Just responding
I'm a Christian and I do masterbate. The lust thing does not have to be part of your time. Onan sinned by not obeying God. and it does not mention that he masterbated to spill his seed. he could have pulled out before ejactulating. No where in the word does it condenm this act. nowhere. God pointed out a lot of sexual sins with great detail and he either failed to bring up the subject of masterbation, or it slipped his mind or it was not a sin, so why should he waste our time on it. If you have SCRIPTURE TO BACK YOUR CLAIM Then bring on the scripture and only the scripture to back your claim of masterbation being sin. Jesus used the word to defeat the enemy and did not get into opinion of how someone felt or what they think, and I beleive that we as Christians should feel the obligation to do the same since we are called to be like Christ.
The only thing we have to make a life stance is Gods word. if God did not feel that it was important enough of a subject to write about why should we have fear of God punishing us for doing it.
Now on the other hand, if you are using porn, or lust to feed your mind to bring about the act of masterbation then you are going against the word, for in the word it does say a lot about Coveting thy neighbors wife or anything that he has. It also says that to look upon a woman to lust for her is adultry. and it also says that fornacation is a sin, and to look upon and lust after a person and your not married to them, would consitute fornacation in your mind, but I will add that the word does not say a single person can commit fornacation in their mind, so therefore that can become another issue for a different thread.
Bring on the Scriptures and lets discuss the issue of Masterbation. try to with hold your false teachings that were giving to you from a person who did not teach you using the word as the stright edge for your growth.
Only the word of God is the issue when debating anything that is or is not a sin. So stick to the only book that has any value at all for the determination of right and wrong. Take me to the book.
Oh, a couple more things, suppose a guy had a vasectomy and no longer could spill his seed, and what about the woman who cannot spill her seed at all. And there is the thing of being unclean until evening, but just to have sex in the bonds of marriage made you unclean until evening, and to have an emissional discharge at night outside the camp would make you unclean, and to sit in a chair that a woman set in during her period would make you unclean and how about those people who sit in the pews at church and there was a woman on her period and she had already set in that same chair or pew at church, just before you had. well I'm about through trying to make a point as to "is masterbation a sin, or not a sin".
One more thing Pastors, Don't shake hands at church with a woman, she may be unclean and that would be the same as spilling your seed and you would become unclean, just drawing a picture to compare to.
I guess I'm just like the Pastor who says let me close with this, Is not the issue of the unclean thing more to do with Health and safety issues that God ordained to protect us till we discovered that germs were killing us, and now we have a greater understanding of why God placed all the restrictions upon his people. It was so they would live and not die from disease's that would be spread had they not observed the restrictions that God placed upon his people. Now all that I have said is open for disscussion, mainly because I have posted it on an open forum.