Does it say anywhere in the bible
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Kitty
️ — 5 years ago(June 02, 2020 11:45 AM)That masturbation is a sin I heard it let’s evil spirits in the deliverance ministers say it does I’m not sure
Jesus Christ is Lord
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Soul_Venorn — 5 years ago(June 02, 2020 01:51 PM)
Not really but it's been interpreted that way from the stories of Onan (the barbarian)
From Wikipedia: Onan
After Onan's brother Er was slain by God, his father Judah told him to fulfill his duty to his brother by entering into a levirate marriage with his brother's widow Tamar to give her offspring. Religion professor Tikva Frymer-Kensky has pointed out the economic repercussions of a levirate marriage: any son born to Tamar would be deemed the heir of the deceased Er, and able to claim the firstborn's double share of inheritance. However, if Er were childless, or only had daughters, Onan would have inherited as the oldest surviving son.[3]
When Onan had sex with Tamar, he withdrew before his orgasm[4] and "spilled his seed [or semen] on the ground", since any child born would not legally be considered his heir.[5] The next statement in the Bible says that Onan did evil and that God slew him.[6]
The implication from the narrative is that Onan's act as described is what gave rise to divine displeasure, but even if that is the case it is not clear whether his objectionable behaviour was the refusal to complete the levirate obligation of providing sperm for his brother's widow to continue his brother's name (and clan rights) or "shedding seed in vain", or even having sex with Tamar (who would normally be prohibited to him as a sister-in-law) outside the context of an overriding levirate obligation.
Early Christian writers have sometimes focused on the spilling seed, and the sexual act being used for non-procreational purposes. This interpretation was held by several early Christian apologists. Jerome, for example, argued:
But I wonder why he the heretic Jovinianus set Judah and Tamar before us for an example, unless perchance even harlots give him pleasure; or Onan, who was slain because he begrudged his brother his seed. Does he imagine that we approve of any sexual intercourse except for the procreation of children?[10]
Clement of Alexandria, while not making explicit reference to Onan, similarly reflects an early Christian view of the abhorrence of spilling seed:
Because of its divine institution for the propagation of man, the seed is not to be vainly ejaculated, nor is it to be damaged, nor is it to be wasted.[11] To have coitus other than to procreate children is to do injury to nature.[12]
The term "onanism" has come to refer to masturbation in many modern languages (for example Hebrew,[32] German, and Japanese[33]) based on an interpretation of the Onan story.
The way I see it; God has nothing against masturbation, as long as you're not wasting any precious seeds.
I would agree with you but then both of us would be wrong
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