If you are religious you might take that into consideration. - But seriously, do you relay care about you life after death ? I mean enjoy your life now, and fret when you are dead.
I doubt it. And by that I don't mean all this "if there was a god" talk. Wrong for for that. But why? Well, everyone sins. God doesn't send everyone to hell. And it's not one of the 10 commandments to stop fap fap fapping.
It just raises the point that whoever wrote these religious texts had a serious love hate relationship with sexuality. The raising of sex as a loathed taboo and sin throughout those choppy lines whilst clergymen get caught red handed in all sorts of sexual shenanigans throughout history and now seems only to be the work of a clutch of perverse, twisted self-hate psychopathic virgins.
Apparently..from my limited understanding based merely on what I have heard of about the book...the man explains that to get into heaven you must be a good person and not be against god.
1) There is no proof of an afterlife, much less one in which people are eternally (or temporarily) punished based on their actions in life.
I think that the OP was suggesting a presumption of there being a (g)God(s) for the intent purpose of this thread, so that he would know that if there is a God (or gods) he would go to hell for masturbating.
I guess it depends how seriously you take the biblical laws. It basically says not to even think about women in a lusty way, because you've already defiled her in your mind and that's apparenty as bad as doing it.
I for one thing can't actually imagine how to be a good person and be really against God.
Then you probably haven't read the bible. I'm generally a good person, but I now find the Abrahamic God to be incredibly twisted. I just read Judges 11:30-40. Preparing to face a strong opponent, a war leader, Jephthah, prayed and begged for God to bless them so they could destroy their enemies. He promised to make a burnt offering (see Lev 1:3-9) of the first thing that he saw come out of his house when he returned home. They won a lot, slaughtering many across more than 20 cities. He returned home. His daughter, his only child, ran out to greet him. He told her what he had promised. She requested 2 months to weap with her friends. She came back after 2 months and was sacrificed.
To sum up, an 'all-knowing all-powerful all-loving' being willingly accepted a human sacrifice in order to support war because the smell of blood pleases Him. wtf.
I think that the OP was suggesting a presumption of there being a (g)God(s) for the intent purpose of this thread, so that he would know that if there is a God (or gods) he would go to hell for masturbating.
Even if we were to accept the existence of a god(s) for the purpose of this thread, it would still be presumptuous to conclude this god(s) would have such an extreme punishment for doing something like this or even any punishment at all. Given we have no idea of what sort of god(s) we are dealing with.
To sum up, an 'all-knowing all-powerful all-loving' being willingly accepted a human sacrifice in order to support war because the smell of blood pleases Him. wtf.
From what I read from your link (I could've misconstrued it) that this Jepthah man was just praying to God, and promising a sacrifice if his plans succeeded. Nowhere did I read that God accepted or endorsed his act. Just because something is done in someones name it doesn't mean that the person agrees with it.
it would still be presumptuous to conclude this god(s) would have such an extreme punishment for doing something like this or even any punishment at all. Given we have no idea of what sort of god(s) we are dealing with.
I agree, but I was just reiterating what the OP said.
Nowhere did I read that God accepted or endorsed his act.
Considering this was back when God was actually talking to people, He could have pulled what he did to Abraham and tell him to stop. So yes God did accept the human sacrifice.
Considering this was back when God was actually talking to people, He could have pulled what he did to Abraham and tell him to stop. So yes God did accept the human sacrifice.
In addition, (for those who believe the bible was divinely compiled) He let it stay in the holy book as an example of faith in Him. Jep is also mentioned among David, Samson, and others who supposedly accomplished many great things through their faith in God (Heb 11:32-34). Abraham is mentioned shortly before this (Heb 11:17-18).
I'm not sure how wrong sperm banks are, just think it's weird how a 50 year old man can donate his sperm and then because it is anonymous his twenty year old daughter can impregnate herself from her father without her knowing. Yuck.