I know that they say as Christians you shouldn't look at Pornography because it's lust, and lust is sin. What kind of after affects does it put on a person physically and spiritually, and what does it make one do that's so bad if it goes no further than masturbation with pornography? How is it corrupting the soul is what i'm asking basically if no one's getting hurt?
2006-06-08 10:53:04 · 26 answers · asked by Shawn J 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If there is any area in you life that will keep you from walking closely to Christ in these difficult end times, it is worth fighting and eradicating. There is NOTHING that can take the place of true satisfaction and joy that comes from walking in the spirit.
Any involvement with pornography, whether it be printed literature via photographs or written, video, or live pornographic presentations (strip clubs) will alter the tide of your entire life! It will:
1) Erase the purpose for which you were really intended, which is to, as a believer, glorify God by your life and testimony…
2) Dull your morals and desensitize your spirit to truth and righteousness and good things…
3) Taint your view of woman causing disrespectful attitudes as well as actions…
4) Cause you to be in the wrong place at the wrong time introducing the wrong people into your life, which Satan will use to further destroy any hope of the abundant life that God has waiting for you.
5) Convolute your thought-life…
6) Pre-occupy your mind and, in time, dominate your life…
7) Lead to illicit sex which may lead to sexually transmitted diseases and life threatening viruses…
8) Keep you from the blessing of walking in the Spirit, so that the lusts of the flesh cannot be fulfilled (“Walk in the Spirit and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.” Gal. 5:16)
9) Be a possible stepping stone to homosexuality, pedophilia, or sexual violence interests.
10) Lead to a life of secrecy, lies, and decetion.
Scripture has much to say about guarding the mind and moral purity, which is for all who claim to be "in Christ" (true Christians):
Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart…If thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of they members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. Matt. 5: 28-29
What? Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s. I Cor. 6:19-20
Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity…But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honor, and some to dishonor…If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honor, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use, and prepared for every good work! …Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart. II Tim. 2: 19-22
Shun immorality and all sexual looseness – flee from impurity in thought, word or deed. Any other sin, which a man commits, is one outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. I Cor. 6: 18
Pornography and spirituality do not coexist. If a person is spiritually aware, he has respect for himself and others. Pornography sells and feeds off of disrespect for self and others.
The lips of a seductive woman are oh so sweet; her soft words are oh so smooth. But it won’t be long before she’s gravel in your mouth, a pain in your gut, a wound in your heart. She’s dancing down the primrose path to Death; she’s headed straight for Hell and taking you with her. Prov. 5:3-5
For by means of a whorish woman, a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life. Can a man take fire in his bosom and his clothes not be burned? Can one to upon hot coals and his feet not be burned? But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding; he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul. Prov. 6: 26-32
Wisdom is closely related to the things we look at. Things we look at and think about affect our ability to be intelligent and prudent. Because of this, what we take in through our eyes is extremely important.
The eye is the window to the soul. Satan knew this, and because he desired access to their souls, he used Adam’s and Eve’s eyes when he tempted them to eat the forbidden fruit. First Satan told Adam and Eve that having wisdom would somehow affect their eyes, “for God knows that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods knowing good and evil” (Gen. 3:5). Then, “the woman saw that the tree was good” (Gen. 3:6). Finally, immediately after they ate the fruit, “their eyes were opened and they knew that they were naked…and Adam and his wife hid themselves” (Gen. 3: 7-8).
Opening our eyes to evil has relational consequences. Once their minds were awakened to evil, Adam and Eve immediately saw their nakedness in a new light. Where moments before they had viewed their bodies with no shame, suddenly they felt so much shame that they hid from themselves, from each other, and from God. By focusing the soul on nakedness in a way that produces shame and isolation from self, from others, and from God, looking at evil destroys both freedom (the ability to know oneself) and intimacy (the ability to share oneself with others).
Jesus also talked about how exposing our eyes to evil is related to our ability to be wise. In Matthew 6:22, 23, He said, “The light of the body is the eye. If therefore thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, now great is that darkness!” Once again, the ancients can help us get a better understanding of what’s being said here. The Greek word for “evil” – poneros – means “that which is malicious and deliberately harmful of others.” In other words, if our eyes are looking at things that are malicious and willfully harming others, we are putting out our own eyes. We are closing ourselves off to truth. The result will be a plunge into darkness.
