Is masturbation a sin?

Its interesting that they are referred to as adulterers, which means He was speaking to married individuals. So if a single person lusts, presumably it is fornication, then. Well, at least, in the heart. I've heard it said that lust isn't just a simple appreciation of what you see, but if no one else was around you'd partake in the act with them (as if you could get away with it, no repercussions).

Since those words aren't commonly used much any more and the bible dosn't clearly define the difference between the two it is only my opinion the fornication is simply having sex while adultery is having multiple partners. Why else would marring a divorced person or getting remarried after a divorce both be adultery??

No true Christian abuses Christ as a license to sin

the Bible is very clear for the two Fornication is sex outside the context of marriage.
Adultery is sexual relationship with some other then the wife or husband when they are married

I drink 4-6 cups of coffee every day because they make me feel good, is that a sin? probably, I'm not going to get twisted into a knot over it. Or go crucify myself because I've been divorced over 30 years and the only person that there is to have sex with is me.

I go along with most of that but getting remarried or marring another who was married before is also adultery, as well as having sex with someone who is married to another.

well for some of us who have never even had a pleasant experience with sex, not once, nothing fulfilling from sex, nothing but intense pain associated with sex and have reached their mid 30s to be incredibly lonely without almost any friends and zero prospects of getting married at any point in the foreseeable future, masturbation provides the only small bit of relief to what is incredibly painful sexual frustration. And for anyone who wishes to condemn me for that I'd like to ask how much of your life have you spent in solitude? How many happy relationships had you been in by the age of 34? Were you married by that age? How many years of your life have you gone without a moment of feeling attractive or desired by any woman, while at the same time finding love and companionship remains the #1 desire of your heart, always a source of pain? I have had little sexual experience-- and I'm not proud of it and would have no qualms erasing that from my past. But other than a few regrettable sexual experiences, I have nothing from my own life to supply any concrete reference to the profound power of what intimacy is. I have never been promiscuous and never wanted to be, have no interest in casual sex.
I want love. It's the only thing I want from this life.
Sex without love is meaningless. But a life without any love as well as the other thing-- guess what, it's pretty sad and depressing. And I've heard every pep talk before about how ok it is to be alone and how I don't anyone to be happy and blah blah blah. I haven't met too many men or women who were never married by age 34 and who wanted to be. I don't have any fantasies in my mind involving myself having sex either. Masturbation has never had anything to do with that. Because the thought of something like that is more removed from my reality than the garbage depicted in porn. Yes porn is a problem and so is the other thing. But what's killing me inside is the loneliness. The lack of connection. The lack of possibilities. Now I already hear the "Get off your butt and do something" response coming. Please don't assume you know the story about someone before you have developed any curiosity of understanding it.
You think I wanted my life to be this way. You think I wanted to reach the point where the only association I have with sex is through lonely self-treatment? I didn't choose to want something that has eluded me for 34 years and seems impossible to have. I didn't choose to be a sensitive and intense man who doesn't embody the qualities of the 'common man.' I didn't choose the way my hormones work or the fact that sexual desire is a powerfully driving force. And I don't look for meaningless sex, which I probably wouldn't find anyways, for the purpose of tempering this famished, aching urge. Only God may judge me.
Frankly if I had no hormones, if I were just a eunuch living in a monastery it would be less different than my circumstances as they are, except for the suffering endured due to perennial deprivation and isolation.
You can tell me all you want about the evils of masturbation. I could tell you about the suicidal suffering of severe loneliness and an adulthood devoid of any love or intimate relationships. Loneliness kills, making yourself have an orgasm doesn't. I didn't choose to be lonely and I didn't choose for loneliness to hurt as much as it does.

I think most us have adulterous hearts. That's just another reason why we all need Jesus.

there is nothing in the bible that says drinking coffee is a sin but getting drunk there is.

secondly if you think having sex with yourself is sex that is not sex at all. That is self -gratification.


Definition of masturbation
: erotic stimulation especially of one's own genital organs commonly resulting in orgasm and achieved by manual or other bodily contact exclusive of sexual intercourse, by instrumental manipulation , occasionally by sexual fantasies,

masturbation is : erotic stimulation, manipulation, and sexual fantasies. NONE of that is sex.

Lust is not a sin. Lust is a temptation.

"But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire.
Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death."
James 1:15

Of course, people must limit their desires and other temptations, not to play with them or enlarge them. Its like a fire and they will lose in the end.

But honestly, there are some fundamental truths I think you have yet to embrace or understand. The primary truth being that ANOTHER PERSON is NOT going to make you happy or fill in the void in your life. At best, it would be only a TEMPORARY drop in a very deep bucket to make you FEEL less empty.

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Back in the decade of the 1970s-- before personal computing and the
internet --I used to stop in at a 7-11 convenience store every morning on
my way to work. Back then, naughty magazines were right out in front of
the counter before it became illegal to display them like that.

I remarked to the clerk that I was puzzled why men didn't get married
instead of resorting to naughty magazines to satisfy their longings. He
answered: Some men are buying the magazines because they're married.

I hadn't thought of that angle, but I'm pretty sure the clerk was right
because internet porn is very popular with married men; even Christian
married men. In point of fact; internet porn has become so prevalent that
some churches are offering counseling for Christian men that they say
are "addicted" to porn.

Personally, I rather suspect that internet porn is keeping quite a few men
home at night instead of out cruising bars for chicks. In point of fact, I'd even
go so far as to suggest that there are a number of marriages that internet porn
is helping to save rather than wreck. So let's not be too quick to condemn
men into porn who are stuck with wives that leave them frustrated, desperate,
and unfulfilled.
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Anyone needs to control themselves whether married or not, foreign or not.

Well yes they do, but then they are no longer christians.

Its interesting that they are referred to as adulterers, which means He was speaking to married individuals. So if a single person lusts, presumably it is fornication, then. Well, at least, in the heart. I've heard it said that lust isn't just a simple appreciation of what you see, but if no one else was around you'd partake in the act with them (as if you could get away with it, no repercussions).