[Golden_Boy]

And what are the Scriptural quotes, directly?

I'm not asking directly about Lust, Pornography...

I'm asking specifically, for practically, about the act of waking up in the morning and simply relieving certain biological feelings strictly without anyone, ocasionally?

I ask only because sometimes it begins in dreams and culminates during awakening, leaving me feeling guilty.

:(

[jaime90]

Masturbation is basically having sex with yourself- something that God intended to happen between a man and a woman - a husband and wife. It's completely natural to have the desire to be intimate- but God planned it within certain boundaries. It's all about what you do with that desire. (I have that desire sometimes, and I haven't exactly done with it what God would've had me do with it every time either.) The guilty feeling you have is conviction- You shouldn't respond to the desire in the way you do. REMEMBER though that the desire isn't wrong. It's all about overcoming.

[Golden_Boy]

The guilty feeling you have is conviction- You shouldn't respond to the desire in the way you do. REMEMBER though that the desire isn't wrong. It's all about overcoming.

Oh, I see, thanks, Jaime.

Yeah I was just wondering so much and been guilty, because I was talking with a guy who would say he jerked off like as many as 5 time a day and I was thinking oh, my that's so 'wrong' if there is scale for wrongness, and I feel really bad about it even just doing it once or twice a month... is still wrong... ideally I see myself overcoming it 100% as I get older.

Who knows maybe it will be a perfect new decade resolution with 2010 around the corner but I won't lie to myself or anyone, forward.

[jaime90]

Well it's so prevalent in young people these days, and since I'm only 19 it does come up a lot in conversation and joking with close friends, even Christian friends have said that they do it nearly everyday. But yeah, like I said, it's not the desire, it's what we do with it that makes it sin- and I know, it's really tempting, I totally get it.

[arcura]

Golden_Boy,
Gen 38:9. And Onan knew that the offspring would not be his; so it came about that when he went in to his brother's wife, he wasted his seed on the ground, in order not to give offspring to his brother.
10. But what he did was displeasing in the sight of the Lord; so He took his life also.
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It is wrong to cast your seed wrongly.
It is mean only for sex between married men and women.
Peace and kindness,
Fred

[galveston]

Golden_Boy,
Gen 38:9. And Onan knew that the offspring would not be his; so it came about that when he went in to his brother's wife, he wasted his seed on the ground, in order not to give offspring to his brother.
10. But what he did was displeasing in the sight of the Lord; so He took his life also.
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It is wrong to cast your seed wrongly.
It is mean only for sex between married men and women.
Peace and kindness,
Fred

I don't think this scripture applies in the sense you use it here.

It was the LAW that Onan raise up a child for his dead brother. That was the ONLY reason for him to have relations with the widow.

Even though he fully knew this, he deliberately broke the law in this case, and that made it rebellion, for which he died.

Onan was practicing contraception, which might usually be OK, but in this case it was not.

[arcura]

galveston,
Never-the-less he cast his seed wrongly.
That is the point I was trying to make.
Peace and kindness,
Fred