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he! Prov. 23:7
Although porn has an immediate physical effect on a man, porn isn’t interested in just grabbing a guy below the belt – porn goes straight past his body right into his soul through his imagination. Because actually “becoming” follows imagination, the battle is always for the mind. If your mind dwells on things that are good, pure, lovely, just and excellent, you develop a character and a personality that are good, pure, lovely, just, and excellent. If, however, your mind swells on things that are cruel, defiled, tasteless, dishonest, and worthless, you develop a character and a personality that are cruel, defiled, tasteless, dishonest, and worthless. In other words, you reap in your being what you sow in your imagination.
The more you fantasize the more deluded you become. The more deluded you become, the more powerless you are to leave your make-believe world by crafting solutions to your problems. It’s a vicious cycle and you can’t get out of it by fantasizing. You can only get out of it by telling yourself the truth.
Truth is the foundation on which the power to craft solutions rests. Truth is unchangeable reality. It doesn’t depend on circumstances. What is true is always true in every place, on every occasion. Line upon line, precept upon precept, truth builds its house. When the imagination is deluded, there is no truth, there can be no linking together of facts and without that linking of facts, there are no true solutions. Powerless to find true solutions to the difficulties he faces, the fantasizer is impelled to visit over and over the imaginary world he has created in his mind. Here all his problems go away because he can be anything he wants to be and he can make others do anything he wants them to do.
Fantasy can be addictive. Dr. Mark Laser has said, “Fantasy by itself can be exciting enough for the addict’s body to produce adrenaline, which is stimulating and alters mood. Fantasy can stimulate other chemical reactions in the pleasure centers of the brain that positively alter mood and even have a narcotic-like effect. The addict then uses these effects to escape other feelings, to change negative feelings to positive feelings, and even to reduce stress. For example, many sex addicts fantasize when they go to bed to put themselves to sleep. Given the chemical changes it creates, sex fantasy addicts are, in reality, drug addicts.”
Pornography gives out false information about human sexuality. It features men who can perform repeated acts of sex and women who experience endless orgasms after being defiled in ways that, in reality, cause women pain, not pleasure. Finally, the desirable women portrayed in pornography are often pumped up, tucked up, and made up. They are also often filled with disease. And rather than being present and fully engaged in what’s going on, many of them are on drugs to dull the pain of their shame.
Pornography is all smoke and mirrors. There’s just one problem. It appears quite real to the viewer. It engages his imagination in a way nothing else can. Porn warps the ability to tell what’s real and what’s not because there’s a physical response to what the eye sees and the mind imagines. When a man’s body experiences erection and ejaculation as a result of fantasizing to porn, it makes the porn seem more real. There is even a chemical response in the brain that locks the whole thing into his memory.
The physical senses are “proving” what the mind has conceived. Not only is the mind confused about what’s real, the body is confused as well. That which is unreal (the object causing the arousal is merely paper and ink or celluloid, which has no true power to touch you in a physical way) seems more real than that which is real (sexual arousal). True delusion has occurred. Delusion has a way of trying to become reality. The results are often chilling.
In the FBI’s most ambitious attempt to create a profile of a sex killer, they found that such men who kill – and kill again – often cannot tell the difference between reality and fantasy, even when they are committing murder.
FBI interviews with 36 convicted sex killers – including many serial murderers – reveal that virtually all of them have long-standing fantasies of murder that are “as real to them as their acts of murder. In addition, the report noted that 81% of the sex killers said they were users of pornography.
The men who became sex killers believed the lies behind pornography and, in believing the lies, they allowed their imaginations to become deluded. As they embraced the lies pornography taught them about sexuality, they gave the evil behind those lies full access to their souls. In their imaginations, they repeatedly surrendered their will to the acts of sexual conquest portrayed in pornography. Their emotions were thrilled as they “experienced” the delusion. Their emotions were depressed when the “experience” was over. Once their minds, wills, and emotions were surrendered to the delusion, their bodies screamed to act them out. The result was a bloody trail of women who had been sexually tortured. The power of their imaginations had been used to access their souls in order to get their bodies to do evil.
