Masturbation,
Jesus, and Ritualism
Leviticus
15
I
think the most important part of this entire chapter would be at Leviticus
15: 16 – 18. A subject
that is rarely heard of in church is masturbation.
From reading this chapter one realizes that you are ritually unclean.
Are you physically unclean? Are
you humanly unclean? Are you
mentally unclean? Are you
spiritually unclean? From what I
understand at this reading is only, you are ritually unclean.
And what is ritualism? My
Winston dictionary defines it as such: “one who believes in or is devoted to,
the formal side of religious worship or ceremony.”
Being
ritually clean has everything to do with religious service.
Yet who in our day and age does not run into someone who is “not”
ritually unclean? Considering the
millions of people on this planet, and the thousands of people we meet per year,
not to mention the hundreds of people we interact with on a daily basis. We have no knowledge of when a woman is on her period, or if
a man has discharged his semen. At
verse 18: “after sexual intercourse both the man and the woman must take a
bath, and they will remain unclean until evening.”
I point out now that it does not say ritually unclean.
It does not even say that the man and the woman are married.
It only informs us that when a man and a woman have sex they should take
a bath afterwards.
Everyone
decides to interpret the Bible to their own favor.
Controlling people with guilt over their sexual behavior is just certain
people’s ways of trying to control others.
I believe in this day and age when a man is committed to a woman, he will
do everything responsible that he can for her, I am sure she will do the same
for him. It says the only time a woman is ritually unclean to have sex
with, is during her period. In all
the passages of the New Testament, there is “no statements” concerning what
sexual practices “are approved” in God’s site.
In all four Gospels, Jesus does not even address sexual matters.
You
would think something that causes so many people jealousy, envy, and stricter
religious laws, would be addressed by Christ. Jesus Christ is not worried about
sexual problems; he is worried about the state of our mind.
Were we kind to the sinner, did we knowingly reassure those who are
young? Does the older generation
practice a sexual morality~ of genuine love.
Homosexuals, heterosexuals, and celibacy all have a place in our society.
It is rape, child molestation, and cruel malicious sexual practices that
are immoral. We must be able to
determine what is permissible down here, so that it will be permissible up there
in heaven.
Thomas A. SUTOR
P.O. Box 2343
Lompoc CA 93438
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