is looking at porn a sin?

Answer 1

FIRST.... read Liviticus... and then Re-Ask Your Question!

Yes...... (2Peter 2:14) having eyes full of adultery and never ceasing from sin, alluring unstable souls, having a heart exercised with covetousness. They are cursed children


(2Peter 2:14) having eyes full of adultery.......

and never ceasing from sin,

........alluring unstable souls,

.........having a heart exercised with covetousness.

They are cursed children

Thanks, RR

(2Pe 2:14) having eyes full of adultery and never ceasing from sin, alluring unstable souls, having a heart exercised with covetousness. They are cursed children

Answer 2

Most definitely. Here's why: the human body is one of God's greatest creations and is to be treated with respect since it is a temple of the Holy Spirit. Also, sex is a gift from God meant to be shared between two married people and is not to be treated casually (this is also why sex outside marriage is a sin). By looking at porn, you turn the human body into nothing more than an object and also cheapen sex, turning it into an object as well. (I'm Catholic, by the way; other religions may have slightly different ideas on this, but you can bet you'll hear things to a similar effect from any religion.)

Answer 3

It's a sin because you are not respecting the person whose body you are looking at. At the same time, the person who agreed to star in the porn film is not respecting himself/herself because he/she does not treasure his/her body that much. If a person really treasures his/her body, the only person he/she will agree to look at his/her body is his/her spouse.

Watching porn can also cause lust, thus i know it is really a sin.

Answer 4

Pornography use causes serious spiritual damage. It can become a real impediment for an individual seeking to have a relationship with God. The Bible links sexual appetite with covetousness and idolatry. (Colossians 3:5) The one coveting something desires it so much that it becomes the dominant thing in his life, eclipsing everything else. In essence, those addicted to pornography put their sexual desire above God. They thus make an idol of it. Jehovah God’s command states: “You must not have any other gods against my face.”—Exodus 20:3.

Pornography destroys loving relationships. The apostle Peter, himself a married man, urged Christian husbands to assign honor to their wives. A husband who fails to do so will find that his prayers to God are hindered. (1 Peter 3:7) Would secretly viewing indecent images of women be treating one’s own wife honorably? How would she feel if she found out? And what would the God who will bring “every sort of work into the judgment” and who makes “an estimate of spirits” think? (Ecclesiastes 12:14; Proverbs 16:2) Could one who uses pornography have any reason to expect that his prayers would be listened to by God?

The insistence on selfish gratification at all costs is inherent in pornography use. Hence, viewing pornography is unloving. It undercuts a Christian’s fight to maintain chastity and a clean moral standing before God. “This is what God wills,” wrote the apostle Paul, “that you abstain from fornication; that each one of you should know how to get possession of his own vessel in sanctification and honor, not in covetous sexual appetite . . . , that no one go to the point of harming and encroach upon the rights of his brother.”—1 Thessalonians 4:3-7.

Pornography especially exploits women and children. It demeans them and robs them of their dignity and rights. One who uses pornography participates in and supports that exploitation. “No matter how good a . . . man thinks he is,” point out researchers Steven Hill and Nina Silver, “his tacit approval of pornography makes him at best [insensitive], at worst misogynistic, toward the very person he professes to care about.”

Answer 5

In most cases it involves sinful thoughts. I suppose if you were on a judicial committee and you had to determine what materials should be classified as pornographic and you kept your mind on the case and controlled your thoughts then you wouldn't be sinning in your heart.

Answer 6

Yes. Here is a talk given by a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles on the subject...
http://www.lds.org/portal/site/LDSOrg/menuitem.b12f9d18fae655bb69095bd3e44916a0/?vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD&locale=0&sourceId=e4dbd04a6921c010VgnVCM1000004d82620a____&hideNav=1

Answer 7

Yes it is a sin and also a 3rd person in your relationship if you are married or with someone.

Answer 8

Yes: It is an addiction that will take the Power of the Holy Spirit to break;

Answer 9

yes. because i can't imagine you're watching porn and not being aroused and thinking about being involved with the people in it....that is adultery in your mind and it's the same as if you actually did it with your body. yes it's a sin.

Answer 10

YES. The human body is holy and shouldn't be objectified purely for pleasure. We are to love the whole person, not just lust after their body. God bless.