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he!
Shun immorality and all sexual looseness – flee from impurity in thought, word or deed. Any other sin, which a man commits, is one outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. I Cor. 6: 18
Pornography is never an end in and of itself. Researcher Harriet Kosoff wrote, “Pornography is primarily about masturbation, whether it is mental or actual”. Masturbation physically is a self-bent thing. Its focus is inward. It doesn’t share. It doesn’t know the verb “to give.” It is a fire that feeds itself. Self-absorption, self-deception, rationalizations, and masturbation are common behaviors for men who use pornography. They are part of the primary nature of pornography.
In a study done at the University of Manitoba and Winnipeg, researchers Neil Malamuth and Robert McIlwraith noted that Penthouse, in particular, searches for ways to increase its appeal as a stimulant for masturbatory fantasies. According to Dr. Ron Miller, Penthouse and other pornographic magazines have been successful in this search. Dr. Miller said he never dealt with a man who was involved with pornography who wasn’t also heavily involved in masturbation.
Dr Victor Cline, a prominent researcher on the psychological effects of pornography, said that masturbating to pornography can actually cause the very social problems its supposedly prevents:
In my view pornography is one contributor to sexual illness. It can provide anti-social sexual imagery which become locked into the man’s mind and returns again and again to haunt and stimulate him. When he masturbates to this image, without realizing it, he is engaging in a powerful form of learning called ‘masturbatory conditioning’, which can lead – in time – to acting out this imagery. … It is difficult for non-addicts to comprehend the totally driven nature of a sex addict. When the ‘wave’ hits them, these men are consumed by their appetite, regardless of the costs or consequences. Their addiction virtually rules their lives.
Thus when a man masturbates to pornography he can open himself up to powerful forces that program his internal computer to respond in certain ways in the future. This programming happens without intention or awareness – it happens unconsciously. There are no internal buzzers that go off and say, “Alert! Alert! Value system has been infected. Do not proceed in this operation.” A man can masturbate to pornography and not realize how he’s being changed. There is almost a dualism that occurs in that a man tries to make himself believe that the values he uses in relating to others in his everyday life are different from the values he masturbates to.
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he!
In the fantasy world of pornography, a man becomes the final arbiter of what is good and evil. In his heart, the masturbator imagines himself participating in acts that defile and use other people. In the act of release, the masturbator rewards himself for having this kind of mind-set.
In the secret places of his heart, he begins to abandon his will to the fantasies that give him pleasure. This abandonment happens without awareness because he is going in the direction of least resistance. In the end, his imagination has redirected his will from inner control based on the principles of conscience to outer control based on the appetites of the flesh.
When your will surrenders its right to control you from within based on what your conscience says, you lose your power to protect yourself from evil. Now you react rather than act. Now you’re outer-controlled rather than inner-controlled. Now you’re governed the same way animals are, by the principle of stimulus-response, rather than the way God said you were to be governed, by self-control.
Once we surrender our wills to outer control, we experience the ultimate consequence of idolatry: a lack of proper personal boundaries. Without proper boundaries, we are vulnerable to a full-fledged attack by the enemy.
He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls. Proverbs 25:28
With regards to marriage, a masturbating husband’s focus of sex is self-bent and inward. When the focus of sex is self-bent and inward, there can be no spirit-to-spirit communion with the person we love. Instead of being a way to interpersonal communion with another, sex implodes a man, driving him further into himself. Thus, by its very nature, masturbation closes the doors to intimacy. It’s opens the doors for self-adoration.
In self-adoration, we become gods in our own eyes. We have no sense of our limitations. We are unbridled in our determination to affect our world. We think our values, opinions, and needs are far more important than anyone else’s. In fact, we might not even see that anyone else has the right to values, opinions, and needs. We become objects of our own worship and live in a world according to us. Adoration of the self is narcissism. Just as a small infant wants the world to revolve around him, so a narcissist wants those around him to bow to his every command. After all, he’s in love with a wonderful guy – himself!
