Masturbation is wrong!

Dear Pastor,

The Bible does not say one should not smoke. However, if one smokes, it may have adverse effects. Smoking is an unclean habit. Pastor, a person who frequently masturbates has a problem. This is a scientific fact. Those who do not promote masturbation have a deep and favourable relationship with God.

Christian

Dear Christian,

Be careful how you condemn. Smoking should not be encouraged because it may cause cancer. You call it an unclean habit, but I do not see the link between smoking and masturbation.

Why do you believe people who do not masturbate have a deep and favourable relationship with God? For a person to have a close relationship with God, that person must read his Bible and pray every day.

The word says, in the book of Psalms, "Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

"But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

"The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. Therefore, the ungodly shall not stand in the judgement, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish."

I believe what you are trying to say is people who masturbate commit a sin. You are not able to prove that by reading the Bible.

Pastor