(December 1, 2012 at 10:12 pm)Daniel Wrote: ...
I don't think you can back up the argument against masturbation Biblically - the closet the Bible gets to condemning it is condemning pornea, pornea means (basically) sex acts outside of sanctioned marriage. Anyone who claims otherwise can't back up their argument.
There's actually a bit of controversy over the meaning of pornea. It's not clear anymore what it means exactly. The best translation of it I've heard is simply "sexual immorality."
Same with the word that has been traditional translated as homosexual. That word isn't clear to many scholars anymore either.
My ignore list
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