The husband involved with pornography and masturbation is saying, in effect, “My body, my sexuality, my innermost being, belong to me. No one else has prior claim. I can do whatever I want with myself because I belong to only me.”
Yet, Scripture teaches that when we marry, we give up the right to own ourselves. We transfer the ownership of our bodies to our spouses. This is especially true in the area of sexuality.
The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife. Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency. I Corinthians 7:4-5
When a man masturbates, he repossesses the power of his own body, defrauding his wife of what is rightfully hers. And since masturbation is usually done on the sly, the masturbator defrauds his wife without her consent. A wife cannot consent to something she is unaware of. She is left completely out of the loop of her husband’s sexuality.
Along with being dangerous to the marriage, masturbation can actually cause an identity crisis. Masturbation to pornography contributes to sexual confusion because when he masturbates, a man imagines himself to be both self and the other. He is both giver and receiver of temporary pleasure, both male and female. His hand becomes a female hand caressing his male body. He is not a whole man responding to a whole woman, he is part man/part woman responding to himself. As a man, he communicates with his imaginary female, telling her what will give him pleasure. As a female, he thrills himself with her response to his communication.
Thus, masturbation can be a dark little prison of self. The more time he spends masturbating, the more the masturbator pulls into himself. This can be devastating to a marriage and wife who wants to be attended to emotionally and sexually.
Once a man’s ability to love has been consumed on the altar of a masturbatory life-style, both he and his wife will become charter members of the Lonely Hearts Club. In that dark and companionless place, where the band plays eternal encores of “Let Me Entertain Me”, everyone dances alone.
The Bible gives us a pattern for true discipleship in Luke 9: 23 which outlines self-denial as the first prerequisite to following Christ. Self-indulgence has no place for the one who is serious about their walk with Christ.
If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.
In addition to the sins of immorality, most sex addicts are pathological liars. They lie about everything, not just their sexual behavior, and they do so with straight faces. They lie when telling the truth would save them time and money. They lie about little things as well as big ones. They lie to themselves about what they’re doing. The lie to their wives and families about where they’re going and what they’re going to do when they get there, even if there’s no sexually inappropriate behavior going on. Pornography itself is a lie, and they embrace it. Lying causes isolation and gives Satan legal ground to enter our lives.
If we say that we have fellowship with God and walk in darkness we lie and do not tell the truth. But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin” I John 1:6-7
In other words, the basis for relationship is truth. Without truth, there can be no trust. Without trust, there is only the appearance of intimacy. The result is a terrifying isolation.
Ye are of your father the devil and the lusts of your father ye will do; he was a murder from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie he speaketh of his own, for he is a liar, and the father of it” John 8: 44
A person who lives a lie opens the door to spiritual oppression of himself and his family.
Scripture teaches us that there is a spirit world that lives alongside our physical world. The unseen beings in this spirit world are just as real as the seen beings in our physical world. These unseen beings have the ability to affect our lives in a profound way.
Paul reminded us of that in Ephesians 6:12:
For we are not wrestling with flesh and blood – contending only with physical opponents – but against the despotisms, against the powers, against the master spirits who are the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spirit forces of wickedness in the heavenly sphere.”
I believe the spirit forces have access to a family in which the father is involved in pornography. This is spiritual warfare, just as real as physical warfare! God designed us to be controlled from the inside out. We are to be spirit-led. Pornography controls from the outside in. It seeks to lead us by our flesh.
Pornography starts by using the desires of our flesh to lure us into its clutches. It seeks to bring about the destruction of the body through abuse, venereal disease, abortion, and suicide (all traumas that occur to the body as a result of involvement with pornography.) Through imagination, it gains access into our souls where it affects our belief systems, seeks to bend our wills to evil, and causes devastation in our emotions. Then it closes in for the kill in our spirits. It violates our consciences, quenches our ability too know right from wrong, and shuts down our ability to talk with God. Once the spirit is dead, there is no real life in the body. We may be gong through the motions of living, but no one is really home inside.
