" Do not be overly righteous, nor be overly wise: Why should you destroy yourself? Do not be overly wicked, nor be foolish: Why should you die before your time? It is good that you grasp this, and also not remove your hand from the other for he who fears God will escape them all" (Ecclesiastes 7:16-18). Solomon also mention that people have a tendency to go to extremes. But I must also must be careful to make up sins to add to God's laws. I must be careful not to call righteous something that God said is a sin. " As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have received, let him be accursed" (Galatians 1:9). A similar warning is given to Christians.
" You shall not add to the word which I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you" (Deuteronomy 4:2). God warned the Israelites not to alter His laws. But the reality is that it is just an instinctive response to certain physical stimulation. It is that mechanical response that homosexuals use to convince young men that they "obviously" have homosexual desires. On one level the triggering of ejaculation is a response to physical stimulation.
Such is possible, especially when the seminal vesicles are full and a man's sexual desire is so strong that it is easily triggered. Thus we would conclude that it is not the act of releasing semen that determines sinfulness or righteousness.īut your question is whether masturbation would be sinful if the person doing it was only using it to release semen and managed to do so without thinking about sex outside of marriage. We could also argue that a man putting his penis in a woman to whom he is not married would be considered fornication even if he does not ejaculate. The most simple counter argument is that sexual intercourse between a husband and wife is not a sin (Hebrews 13:4), yet semen is produced in the act of sex. The statement that producing semen for any sexual purpose is a sin, is false.
The article " A Look at Pornography" goes into why pornography is both sinful and harmful in detail. However, I went on to state there are things often associated with masturbation, which can be easily shown to be a sin, such as the use of pornography. The conclusion is that there is no direct evidence that the act of masturbation is a sin. I then showed that masturbation would be covered by those rules, though it was not specifically mentioned. I then showed that uncleanness did not mean the person sinned, but that if the rules for uncleanness were broken, then the breaking of those rules was a sin. Any emission of semen made the man ejaculating and what the semen contacted to be unclean for one day. I believe you are referring to the answer to the question " Is masturbation unacceptable?" In that answer, I showed that the Old Testament mentions the emission of semen generally and specifically though sexual acts and nocturnal emissions.