If falling for your body’s desire is a sin, how is it then that masturbation isn’t directly a sin if it is a desire of the body?<\/p>\n\t
The flaw is in your premise. Sin is breaking the law of God. “Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness<\/em>” (I John 3:4). Satisfying the desire of the body is not necessarily a sin. If you are hungry it is not a sin to eat. “The righteous eats to the satisfying of his soul, but the stomach of the wicked shall be in want<\/em>” (Proverbs 13:25). If you are thirsty, getting something to drink is not a sin. “Then he became very thirsty; so he cried out to the LORD and said, “You have given this great deliverance by the hand of Your servant; and now shall I die of thirst and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?” So God split the hollow place that is in Lehi, and water came out, and he drank; and his spirit returned, and he revived. Therefore he called its name En Hakkore, which is in Lehi to this day<\/em>” (Judges 15:18-19). Did God encourage Samson to sin by giving him what his body desired?<\/p>\n If you start with a false premise, you can make no inference about the conclusion. Once the premise is shown to be false, the entire argument becomes false.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Question: If falling for your body’s desire is a sin, how is it then that masturbation isn’t directly a sin if it is a desire of the body? Answer: The flaw is in your premise. Sin is breaking the law of God. “Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness” (I John 3:4).…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[156,171],"class_list":["post-34527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-lust","tag-masturbation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21828,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/what-is-sin-is-it-spiritual-or-physical\/","url_meta":{"origin":34527,"position":0},"title":"What is sin? 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