It shouldn’t surprise us that we encounter the spirit world when we’re dealing with sex. Sex is a physical picture of a spiritual truth. God designed sex so we could know something about Him. God has a passionate desire to be in relationship with us. For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee; and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee. Deut. 6:4 The relationship between Christ and His church is compared to the relationship between a husband and wife. (Eph. 5:22-23) God uses the physical union, the seal of the marriage covenant, as a picture of spiritual truth.
Pornography can lead to illicit sex. Whether married or unmarried, pornography can lead to places and people that will open the door for sexual immorality with others. In sex, two people become one in nature. A co-mingling of hearts occur whether you think it does or not. Sex with another partner is not just physical. In immoral sexual union where God’s blessing and protection have been disregarded, Satanic spiritual personalities take advantage of our disobedient and sinful act as legal ground to oppress our unprotected spirits. Willfully seeking after pornographic material opens up one’s spirit to demonic influence and even control by an unclean spirit.
Because of the consequences of spiritual transference, Scripture warns us to flee immorality. To the church at Corinth, where temple prostitution was being practiced, Paul warned the Corinthians, Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. I Cor. 6:15-16. Back up a few verses and you’ll see that the principle of spiritual transference is the reason why fornication is a sin against ourselves: Do you not see and know that your bodies are members of Christ, the Messiah? Am I therefore to take the parts of Christ and make them parts of a prostitute? Never! Or do you not know and realize that when a man joins himself to a prostitute he becomes one body with her? The two, it is written, shall become one flesh. I Cor. 6:15-16
There are wide reaching repercussions from the choices we make.
(I apologize for the length, but pornography is an epidemic. Someone needed to read this today. May God bless you, dear person.)
2006-06-08 11:15:11 · answer #1 · answered by rocketscientist 4 · 7⤊ 7⤋
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2016-07-25 19:42:49 · answer #2 · answered by Rosalie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know if corrupt is the right word, but let me explain what it does and you can decide if there is a harm or not.
The first thing it does is encourage imagination over the actual. It would be like watching too much football and never really playing football. One can get the thrill vicariously without any actual effort.
This leads to the second thing. Society has accepted ways and 'proper' ways of dealing with our innate desires. Not just sex, but take sex as our working example. It is illegal to have sex with your siblings or children. Gratuitous sex is considered dangerous because of the possibility of emotional harm and disease transmission. Society teaches that sex is a thing that has meaning and consequence.
Now, consider how free your imagination is when unconstrained by any of these societal mores. There is where the 'harm' may lie. That what society teaches as 'proper' will come to seem stale and too much work. In this sense, pornography can lead to relationships and dealings that never meet the expectations of our fantasies and in an extension of this to a desire to act out those fantasies we created that don't match up with approved behavior.
2006-06-08 11:11:31 · answer #3 · answered by xaviar_onasis 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it really depends on the person. Different things influence different people. By seeing porn, it could make you base most of your decisions on sex, or something like that. But it can work the same way with watching movies where people have lots of money. People in general i think, aren't that bright, or have much selfcontrol. So they think if something applys to them, it must apply to everyone. And sometimes they just hear the same thing over and over agian, so they start repeating it without even thinking about it. Sometimes people need to realize just because things make sense, doesn't mean they are true.
How do you tell if someone is a vampire? stab them in the heart with a wooden steak. If they die, they must be a vampire, cuz that's how you kill them. If they don't die, well you're skrewed.
2006-06-08 11:00:26 · answer #4 · answered by slee z 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Watching pornography is no different than any other form of entertainment. Puritans heavily influenced the "morals" in the early days of the US and we still suffer from their insanity.
As with anything else, if you allow it to gain control of your life to the point it negatively affects your life, it is an unhealthy influence.
But that is true of cheeseburgers, Oprah Winfrey, church, golf, money, tv, or anything else that people allow to become an addiction.
Enjoy yourself and don't worry about other people think. Porn is a multi-billion dollar industry, so you are not alone.
BTW, be very careful if you visit I'net porn sites. Some are run by police agencies, some are run by churches who use them to distribute viruses, and some will download spyware that can be very annoying and hard to get rid of.
