Comments on: Pornography: the new minstrel show http://homecomers.org/weblog/index.php/pornography-the-new-minstrel-show/ Finding our way back home to simplicity, humility, repentance and personal responsibility through prayer and community. Sun, 23 Oct 2011 04:59:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Chris F http://homecomers.org/weblog/index.php/pornography-the-new-minstrel-show/#comment-1853 Chris F Sat, 05 Jun 2010 18:52:50 +0000 http://www.homecomers.org/weblog/index.php/pornography-the-new-minstrel-show/#comment-1853 I think the more important question than whether porn is art or not, or whether women engage in the production of it of their own free will or not, is what it really means to look at it. You do not know if the women in porn are married or not. You can't always tell if they have a boyfriend. And you don't know if they claim to be Christians or not. Each of these things presents a problem to a Christian looking at porn. For, if the woman is married or involved, then lusting after her is truly committing adultery with her in your heart. It is breaking the 10th commandment. And if the woman is not a believer, then lusting after her is becoming unequally yoked with her in your mind. Considering these problems, a Christian that focuses on porn is not putting God first, and if so, then he is breaking the 1st commandment. And anything worshipped besides God is an idol. Therefore, porn can be the cause of a Christian breaking the 1st (no other gods besides God), 2nd (no graven images, to worship them), 3rd (taking God's name in vain, setting a bad example), 5th (honour your father and mother, not building your family), 7th (no adultery), and 10th commandments (no coveting your neighbour's wife). This results in bondage and an altered course of life, distracting men from accomplishing what is more important (family) and useful, and laying a burden of guilt on them that hamstrings them in their spiritual life and service. And I know this first hand, because I wasted about 10 years of my life on porn. It is a trap, and causes the viewer more harm than he realizes. As usual, sin hurts us, often more than it hurts others. Thankfully, there is mercy, which triumphs over judgment. But I encourage all men to wake up and look at the side effects of porn on their lives. Realize what it is doing to you, and what you are doing to yourself. Understand that the feeling of intimacy it induces is completely fake, and cannot satisfy, nor reward you in the end. Only God can satisfy, only God can reward with life. And as Proverbs says, a prudent wife is from the Lord. God bless. I think the more important question than whether porn is art or not, or whether women engage in the production of it of their own free will or not, is what it really means to look at it.

You do not know if the women in porn are married or not. You can’t always tell if they have a boyfriend. And you don’t know if they claim to be Christians or not. Each of these things presents a problem to a Christian looking at porn. For, if the woman is married or involved, then lusting after her is truly committing adultery with her in your heart. It is breaking the 10th commandment. And if the woman is not a believer, then lusting after her is becoming unequally yoked with her in your mind.

Considering these problems, a Christian that focuses on porn is not putting God first, and if so, then he is breaking the 1st commandment. And anything worshipped besides God is an idol.

Therefore, porn can be the cause of a Christian breaking the 1st (no other gods besides God), 2nd (no graven images, to worship them), 3rd (taking God’s name in vain, setting a bad example), 5th (honour your father and mother, not building your family), 7th (no adultery), and 10th commandments (no coveting your neighbour’s wife). This results in bondage and an altered course of life, distracting men from accomplishing what is more important (family) and useful, and laying a burden of guilt on them that hamstrings them in their spiritual life and service.

And I know this first hand, because I wasted about 10 years of my life on porn. It is a trap, and causes the viewer more harm than he realizes. As usual, sin hurts us, often more than it hurts others.

Thankfully, there is mercy, which triumphs over judgment. But I encourage all men to wake up and look at the side effects of porn on their lives. Realize what it is doing to you, and what you are doing to yourself. Understand that the feeling of intimacy it induces is completely fake, and cannot satisfy, nor reward you in the end. Only God can satisfy, only God can reward with life. And as Proverbs says, a prudent wife is from the Lord.

God bless.

]]> By: jchfleetguy http://homecomers.org/weblog/index.php/pornography-the-new-minstrel-show/#comment-1852 jchfleetguy Sun, 21 Oct 2007 00:51:45 +0000 http://www.homecomers.org/weblog/index.php/pornography-the-new-minstrel-show/#comment-1852 Not to mention that much of the world's internet pornography is populated by woman who are actual slaves today. Not to mention that much of the world’s internet pornography is populated by woman who are actual slaves today.

]]> By: Diane R http://homecomers.org/weblog/index.php/pornography-the-new-minstrel-show/#comment-1851 Diane R Sun, 21 Oct 2007 00:01:10 +0000 http://www.homecomers.org/weblog/index.php/pornography-the-new-minstrel-show/#comment-1851 Fascinating post. Thanks. Fascinating post. Thanks.

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