is it okay for a Christian to masturbrate?

Answer 1

I think the issue is people in our society forget to separate good desires from bad desires. Bad defined as something that hurts our soul, fights our natural conscience. masturbation isn't meant as a form of just sexual gratification, though it can be used that way, but rather it is a form of loving yourself. We get caught up in the lustful sex taught to us by society, and forget that sexuality is a showing of love, even religiously. Simple masturbation, thinking of nothing, but the pleasure with yourself, is self love...something we need to do more of.

Answer 2

I think it would depend on the WHYs behind the masturbation. Normal sexual exploration is natural - I'd rather have my kids masterbating to discover the sexual side of themselves than going out and fooling around and getting an STD or HIV or pregnant or something. But if a person masterbates as an escape or to replace a normal healthy sexual relationship, something might be worth looking into. I would still say that the masturbation is a sign of something else going on.

Answer 3

Maybe the Abrahamic religions; Judaism, Christianity, and Islam; have passed the test of time because these religions motivate communities of faithful believers to out work, out fight and out number competition. To out number competition is to channel all sexual energy into sex for procreative purposes. For a Christian to masturbate then would be a sin because to do so would be to deviate from a collective effort upon the part of communities of faithful believers to out number competition. It also follows that to outnumber competition is to prohibit sex for occupational, recreational, and homosexual purposes. Therefore Christians typically object to sexual education that could make these practices safer. Maybe Christians are racist, heterofascist, warmongers who like their Muslim and Jewish counterparts are running a race to out work, out fight, and out number competition in the global culture. Maybe the limited dimensions of Earth, fierce competition for ever more scarce resources and bad leadership from conservative ideological authorities cause this race to out work, out fight, and out number competition to be transformed into a race to Armageddon. Communities of faithful believers may come to wish for this final war because conservative ideological authorities promise the following: Before Armageddon, the good one will rapture or transport living members of communities of faithful believers to heaven; and after Armageddon, the good one will reward those who are faithful loyal and true by resurrecting dead members of communities of faithful believers, judging members good, giving members bodies with perfect form and function and allowing members admission to a place of divine eternal bliss called heaven. As a result communities of faithful believers tend to be quite willing to go to war. The result being that these conservative ideological traditions produce both intolerant, fanatical terrorists bent on fighting evil and aggressive warmongers attacking those states deemed sponsors of terrorism. These developments are all to the liking of a mercenary plutocratic predatory few who profit in the market from the sale and manufacture of the products and services of a beast of a military industrial complex and rule an underworld of cities and bunkers designed to withstand a catastrophe on the scale of a super volcano eruption or global nuclear war. Who wins in a race to Armageddon? Do the many win or the few? Will the few win in a race to Armageddon by taking refuge in an underworld and awaiting an opportunity to bloom as a seed of the next over world? Will the many lose in a race to Armageddon like lemmings whose breeding cycle has run it's course?

Answer 4

NO. never ok. Many people think it is jsut a sin of lust, but lust is a sin seperate from this. It takes the sexual act and uses it as an end instead of a means to end (children).

Answer 5

Of course not. Masturbation is healthy and enjoyable, and this is not permissible for Christians.

Answer 6

Absolutely, christians need to c*m too right?

Answer 7

Here is a link that looks at what the Bible has to say about this issue. http://www.layhands.com/IsMasturbationASin.htm

Answer 8

sorry not a christian here,but if its there,you might as well use it.

Answer 9

I can't really see too many other options.

Answer 10

yeah