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With all of these masturbation and sex threads, people on this forum are causing me to stumble. I've struggled with masturbation for 7 years, and being constantly reminded about this issue on Christian forums is urging my problem on even more.
As it says in 1 Corinthians 8, " 9 Be careful, however, that the exercise of your rights does not become a stumbling block to the weak. 10 For if someone with a weak conscience sees you, with all your knowledge, eating in an idol’s temple, won’t that person be emboldened to eat what is sacrificed to idols? 11 So this weak brother or sister, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge. 12 When you sin against them in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. 13 Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother or sister to fall into sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause them to fall."
Can we just stop posting these type of threads by asking if it's a sin or not? If you've never masturbated - great, don't start. If you do masturbate - listen to your convictions given to you by the Holy Spirit and read your Bible and pray about it. I'm sure I'm not the only person stumbling because of these threads.
You may say, "Well then don't look at those threads" or "don't view this forum". Well, it's kind of hard not to look at the threads when there's at least 3 of them in every category that you go to. And this issue isn't just within this forum, it's with almost every Christian forum that I look at. Can we be strong enough to be the first Christian forum to outlaw masturbation threads? Or at least stop posting them?
As it says in 1 Corinthians 8, " 9 Be careful, however, that the exercise of your rights does not become a stumbling block to the weak. 10 For if someone with a weak conscience sees you, with all your knowledge, eating in an idol’s temple, won’t that person be emboldened to eat what is sacrificed to idols? 11 So this weak brother or sister, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge. 12 When you sin against them in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. 13 Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother or sister to fall into sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause them to fall."
Can we just stop posting these type of threads by asking if it's a sin or not? If you've never masturbated - great, don't start. If you do masturbate - listen to your convictions given to you by the Holy Spirit and read your Bible and pray about it. I'm sure I'm not the only person stumbling because of these threads.
You may say, "Well then don't look at those threads" or "don't view this forum". Well, it's kind of hard not to look at the threads when there's at least 3 of them in every category that you go to. And this issue isn't just within this forum, it's with almost every Christian forum that I look at. Can we be strong enough to be the first Christian forum to outlaw masturbation threads? Or at least stop posting them?