Additional comment:
People who are taught all their life that sex is evil are subject to allowing that brainwashing to influence them. If you think sex is evil and believe demons are waiting to tempt you into becoming a crazed, drug addicted mass murderer, it's probably better if you didn't watch porn.
The only real "evil" is people who teach their children that the human body and sexual activities are "evil."
2006-06-08 11:04:30 · answer #5 · answered by Left the building 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Lusting and focusing on the pornography is wrong and a sin. Any sin taints the soul, especially if it tends to be repeated.
Also, whenever someone buys porn or looks at it on the Internet or whatever, someone is making some money. Even if you didn't buy it, someone else probably did. And your looking at it supports the whole system. Internet ads are sold based on how often people look at something. The more you look, the more money somebody is making from porn.
Women wouldn't be selling their bodies like that if it weren't for the money. So stop looking, stop giving the porn web people money and stop giving the porn stars money.
2006-06-08 11:06:10 · answer #6 · answered by bwjordan 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
From a literary standpoint, I'd choose Harry Potter over Twilight every day...unless of course the choice was which book I'd use if there were no toilet paper left in the world to use ;-) As far as the rest of your question, I've never heard of people of any religion denying one but allowing the other on the basis of religion. After all, they're not THAT similar.
2016-03-15 01:58:47 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pornography is only wrong if it prevents you from living a healthy and happy life. It is sinful in the eyes of Christians because they are against any form of sexual expression not involving a married man and woman and promulgated according to the precepts of the Christian church. These standards for sexuality established by the Church are largely arbitrary, subjective, and culturally and historically based.
Some people are more susceptible to wrong things by watching pornography than others. These people may become easily addicted to porn or become tempted to act out their fantasies in real life against unwilling victims. Pornography also may contribute to the exploitation of women/girls as sexual objects in the social, political, and economic world.
Pornography however may also help those men/women who are sexually frustrated, curious about sex, or enjoy voyeurism without the risks of contracting STDs or engaging in risky sexual behavior.
As for correlation between pornography and violent behavior, it may well be that a higher percentage of rapists look at porn, but it is inconclusive that porn induces men to rape women. It may also well be that a higher percentage of rapists enjoy porn because they are sexually frustrated in some way. Men were raping women long before porn became widely accessible in the world.
I'm wiling to bet that there is a larger percentage of men who look at porn and don't act out violent fantasies than there men who do.
2006-06-08 11:03:20 · answer #8 · answered by s3113r2005 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know about corrupting the soul, but it does objectify women and leads people to believe that they are not humans, but objects without feeling, that a woman's body is simply there to satisy male sexual desires. There's nothing wrong with enjoying sex, but respect for the person you are with, and keeping in mind that they are a person with real feelings is important.
2006-06-08 18:20:36 · answer #9 · answered by LindaLou 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"No one gets hurt".
How would you feel if it was your child who was taking their clothes off? How would you feel if your son or daughter died of AIDS because they were a 'porn star'?
Have you ever looked into what the money from the porn industry supports, or where it goes?
Porn is not harmless. It is addictive. You always want more. It is based on a lie...a fantasy. It's not based in truth or reality.
Scripture says "whatever is true...pure...just...lovely...think on these things."
Another thing is...in Romans it mentions how man "exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man", & in this process, G-d gives them over to corruptness. In other words, your heart hardens.
Here's a type of example...the human body is full of wonder & awe; agreed? Well, when I worked in the operating room, I saw the human body in ways I never could have imagined. I was fascinated by what I saw & experienced (much as a person feels when looking at porn), but in the end, I found my sense of "awe" of the human body had been taken from me because of what I experienced in the operating room. Somehow, it lost it's appeal.
Does this make sense?
2006-06-08 11:03:48 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
This is a tough one, but here goes...
Love is giving, and like God, if you love someone, you give them your everything, your heart, soul, body, mind.
Porn is a taker, it takes, and continues to take, the more you see or experience, the more you want too, you will come to a point where you no longer want to give love to the one you love, because you are to busy taking from porn. I may not have said it as clearly as I would have liked, and I hope you understand.
The late Pastor A. Rogers has a series about this if you go to his website you can find it there.
Blessings,
Mike <><
2006-06-08 11:34:43 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