RE: Christianity and Masturbation
April 17, 2015 at 10:56 pm
(This post was last modified: April 17, 2015 at 10:57 pm by Pyrrho.)
(April 17, 2015 at 6:47 am)Mental Outlaw Wrote: So Masturbation is wrong in Christianity right? ...
A simple online search will tell you that Christians do not all agree on this subject. Nor did any of the sites I looked at use the Genesis verse (38:9) to support their opinion, which is a case of someone having sex, not masturbating. The specific act is coitus interruptus, and in Genesis 38:9, it was done to avoid impregnating his [dead] brother's wife, as he did not want to produce children for his brother. See:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?se...ersion=KJV
(You can select alternate translations at that site.)
So it really has nothing to do with masturbation, and many Christians are sensible enough to see that. Some were sensible enough to observe the fact that the Bible does not mention masturbation, and so their opinions on the subject involve making inferences from other things that are stated.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
