Are these sins?

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Deadtosin

Deadtosin

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Masturbation without watching porn and without thinking about anyone else than just yourself and your own body

-Yes, it is a sin.



noun: lust
1.
very strong sexual desire.

1 John 2:16
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.


Hello, sister. Please hear me. When we choose to give in and act on our fleshly lusts they will grow in frequency. The more we watch, the more we do, the more our body begins to be bound by sin. Avoid these things and pray to our Heavenly Father for deliverance. "lead me not into temptation, but deliver me from evil."



Gambling and lottery
I personally play texas hold'em and I have a lottery ticket in my pocket. :) I believe that 10% of all my gain belongs to the Lord. I play hold'em for fun as well as a little extra income and I play the lottery in hopes that if I ever won I could travel the world on missions for the Lord. (that's just me though) I don't think sin is so much "what we do" but "why we do it."

Worrying- Trust God
Anxiety- Trust God- If you don't have enough trust then spend more time building your intimate relationship with Him. If it's a lack of faith, seek to find reasons to have more faith. Dr. Dino, Ian Mccormack, Josh Mcdowell, etc etc.

Depression- that will fade with more Jesus in your life.
Fearing- Changes with more Jesus in your life
Lying in emergency (for example, if a murderer is looking for your friend, you have to save your friends life by lying to the murderer, and also if someone is about to bully you, then you have to lie so they don't bully you)

Don't lie, you can choose to say nothing at all.

Are these things sins?

Some are, some are a lack of faith.
 
Deadtosin

Deadtosin

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Also, I would like to add. You will not be able to stop these things yourself. The lust, the fear, the anxiety. You will have to build your faith and your relationship with Jesus, He will do these works in you. If you are standing in front of a bully and you are frightened and nothing seems to make sense, do whatever you feel is best at the time. You are a work in progress (we all are) just make sure that you read your bible every day. You pray every day and you spend more time watching youtube videos and netflix videos that give Godly messages, or show evidence's of God. Let in the Light and He will push out the dark. - God bless your journey.
 
Torrence

Torrence

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(:D)

Sin is loving anything else more than the Lord. (Jeremiah 2:13)
Every sin is a matter of two evils: 1) Forsaking God, who is the fountain of life and love and joy and peace and everything good, and 2) Choosing instead something utterly broken and dark and horrible to try to fill our desires.

Masturbation - the desire is intimacy; it's forsaking and defiling God's beautiful design of marriage and choosing selfish gratification, leaving you lonely.
Gambling - the desire is worldly comfort; it's forsaking trust in God's provision and choosing selfish ambition, leaving you poor.

Are you starting to see the pattern? As far as anxiety, fearing, worrying, etc. the desire is usually comfort, or peace of mind, and the Bible says not to be anxious about anything, but to pray and trust God and you will find peace (Philippians 4:6-7). So it is a sin because you forsake trusting in God who is capable of anything and knows everything, and choose to rely on your own weak power and limited understanding, which is actually pride, and pride hinders you from seeking God (Psalm 10:4), which usually leads to other sins and ultimately Hell (Proverbs 16:18).

As for lying, in the case you mentioned, it's not trusting in God to control the situation, so lying is ALWAYS wrong.
Instead of lying, pray (not saying anything isn't lying so that helps too)


troubledgirl what I want you to know is that God demands perfection (James 2:10), and we have ALL fallen short of that requirement! (Romans 3:23). Because of that, we all deserve Hell.


We all rightly deserve Hell and God is still good if He did, because we earned Hell. (Romans 6:23) BUT GOD shows His perfect love for us in that He sent his ONLY SON to live a perfect life for us and then be SLAUGHTERED so that if we surrender our lives and everything in them to Christ, he will give us eternal life. (John 3:16)(Romans 5:6-8)

What you should do is go to a place to be alone with God and talk to Him, letting go of sin, and clinging to Christ crucified.
 
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Kerry

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The answer and the only answer is faith in the work of the cross and nothing else. If you place your faith in Jesus, deliverance will come. I can't say when, but it will come.
 
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