Why does God consider masturbation unclean if he invented it?

Question

15:16 And if any man's seed of copulation go out from him, then he shall wash all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the even.

Answer 1

dam fine question

got jerked off 3 times today - twice by my gf and once by me with the gf watching -

Answer 2

Man invented it. Man does a lot of things then blames God for it. You've heard it. Why does God let wars happen, starvation, murder, child abuse, spousal abuse, the list is endless. But God didn't invent all this crap. Man did. But because of the whole free will thing, which by the way God DID invent, God isn't just going to step in and stop it all. Man has to choose to stop or we're all just robots. As you can see by thousands of years of human history, masturbation is probably the least of the bad choices mankind has made. In fact, let's just pretend that mankind took just one day, one measly day, and spent it whacking off. How many lives would be spared? How many arguments would not happen? How many people would be smiling instead of picking up an AK47 and blasting a mosque to hell? How many rapes would not happen?

Answer 3

Rights are directly derived from Natural Law. The Right of defending oneself is Natural Law. The Right of overthrowing tyranny is Natural Law. If you believe in some creative god, then some god created nature (perhaps through evolution), and Natural Law. If you don't believe in some creative god, you still must acknowledge the evolution of nature, hence, nature evolved Natural Law. Either way, the Constitution and its Amendments DO NOT GIVE RIGHTS. It is supposed to be a document that limits the government, not one that allows the government to take power from the people. We as U.S. citizens have ALL rights not explicitly spelled out by law that we don't. However, there are many, many privileges that are NOT rights, such as an income, healthcare, marriage, education, a job, a house, a car, a phone, etc. Those are not rights; we must work or be lucky to have those privileges. When people are simply given these privileges based on status instead of working for them somehow, they lose their liberty, becoming slaves to the government by their obedience to that govt which gave those privileges, as if they had chains. As Thomas Jefferson said, “When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty.”

Answer 4

A lot of things in things in the bible may have a Symbolic meaning. God knew that this was going to happen already. It may not be the act that worries God as much as what is thought about during the act, for which makes one unclean.

Answer 5

Probably the same reason blood, spit, urine or defecation are considered "unclean."

What is your point?

Ejaculation & masturbation are hardly equivalent.

You seem to have some obsession with masturbation. Masturbation is a natural act practiced by the vast majority of people, men & women. Why you are obsessed with the subject is unclear.

Are you 13 or 14 and just reached puberty?

If it feels good, do it, you don't need our permission.

Answer 6

Since, there’s no Scripture condemning the act of masturbation as a sin, it stands to reason that it’s an act which has the potential to be honoring to God and is in accord with the fact that the Holy Spirit lives in the believer. Solitary masturbation is not an act which harms the individual’s body, nor does it involve the joining of one body and spirit to another as is the case with sexual intercourse. Through the releasing of sexual tensions, it can act as a barrier to seeking release through immoral outlets. A part of honoring God with our bodies is doing whatever’s necessary to keep our bodies under control.
In the area of sexuality, masturbation can be an effective way of doing so.

Answer 7

Well, by that logic God also invented defecation, yet most people would agree that's something "unclean."

For that matter, God invented dirt! What could be more unclean than that?

Answer 8

He also said that a woman is unclean during her menstrual cycle an dHe invented that. It's not the outward that is bad, but what is in our hearts and our hearts are wicked.

Answer 9

I would like to see where it says, anywhere, where God "invented" masturbation. Just another moron with no life, trying to twist the words of the Bible trying to make a point that isn't there.

Answer 10

He invented it so that people don't expload when they have no way of having sex.
It was then called a sin so that people save some time for work, rather than masturbating all day long. That would be my guess.

Answer 11

He didn't invent it... People decided to be nasty and put use towards it. He didn't just say - Go Masturbate! The people found how to do that when they had the "knowledge" from the oh so famous Tree.