doesn't do most Christians much good.

 

[Dino246]

Well, the gravedigger is banned. He got an earful in his first thread, and obviously didn't learn a (deleted) thing. He dug up at least one other thread along with this one and the one he started. I shake my head.

 

[EJS1023]

Sadly, this book is more of the same. The same that I once also taught, and just does not work.

This book (and Joe's tape series) misses just what so many other strategies have missed. They strongly advocate avoidance, abstinence, accountability, and the like. All good actions. But it misses the one basic thing that we all need. The very basis of becoming a Christian in the first place.

He doesn't even entertain the need to change the way you think about yourself, and more importantly, how you think about women.

In the decades I have been teaching classes on this subject, I have found only one book that has attacked this killer from the proper perspective...... and it is not this one.

Please share the title of this book. I know the Bible will help, but as a single man feel even more condemn by the following: Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. I Corinthians 7:2
Just feel like to have a woman, I need to be more pure, but this is not what the verse seems to teach. Not to mention been way to long since I was in a relationship with a gal.

 

[GOP]

Why is pornography so bad? It's bad because it is contrary to GOD'S WORD.
It destroyed marriages.

 

[MrChris]

If we neither marry nor give in marriage in heaven, I don't see porn being sinful there.

Windows eternal edition.