Question: "Masturbation - is it a sin according to the Bible?"
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J
I won't give you flack for this,you are absolutely correct,masturbation in whatever form is nothing more than forcing your body to feel aroused,and it's really better to keep from it,because I may as well admit I have found that it becomes a crutch and hurtful problem,because it stimulates a person to where you have to use the bathroom more frequently temporarily and actually can be physically painful,and can even effect sleeping,I had barely any moral upbringing practically so I unfortunately got lead by immoral people in my life to seek pornography and led me down the road of masturbation,and it is a pain,because just like any drug,it haunts and gets you craving foolishness,before I came completely to God,I even went overboard with that stuff,and so now in today's time after so many years of willingly delighting in that junk,I now constantly have to tell myself,"don't think about that stuff,focus on God."
I even now installed a program to block myself from explicit content in the hopes that I can just forget that junk.
Because just one thought sometimes can get me spiralling backwards so hopefully by God's grace I'll no longer even think on this,because I have a future in mind that I really believe in and don't want to lose it because of such explicit habits.
God deserves better than that and so does whom a person seeks a future with.
I even now installed a program to block myself from explicit content in the hopes that I can just forget that junk.
Because just one thought sometimes can get me spiralling backwards so hopefully by God's grace I'll no longer even think on this,because I have a future in mind that I really believe in and don't want to lose it because of such explicit habits.
God deserves better than that and so does whom a person seeks a future with.
J
If you're dreaming about your wife it's probably OK. 
I cannot believe masturbation can happen without the person lusting...
People should not seek to have their sin declared not to be sin and thus resist the Will of God.. The Atonement of the LORD Jesus Christ has all these sins covered for those who believe the Word of God and trust in the Atonement Jesus has served for their forgiveness.
If people declare their sin to be good then they have loved unrighteousness..
People should not seek to have their sin declared not to be sin and thus resist the Will of God.. The Atonement of the LORD Jesus Christ has all these sins covered for those who believe the Word of God and trust in the Atonement Jesus has served for their forgiveness.
If people declare their sin to be good then they have loved unrighteousness..
When you say "astral projection", I think of the movie The Men Who Stare At Goats and governments attempting to find underground bunkers by having "psychics" navigate the word by writing down phrases in sealed envelopes.
I will talk about "lucid dreaming" whenever I feel like in front of whoever I want because I've been having dreams like this since I was 5 and know they are true, so whoever these people who don't believe in them are, they are simply wrong and haven't experienced one themselves.
I don't say any chants, commit a blood sacrifice, or pray to demons for a dream I'm consciously aware of, I go to sleep like I do any other night and sometimes I'm aware of the transition into a dream, or sometimes I say "hey, this isn't right, oh I'm dreaming!" and then it picks up from there.
There is nothing evil or occult about recognizing the dream isn't reality and being aware of it, anyone who takes issue with this are probably those people who dream in black and white or don't even remember them to begin with. I'd rather upset these people than silence myself about the innocent truth.
I will talk about "lucid dreaming" whenever I feel like in front of whoever I want because I've been having dreams like this since I was 5 and know they are true, so whoever these people who don't believe in them are, they are simply wrong and haven't experienced one themselves.
I don't say any chants, commit a blood sacrifice, or pray to demons for a dream I'm consciously aware of, I go to sleep like I do any other night and sometimes I'm aware of the transition into a dream, or sometimes I say "hey, this isn't right, oh I'm dreaming!" and then it picks up from there.
There is nothing evil or occult about recognizing the dream isn't reality and being aware of it, anyone who takes issue with this are probably those people who dream in black and white or don't even remember them to begin with. I'd rather upset these people than silence myself about the innocent truth.
It's pretty normal. It just means you're aware of what you're doing in a dream (and like you said, being aware that it is a dream). The vast majority of the time, being in a dream state does not prevent me from knowing right from wrong and choosing between the two.
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Sometimes it was really painful to me which freaked me out, but I do the same staying calm is the best way for it to stop. It's weird though when someone in the real world notices something is wrong and might be saying to you "are you OK?", and you can hear them in the dream and you are trying to tell them NO!
Yes i think there is an element of that kind of thinking going on..
I also think some have a works salvation based mentality where they think they must by self discipline stop sinning.. They find that they cannot stop sinning a certain sin and so when they hear some doctrine / preaching that puts forward that their sin is not actually sinning they desperately reach out for it and adopt that false doctrine because if their sin is no longer sin then they can cling onto the delusion that they can once again achieve salvation by Works..
I also think some have a works salvation based mentality where they think they must by self discipline stop sinning.. They find that they cannot stop sinning a certain sin and so when they hear some doctrine / preaching that puts forward that their sin is not actually sinning they desperately reach out for it and adopt that false doctrine because if their sin is no longer sin then they can cling onto the delusion that they can once again achieve salvation by Works..