RE: Why Is Masturbation Sin?
September 5, 2011 at 10:12 am
(This post was last modified: September 5, 2011 at 11:09 am by Castle.)
(September 4, 2011 at 7:50 pm)coffeeveritas Wrote: Yes, I totally agree about the need for a more mature discussion about sexuality. I would like to see the church talk about masturbation as be normal rather than dangerous. For sure you want to avoid any sexual behaviors that would be classified as maladaptive by the DSM, but short of that it's not really a problem. Many times when I talk to other Christians about sexuality they are squeamish, but I always remind them that there is a big book of erotic poetry in the middle of the Bible (one of my favorite facts).
As far as God dwelling in the darkness, I couldn't think of what you were talking about, but when you mentioned those verses I finally did recall. I know about a few scattered verses that mention God in the darkness, but it seemed like you were appealing to a motif. The one you brought up is actually a really cool Hebrew way of talking about God. Specifically the darkness refers to smoke and clouds, which God was thought to inhabit from time to time. There's actually a lot of poetry behind that particular use of the word; it has a sort of haunting beauty. Still, it's not a very common way of referring to God now-a-days, where did you come across it?
Please help these slow leaning Christian towards the light. It took time too long for them to find out about dinosaurs and that the world was not flat. Lets save them from getting hairy palms, blindness, or go insane from spanking the monkey.
