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The bible never did state that you had to be married in that scripture for it to be adultery. It's just says you've comitted adultery in your heart. If you lust on a woman that is married than that too is adultery. You do not have to be married.
John 3:20
For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
You will disagree from whichever standpoint someone comes from about masturbation being wrong or right if it does not benefit your lifestyle. See I had a question I asked in another forum about is it still a sin if you masturbate about a spouse. See I wondered this myself, cause this question is asked by alot of the youth in our congregation and my website.
You said masturbating isn't necessarily lust. it's sexual exploration. Yes we all do it when we are young, it's just how nature works. But adults become obsessed with it, they rent porns, magazines and it becomes a bondage of there lives. Now there are some I would say that maybe can possibly not think of one thing, while doing it cause they may feel thats the sin. I really don't know but to say what the bible says: Let every man work out his own salvation in fear and trembling. I stay away from it cause I would rather be safe than sorry. You said I have a problem with others masturbating, but its not the masturbation that concerns me gerani, its the things that come of it, and the price that there is to pay for sin. People come in here to ask questions and find out the truth, thats why we reply and try to help. You say I'm going to deep into this subject, but the title of this forum is "masturbating kills"
We are trying to help people that are asking these questions, not stir up more confusion.
Lust is a sin. Galatians Chapter 5 Laciviousness is a work of the flesh. It's a unfruitful work of the flesh. Things of the flesh reap corruption. If you keep yourself on things of the spirit, and doing things that bear fruit you will not do the things of the flesh.